Hunting Sentence Examples

I enjoyed hunting with my father.

He'd grudgingly gone on the hunting trip, not wanting to leave Claire behind by herself.

So how did you learn all your hunting skills?

Our hunting trip was the first time in months, wasn't it?

Beetles and larvae are frequently carnivorous in habit, hunting for small insects under stones, or pursuing the soft-skinned grubs of beetles and flies that bore in woody stems or succulent roots.

We have been hunting here in the forest.

Jonny's probably hunting now.

My father was most loving and indulgent, devoted to his home, seldom leaving us, except in the hunting season.

Long after dark we reached home and found the cottage empty; the family were all out hunting for us.

They left the bull where it lay, reasoning that if they removed it, the bear might go hunting fresh meat.

Josh, Bill and Alex had gone hunting for them the day after the attack, but they lost the trail in some rocks on her back 40 acres.

That's the other issue I've been dealing with, when not hunting you down to make you cry.

No more hunting, tracking, targeting, hurting, killing, or anything else.

If I'm doing the hunting, you're eating demons.

Dogs are kept by the savages for hunting.

They neither plant nor have they any manufactures except their rude bamboo and rattan vessels, the fish and game traps which they set with much skill, and the bows, blow-pipes and bamboo spears with which they and the produce of their hunting and fishing.

He died in a hunting accident on the 25th of August 1699.

He began to ask about his enemies who had been hunting him.

Having straightened his coat and fastened on his hunting knives and horn, he mounted his good, sleek, well-fed, and comfortable horse, Viflyanka, which was turning gray, like himself.

I'm probably gonna start hunting down Others today.

Exmoor is noted for its stag hunting.

Capture begins among the lower tribes with the hand, without devices, developing knack and skill in seizing, pursuing, climbing, swimming, and maiming without weapons; and proceeds to gathering with devices that take the place of the hand in dipping, digging, hooking and grasping; weapons for striking, whether clubs, missiles or projectiles; edged weapons of capture, which were rare in America; piercing devices for capture, in lances, barbed spears, harpoons and arrows; traps for enclosing, arresting and killing, such as pens, cages, pits, pen-falls, nets, hooks, nooses, clutches, adhesives, deadfalls, impalers, knife traps and poisons; animals consciously and unconsciously aiding in capture; fire in the form of torches, beacons, burning out and smoking out; poisons and asphyxiators; the accessories to hunting, including such changes in food, dress, shelter, travelling, packing, mechanical tools and intellectual apparatus as demanded by these arts.

The patroon received his estate in perpetual inheritance and had the exclusive right of hunting and fishing upon it.

In autumn he gave himself up to hunting with the same business-like seriousness--leaving home for a month, or even two, with his hunt.

His Geheimes Jagdbuch, containing about 2500 words, is a treatise purporting to teach his grandsons the art of hunting.

In Ireland, in Cromwell's time, wolves were particularly troublesome, and said to be increasing in numbers, so that special measures were taken for their destruction, such as the offering of large rewards for their heads, and the prohibition (in 1652) of the exportation of "wolf-dogs," the large dogs used for hunting the wolves.

In one courtyard of this temple are deposited the celebrated ten stone drums which bear poetical inscriptions commemorative of the hunting expeditions of King Suan (827-781 B.C.), in whose reign they are believed, though erroneously, to have been cut; and in another stands a series of stone tablets on which are inscribed the names of all those who have obtained the highest literary degree of Tsin-shi for the last five centuries.

The German boarhound is one of the largest races of dogs, originally used in Germany and Denmark for hunting boars or deer, but now employed chiefly as watchdogs.

Alice was followed (in the "Lewis Carroll" series) by Phantasmagoria, in 1869; Through the Looking-Glass, in 1871; The Hunting of the Snark (1876); Rhyme and Reason (1883); A Tangled Tale (1885); and Sylvie and Bruno (in two parts, 1889 and 1893).

The success of procryptic coloration depends, however, very largely upon stillness, and the instinct to keep stationary without moving a limb is a marked characteristic of all spiders unless engaged in hunting or fleeing from imminent danger.

Among the animals are the puma, manatee (sea cow), alligator and crocodile, but the number of these has been greatly diminished by hunting.

