Hunted

Examples

• Must he go wrong all through wi' this side, or must he go wrong all through wi' that, or else be hunted like a hare? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Rats were hunted eagerly; cowhide was gnawed and sawdust devoured to stay the pangs of hunger. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To be hunted and to die. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Hunted, she flies. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• You hunt as much as you are hunted, Anselmo said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Holmes hunted about among the grass and leaves like a retriever after a wounded bird. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Only last night we had news that the couple had been hunted down in Liverpool, and they prove to have no connection whatever with the matter in hand. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I might almost say heart-breaking, too, for of all the elusive, disappointing things one ever hunted for that was the worst. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He hunted and shot, and she humoured her children; and these were their only resources. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• And it means nothing to thee to be hunted then like a beast after this thing from which we derive no profit? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He is hunted down and miserable, and has only a poor thread of life in him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This is the inventor’s own statement, but it gives a very meagre notion of the many months’ experimenting in his workshop while he hunted for a suitable filament for his electric light. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For years the Turks and Byzantines had intermarried, and hunted in couples in strange by-paths of diplomacy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was those troops who hunted us until that night. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then we hunted for a barber-shop. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Bit by bit other fragments of this skull were hunted out from the quarry heaps until most of it could be pieced together. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I hunted him down. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He hunted and played and went about in his sunny world of gardens and groves and irrigated rice-fields. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I have hunted up the guide-books, and the gist of what they say is this: They are there, but how they got there is a mystery. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In the hunted air of the people there was yet some wild-beast thought of the possibility of turning at bay. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Collect what force you can, for there's game afoot that must be hunted hard, and will turn to bay. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Man was probably the hunted rather than the hunter. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If you make a disturbance here, we will be hunted out of these mountains. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• His father hunted every day and stopped to eat at the houses of peasants. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• When I got tired of waiting I went and hunted him up. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In 749 they accomplished a carefully prepared revolution, and the last of the Omayyad Caliphs was hunted down and slain in Egypt. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So you came over, the two of you, and hunted up the girl. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• He was a huntsman turned herdsman of the herds he once hunted. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The steadfast fear of the Roman Senate had hunted him from court to court. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The world was really a wilderness where one hunted and swam and rode. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .

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