10 examples of shikaris in sentences

Mr. Younghusband very kindly gave us a letter to his neighbor, the Rajah of Kahrigur, who furnished us with shikaris, beaters, bullock carts, two ponies and an elephant.

She was ever swift with her tongue and liked not the ways of shikaris.

The Santals are very keen shikaris, and go regularly to hunt armed with bows and arrows and a few guns.

During one of the shoots, the shikaris (native sportsmen) brought news that a rhino had been seen in a certain jungle.

" For there are certain native hunters in India that are known, far and wide, as the Shikaris; and possibly she meant in her tolerance that her little son was merely a born huntsman.

Ahmed Bot, however, was of opinion that all sahibs who wanted sport required two shikaris, so I imagined that while I was to be engaged with one in pursuit of bara singh, the other would employ himself in "rounding up" a few tigers for the next day's sport in another direction.

So, while the shikaris unceasingly spied for bear, for nine mortal hours Jane and I camped out on a remarkably hard and unyielding stone, varied by other seats equally tiresome.

the shikaris burst upon us in a state of frenzied excitement to announce the bear!

Emerging from the pines, we crossed a grassy slope covered with tall primulas (P. denticulata) of varying shades of mauve and lilac, and sat down for a bit among the flowers while the shikaris looked for game.

This may be so, but Kashmir shikaris have remarkably vivid imaginations.

10 examples of  shikaris  in sentences