In order to spare Gutrune's feelings it is arranged that his death shall appear as an accident in a hunting party.

Hagenau dates from the beginning of the 12th century, and owes its origin to the erection of a hunting lodge by the dukes of Swabia.

On the site of the hunting lodge he founded an imperial palace, in which were preserved the jewelled imperial crown, sceptre, imperial globe, and sword of Charlemagne.

Their favourite pursuits were fighting, either against a common enemy or among themselves, hunting, hawking and listening to the minstrels who celebrated their exploits.

Each of the inspectorates is divided into districts, each district having, in addition to the chief settlement or coloni, several outlying posts and Eskimo hunting stations, each presided over by an udligger, who is responsible to the colonibestyrer, or superintendent of the district.

The Yalmal peninsula, where they find great facilities for hunting, is especially venerated by the Ob Ostiak Samoyedes, and there they have one of their chief idols, Khese.

By Matilda, who died in Normandy on the 3rd of November 1083, William had four sons, Robert, duke of Normandy, Richard, who was killed whilst hunting, and the future kings, William II.

But before taking further steps he retired to Versailles, then a hunting lodge, and there, listening to two of Richelieu's friends, Claude de Saint-Simon, father of the memoir writer, and Cardinal La Valette, sent for Richelieu in the evening, and while the salons of the Luxembourg were full of expectant courtiers the king was reassuring the cardinal of his continued favour and support.

On returning to the Vet, Potgieter learned that a hunting party of Boers which had crossed the Vaal had been attacked by the Matabele, who had also killed Boer women and children.

For the feet the sandal (o-avbaXov, Ti&Xov) was the usual wear; for hunting and travelling high boots were worn.

A high hunting boot was called compagus.

They were distinguished by their mode of hunting, climbing a tree to survey their game, and then pursuing it with trained horses and dogs.

The Indians in hunting them employ the grison (Galictis vittata), a member of the weasel family, which is trained to enter the crevices of the rocks where the chinchillas lie concealed during the day.

They lived chiefly by hunting and fishing.

These reliefs represent both sacred subjects and scenes of war and hunting, mixed with grotesque monsters, such as specially delighted the rude, vigorous nature of the Lombards; they are all richly decorative in effect, though strange and unskilful in detail.

Francis showed an even greater love for violent exercises, such as hunting, which was his ruling passion, and tennis, and for tournaments, masquerades and amusements of all kinds.

Hunting, tennis, jewelry and his gallantry were the chief preoccupations of his life.

It is hunted by the Arabs for its flesh and to test the speed of their horses and greyhounds; it is during these hunting parties that the young are captured for menagerie purposes.

He died on the 5th of November 1370 from the effects of an injury received while hunting.

The females have a wonderful power of finding their burrows on returning from their hunting expeditions.

He entrusted the government to the Jesuits; refused either to summon the Cortes or to marry, although the Portuguese crown would otherwise pass to a foreigner, and devoted himself wholly to hunting, martial exercises and the severest forms of asceticism.

His health was uniformly good, owing perhaps to his moderation in eating and drinking, and to his love for hunting and swimming.

The king shared his fondness for hunting and rapidly advanced him in favour.

Protests follow against hunting and fishing rights, restrictions on wood-cutting, and excessive demands made on peasants.

Melton is the centre of a celebrated hunting district, in connexion with which there are large stables in the town.

Finally, in this connexion, the first steps in domestication, beginning with the improvement of natural corrals or spawning ground, and hunting with trained dogs and animals.

Labour organizations for hunting, communal hunt and migrations had to do with the animal world.

Myths, folk-lore, hunting charms, fetishes, superstitions and customs were based on the same idea.

The Dene (Tinneh) myths resembled those of the Eskimo, and all the hunting tribes of eastern Canada and United States and the Mississippi valley have a mythology based upon their zootechny and their totemism.

The religious concep tions of the fishing tribes on the Pacific coast between Mount St Elias and the Columbia river are worked out by Boas; the transformation from the hunting to the agricultural mode of life was accompanied by changes in belief and worship quite as radical.

The old apparatus of hunting and fishing is quite primitive.

He published Presidential Problems (New York, 1904), made up in part of lectures at Princeton University, and Fishing and Hunting Sketches (1906).

