Hunting
['hʌntɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Hunt
(n.) The pursuit of game or of wild animals.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Chase, HUNT.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream of hunting, you will struggle for the unattainable. If you dream that you hunt game and find it, you will overcome obstacles and gain your desires. See Gain.
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Examples
- Those have other work than hunting guerillas. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- But now, at hunting and hawking, and each idle sport of wood and river, who so prompt as the Templars in all these fond vanities? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The men and women in the Cave Colony suddenly found that one bright-eyed young fellow, with a little straighter forehead than the others, was beating them all at hunting. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- She knew stories about every one, which she retailed to their friends at the pitch of her voice; and she was always hunting for a husband for Eunice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He had himself picked up the loaded hunting-crop, which was his favourite weapon. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Baxter's the keeper, and when he finds strange dogs hunting about, he takes and shoots 'em. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- He removed his hunting knife from its sheath and handed it to her hilt first, again motioning her into the bower. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Many of the leading officers had brought their families to witness the hunting down of the Macedonian invaders. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They believe in life after death, where the spirit is surrounded with the pleasures of the happy hunting grounds. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The Transparent reigning family took too to the waters, or retired to their hunting lodges. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- His war-horse--his hunting hound, are dearer to him than the despised Jewess! Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- We know that most of the early races used it for hunting and in war. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why we all go out hunting together and, when I have rode a few miles, I wink at the rest and fall down from my horse, or affect to hurt my ankle. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At his side was the hunting knife of his unknown sire, and across his shoulders the coils of his own long rope. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Up went the hunting knife, and then the woman turned to one side and soon a guttural ah proclaimed that her search had at last been successful. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
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