They dreaded to see black shapes stalking in the dim grey night under the waxing moon veiled by thin cloud; but they saw nothing, and heard nothing, but the sigh of withering leaves and grass.

Only one or two of the burning roads had oblong shapes stalking along them.

They dreaded the dark hours, and kept watch in pairs by night, expecting at any time to see black shapes stalking in the grey night, dimly lit by the cloud-veiled moon; but they saw nothing, and heard no sound but the sigh of withered leaves and grass.

Yet to see those dark shapes stalking along his own path spoiled his homecoming.

And there were wolves as well, gaunt grey shapes stalking through the trees all around her, their eyes shining.