It may be added that an ancient gold goblet depicts the hunting and taming of the wild aurochs.

The natives cultivate maize, plantains, bananas, pineapples, limes, pepper, cotton, &c., and live easily on the products of their gardens, with occasional help from fishing and hunting.

His African Game Trails, the record of his scientific hunting expedition in Africa in 1909-10, is much more than a narrative of adventures on a wild continent.

Clowes; The Rough Riders (1899); Oliver Cromwell (1901); the following works on hunting and natural history, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1886), Ranch Life and Hunting Trail (1888), The Wilderness Hunter (1893), Big Game Hunting in the Rockies and on the Plains (1899; a republication of Hinting Trips of a Ranchman and The Wilderness Hunter), The Deer Family (1902), with other authors, and African Game Trails (1910); and the essays, American Ideals (2 vols., 1897) and The Strenuous Life (1900); and State Papers and Addresses (1905) and African and European Addresses (1910).

The " zodiac of labours " was replaced in French castles and hotels by a " zodiac of pleasures," in which hunting, hawking, fishing and dancing were substituted for hoeing, planting, reaping and ploughing.8 It is curious to find the same sequence of symbols employed for the same decorative purposes in India as in Europe.

After he succeeded to the throne in 1788 his one serious occupation was hunting.

It is now found in greatest abundance in Norway, Russia and Siberia, where hunting the bear is a favourite sport, and where, when dead, its remains are highly valued.

Mark, hunting in the forest, comes upon them sleeping in a cave, and as Tristan, who knows that the king is in the neighbourhood, has placed his sword between them, is convinced of their innocence.

William had, on the 8th of October, after his victory was assured, gone to his hunting seat at Dieren.

In 1763 the Kentucky country was claimed by the Cherokees as a part of their hunting grounds, by the Six Nations (Iroquois) as a part of their western conquests, and by Virginia as a part of the territory granted to her by her charter of 1609, although it was actually inhabited only by a few Chickasaws near the Mississippi river and by a small tribe of Shawnees in the north, opposite what is now Portsmouth, Ohio.

Other industries of a desultory character include the collection of archil, or Spanish moss, on the western side of the Californian peninsula, hunting herons for their plumes and alligators for their skins, honey extraction (commonly wild honey), and the gathering of cochineal and ni-in insects.

Whether this feature or a cult of the hunting type was the primary form, is so far an open question.

The lands included in the township of Litchfield (originally called Bantam) were bought from the Indians in1715-1716for 115, the Indians reserving a certain part for hunting.

When hunting antelope (prongbuck) and deer the coyotes spread out their pack into a wide circle, endeavouring to surround their game and keep it running inside their ring until exhausted.

There are different styles of riding adapted to the different purposes for which horses are ridden - on the road, in the school, hunting, racing, steeple-chasing and in the cavalry service - just as there are different horses more suitable by conformation, breeding and training for each.

When a person has become a fair road rider he has made some progress towards being a hunting man.

Few self-taught riders attain to excellence; they may keep a good place in hunting, if possessed of plenty of courage, and mounted on a bold and not too tender-mouthed horse, but they never will be riders in the proper sense of the word.

For practical purposes the chief difference between a park seat and a hunting seat consists in the shortening of the stirrups some two or three holes.

The seat of the hunting man is the most important of any connected with amusement; he must sit firm, so as not to be thrown off when his horse leaps, or makes a mistake, and he must be able to save his horse under all circumstances, and to make as much of him as possible.

As with road riding, so with hunting, the actual length of the stirrups will depend a good deal upon the shape and action of the horse, but the nature of the animal and the peculiarities of the country ridden over will also have something to do with their adjustment.

Nothing but actual practice with hounds can teach a man how to ride where all kinds of going and obstacles of various sorts, natural and artificial, have to be encountered in a day's hunting.

The experience of a single day's hunting will teach the novice that gates are far oftener opened than jumped; it is therefore necessary that a hunter should be handy at opening them.

In most details the nearer a hunting man approaches to a steeple-chase jockey the better; but in the matter of the seat it must be remembered that a jockey's exertions last but a few minutes, while none can tell when the hunting man may finish his day's work; the jockey can therefore ride with more absolute grip during his race than the rider to hounds.

