146 Verbs to Use for the Word hunting

" Next morning they shook off their lethargy and went seal-hunting.

'The English (said he) are the only nation who ride hard a-hunting.

The Bobbsey twins treasure hunting.

He mounted this loafing fellow on one of his horses three days a week and had him follow the hunt and report to him whenever they killed, and if he could view the fox so much the better, and then he made him describe it minutely, so he should know if it were his Silvia.

Of course they immediately started a thorough hunt for the strangely missing weapon, even the limping Jerry seeming as deeply interested in the search as any one of his comrades.

Thomas viscount Aimwell and his friend Archer (the two beaux), having run through all their money, set out fortune-hunting, and come to Lichfield as "master and man."

Eagerly and hopefully they began the hunt in the bitter cold.

In the afternoon my man and I took our first hunt.

We are dawdling our time away very idly and pleasantly at a Mrs. Leishman's, Chase, Enfield, where, if you come a-hunting, we can give you cold meat and a tankard.

According to Bruce it was now time to continue the hunt for Thor, but a change for the worse in Langdon's knee broke in upon their plans.

One does not need two glances at your face to know that you would not enjoy fox-hunting, that you would enjoy book-learning and "refined repose," as they are pleased to call it.

Russians used Indians more, gave them hunting and fishing, and only took part of the skins.

Giles Peram was shivering from his sudden plunge and begged to go to camp, so Hugh Price, sympathizing with him, gave up the man hunt, and returned to the nearest camp of royalists.

They had merely exchanged one scene of royal display for another; and when, upon the morrow, they were invited to attend a hunt which had been organized in their honour, their surprise and gratification were too evident for concealment.

So they pursued The hunt till eve was nigh.

As it would have been useless to follow them, we rode back to the station; and thus ended my eventful bear-hunt.

We finished our hunt, and went back to the post loaded down with plenty of buffalo meat, and received the compliments of the General for our little fight.

Thus, in the face of the drudgery and poverty of the competitive system, Carlyle proposed, with the grim satire of Swift's "Modest Proposal," to organize an annual hunt in which successful people should shoot the unfortunate, and to use the game for the support of the army and navy.

After we had eaten a lunch which was spread for us, we resumed the hunt.

Louis, as a matter of course, adopted his advice; and, after several different townsBlois, Tours, Cambrai, and Compiègne among themhad been proposed as the place of meeting, he himself decided in favor of Versailles,[20] as that which would afford him the best hunting while the session lasted.

He borrowed Little Gray, who was fleet enough for the wildest of the runaways, and then he at once began his horse hunting.

Once he ceased hunting and became man's plate-licker, the Rubicon was crossed.

Not unfrequently we would meet in the zillah of a morning, when we would invariably make for the nearest patch of grass or jungle, and enjoy a hunt together.

They moved around from place to place, wherever they could find the best hunting and fishing.

Game Preserves where they can do it in luxurious leisure; fox hunts with their pack of hunters and hounds in full cry after one poor defenceless fox, and battle-fields where they tear each other limb from limb with Gatling gun and shells; and yet we call ourselves honorable gentlemen, and talk of the delights of the chase and the glories of war!

146 Verbs to Use for the Word  hunting