Sportsman

Examples

• Take this sportsman and get back to your battalion. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• In this young sportsman, distinguished by a crisply curling auburn head and a bluff countenance, the Secretary descried the orphan. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• The shotgun and rifle, the familiar weapons of the sportsman and the foot-soldier, are not the ancestors of the cannon, as might be surmised. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I am a sportsman, I said. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton a mother. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I had never been a sportsman in my life; had scarcely ever gone in search of game, and rarely seen any when looking for it. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In Fig. 200 is shown a succession of instantaneous photographs of a sportsman shooting a glass ball, and the firing of a disappearing gun. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Sportsman, sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• When I had time to reflect upon the matter, I came to the conclusion that as a sportsman I was a failure, and went back to the house. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Of course it has the sort of excitement about it that the sportsman feels when he lies beside the water-course and waits for the big game. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• A marked tendency in shot guns in late years is toward a reduction in bore, many sportsmen now using a 28 gauge in preference to the old regulation 12. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Even sportsmen were glad to seize upon them, and wheels of sulkies, provided with the pneumatic tires, have enabled them to lower the record of trotting horses. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The little glass-knob insulators made seductive targets for ignorant sportsmen. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This weather will keep many sportsmen in the country. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Edited by Kelsey