They make incomparable guides for fishing, hunting and surveying parties, on which they will cheerfully undergo the greatest hardships, though tending to shrink from regular employment in cities or on farms.

They lie entangled in a vast net of sea-weed; are the resort of innumerable birds, and used to be largely frequented by seals and sea-otters, which, however, have been almost completely driven away by unregulated hunting.

On behalf of the committee appointed to deal with feudal rights, he presented to the Convention reports on the seignorial rights which were subject to compensation, on hunting and fishing rights, forestry, and kindred subjects.

During one of these, in 1195, Alexius, the emperor's brother, taking advantage of the latter's absence from camp on a hunting expedition, proclaimed himself emperor, and was readily recognised by the soldiers.

To the north are the vine-clad hills of the LOssnitz commanding views of the valley of the Elbe from Dresden to Meissen; behind them, on an island in a lake, is the castle of Moritzburg, the hunting box of the king of Saxony.

While hunting for its food the bird makes a continual sniffing sound through the nostrils, which are placed at the extremity of the upper mandible.

It is clear from the frequent references to dogs and hawks in the charters that hunting and falconry were keenly pursued by the kings and their retinues.

Large herds of geese and pigeons are reared, while hunting and fishing constitute also important resources.

It contained an ancient abbey and a hunting château belonging to the dukes of Brabant.

The knights wore a collar of golden hunting horns, whence the order was also known as the Order of the Horn.

Avoiding the fashionable and luxurious gymnasia, he devoted himself to military studies, hunting and border forays.

In August the conspirators were netted, and Mary was arrested at the gate of Tixall Park, whither Paulet had taken her under pretence of a hunting party.

The gain of the Milanese in 18J9 by the future king of Italy (1861) meant that Italy then won the valley of Livigno (between the Upper Engadine and Bormio), which is the only important bit it holds on the nonItalian slope of the Alps, besides the county of Tenda (obtained in 1575, and not lost in 1860), with the heads of certain glens in the Maritime Alps, reserved in 1860 for reasons connected with hunting.

In the 18th century wolves still roamed the country in such large numbers that hunting parties were organized against them; now they are unknown.

Busily engaged in secret negotiations with France, he had retired to his hunting seat at Dieren, when he fell ill with smallpox on the 27th of October.

The supply of some of the most valuable, such as sable, silver and natural black fox, sea otter and ermine, which are all taken from animals of a more or less shy nature, does very gradually decrease with persistent hunting and the encroachment of man upon the districts where they live, but the climate of these vast regions is so cold and inhospitable that the probabilities of man ever permanently inhabiting them in numbers sufficient to scare away or exterminate the fur-bearing wild animals is unlikely.

It was while hunting near Lake Mdlar that the news of the Stockholm massacre was brought to him by a peasant fresh from the capital, who told him, at the same time, that a price had been set upon his head.

The chapel contains the tombs of abbot John Hamilton and of the children of the 1st lord Paisley, and the recumbent effigy of Marjory, daughter of Robert Bruce, who married Walter, the Steward, and was killed while hunting at Knock Hill between Renfrew and Paisley (1316).

Though not strictly gregarious, lions appear to be sociable towards their own species, and often are found in small troops, sometimes consisting of a pair of old ones with their nearly fullgrown cubs, but occasionally of adults of the same sex; and there seerp.s to be evidence that several lions will associate for the purpose of hunting upon a preconcerted plan.

In the summer of 45 he was assassinated while hunting, and Gotarzes became king again.

They asked for a renewal of their ancient rights of fishing and hunting freely, for a speedier method of obtaining justice, and for the removal of new and heavy burdens.

But the way in which they usually diverge just over and in front of the eye has suggested the more probable idea, that they serve to guard these organs from thorns and spines while hunting for fallen fruits among the tangled thickets of rattans and other spiny plants.

Northern Ontario is still a valuable fur-bearing and hunting country, moose, caribou, fox, bear, otter, mink and skunk being found in large quantities.

The only inhabitants are a few wild tribes who live by hunting and collecting jungle produce.

This is a totally different thing from mere hunting for inscriptions, statues or other portable objects which will present a greater or less value in themselves even when torn from their context.

Hunting, Fishing, &c.In the desert hunting was carried on by hunters with bows and arrows, dogs and nets to check the game.

