I could not bear the thought that your loveliness would leave you a ready prey to gossip or malice.

She pressed Phoebe's hand, and floated away, leaving Phoebe a prey to doubt and curiosity.

He had always been there when I needed him, and I would not leave him alone, a prey to age and infirmity.

They went out together, and Tommy was left behind, a prey to conflicting emotions.

He went out, leaving Mr. McEachern a prey to many and varied emotions.

And so they went, leaving Beatrice a prey to melancholy forebodings.

She wanted to desert him, to leave him a prey to the open, with the unclean dogs of the darkness setting on to devour him.

By degrees the chamber was deserted, and Mazarin was left alone, a prey to suffering which he could no longer dissemble.

But the Darters would never leave a lone and wounded prey.

So saying, he departed, leaving the poor young woman a prey to the saddest thoughts.