Together with hunting and fishing it is illustrated in many of the Memoirs of the Archaeological Survey of the same society.

The general include tools for striking, slicing and scraping; the special tools are for fighting, hunting, agriculture, building and thread-work.

Hunting Weapons.The forked lance of flint was at first wide with stTght hollow (73) from S.D.

He was released on bail, and in February 1683, after the flight and death of Shaftesbury, he openly broke the implied conditions of his bail by paying a third visit to Chichester with Lord Grey and others on pretence of a hunting expedition.

The Gilyaks in the north support themselves by fishing and hunting.

According to Herodotus, Cyrus devoted the revenue of four great towns to meet the expenses of his hunting establishments.

Hunting scenes are frequently represented in ancient works of art, especially the boar-hunt, and also that of the hare.

Besides the noose and the net, the arrow, the dart and the hunting pole or venabulum were frequently employed.

The lion was occasionally trained as a hunting animal instead of the dog.

The partiality for the chase which the ancient Egyptians manifested was shared by the Assyrians and Babylonians, as is shown by the frequency with which hunting scenes are depicted on the walls of their temples and palaces; it is even said that their 1 See on this whole subject ch.

That the Romans had borrowed some things in the art of hunting from the Gauls may be inferred from the name canis gallicus (Spanish galgo) for a greyhound, which is to be met with both in Ovid and Martial; also in the words (canis) vertragus and segusius, both of Celtic origin.'

According to Strabo (p. 200) the Britons also bred dogs well adapted for hunting purposes.

The term "hunting" has come to be applied specially to the pursuit of such quarries as the stag or fox, or to following an artificially laid scent, with horse and hound.

At an early period stag hunting was a favourite recreation with English royalty.

Stag hunting begins on the 12th of August, and ends on the 8th of October; there is then a cessation until the end of the month, when the hounds are unkennelled for hind hunting, which continues up to Christmas; it begins again about Ladyday, and lasts till the 10th of May.

William Twici, indeed, who was huntsman-in-chief to Edward Fox II., and who wrote in Norman French a treatise on hunting, 6 mentions the fox as a beast of venery, but obviously as an altogether inferior object of sport.

The precise date of the establishment of the first English pack of hounds kept entirely for fox hunting cannot be accurately fixed.

Since fox hunting first commenced, however, the system of the sport has been much changed.

At the present day, the woodlands are neither so large nor so numerous as they formerly were, while there are many more gorse covers; therefore, instead of hunting the drag up to it, a much quicker way of getting to work is to find a fox in his kennel; and, the hour of the meeting being later, the fox is not likely to be gorged with food, and so unable to take care of himself at the pace at which the modern foxhound travels.

Cub hunting carried out on a proper principle is one of the secrets of a successful season.

As soon as the young entry have recovered from the operation of "rounding," arrangements for cub hunting begin.

So far as the hounds are concerned, the object of cub hunting is to teach them their duty; it is a dress rehearsal of the November business.

Hare hunting, which must not be confounded with Coursing, is an excellent school both for men and for horses.

Hare hunting is essentially a quiet amusement; no hallooing at hounds nor whip-cracking should be permitted; nor should the field make any noise when a hare is found, for, being a timid animal, she might be headed into the hounds' mouths.

There are the same difficulties to be contended with as in hunting with the ordinary harrier, and a very few days' running will teach the youthful sportsman that he cannot run at the same pace over sound ground and over a deep ploughed field, up hill and down, or along and across furrows.

Otter hunting, which is less practised now than formerly, begins just as all other hunting is drawing to a close.

When railways were first started in England dismal prophecies were made that the end of hunting would speedily be brought about.

Complaints are often raised about the cruelty of what is called tame stag hunting, and it became a special subject of criticism that a pack should still be kept at the Royal kennels at Ascot (it was abolished in 1901) and hunted by the Master of the Buckhounds; but it is the constant endeavour of all masters and hunt servants to prevent the infliction of any injury on the deer.

Several packs which hunt within these limits are not supposed, however, to belong to the "Shires," whereas a district of the Belvoir country is in Lincolnshire, and to hunt with the Belvoir is certainly understood to be hunting in the "Shires."

It is generally considered that the cream of the sport lies here, but with many of the packs which are generally described as "provincial" equally good hunting may be obtained.

But it must by no means be supposed that every man who goes out hunting desires to gallop at a great pace and to jump formidable obstacles, or indeed any obstacles at all.

Exceptional animals naturally do exceptional things, and a famous hound called Potentate is recorded by the 8th duke of Beaufort to have done notable service in the hunting field for eleven seasons.

It is his business to look after the pack which is not hunting, to walk them out, to prepare the food for the hunting pack so that it is ready when they return, and in the spring to attend to the wants of the matrons and whelps.

A kennel huntsman proper may be described as the man who does duty when the master hunts his own hounds, undertaking all the responsibilities of the huntsman except actually hunting the pack.

The mysteries of scent are certainly no better comprehended now than they were more than a hundred years ago when Peter Beckford wrote his Thoughts on Hunting.

There are many ways in which a whipper-in who is not intelligent and alert may spoil sport; indeed, the duke of Beaufort went so far as to declare that "in his experience, with very few exceptions, nine days out of ten that the whipper-in goes out hunting he does more harm than good."

With regard to the expenses of hunting, it is calculated that a master of hounds should be prepared to spend at the rate of £500 a year for every day in the week that his hounds are supposed to hunt.

Taking one thing with another, this is probably rather under than over the mark, and the cost of hunting three days a week, if the thing be really properly done, will most likely be nearer £ 2000 than £1500.

Few people realize what enormous sums of money are annually distributed in connexion with hunting.

This conversion, represented as having been brought about while he was hunting on Good Friday by a miraculous appearance of a stag bearing between his horns a cross or crucifix surrounded with rays of light, has frequently been made the subject of artistic treatment.

Brought up on the borderland between civilization and barbarism, constantly trekking, fighting and hunting, his education was necessarily of the most primitive character.

When not fighting natives in those early days Kruger was engaged in distant hunting excursions which took him as far north as the Zambezi.

Every year thousands spend the summer months in the wilderness, where cabins, hunting lodges, villas and hotels are numerous.

In the Adirondacks are some of the best hunting and fishing grounds in the eastern United States.

Owing to the restricted period allowed for hunting, deer and small game are abundant, and the brooks, rivers, ponds and lakes are well stocked with trout and black bass.

The freedom with which he fraternized with his Protestant neighbours called forth the rebuke of his bishop (George Hay), and ultimately, for hunting and for occasionally attending the parish church of Cullen, where one of his friends was minister, he was deprived of his charge and forbidden the exercise of ecclesiastical functions within the diocese.

The cheetah or hunting leopard (Cynaelurus jubatus) must be carefully distinguished from the leopard proper.

This animal appears to be a native only of the Deccan, where it is trained for hunting the antelope.

It may be true that he was fond of hunting, but he was a peace-loving, generous prince.

Walid therefore retired to the country, and passed his time there in hunting, cultivating poetry, music and the like, waiting with impatience for the death of Hisham and planning vengeance on all those whom he suspected of having opposed him.

Some attribute his death to an accident met with in hunting; others believe him to have been poisoned.

Yahya, who had just taken leave of him after a day's hunting, was arrested, taken to the castle of Harun, and beheaded.

A keen huntsman, and passionately fond of the sea, he extended his yachting and hunting excursions as far east as Syria and as far north as Spitsbergen.

They have greatly increased since hunting them for their hides and oil ceased to be profitable, and thousands sometimes gather on the Farallones, off the Golden Gate.

The Indians saw with alarm the movement of so many whites through their hunting grounds and became increasingly unfriendly.

He delighted in hunting and the reading of history, was zealous in his attention to public business, and his private life was unimpeachable.

Carloman met his death while hunting on the 12th of December 884.

Lawrence inherited the estate at Hunting Creek, on the Potomac,_ later known as Mount Vernon, and George the estate on the Rappahannock, nearly opposite Fredericksburg, where his father usually lived.

His diaries show a minutely methodical conduct of business, generous indulgence in hunting, comparatively little reading and a wide acquaintance with the leading men of the colonies, but no marked indications of what is usually considered to be "greatness."

But Job himself, or whosoever was the justest judge, by such hunting for matters against him as hath been used against me, may for a time seem foul, specially in a time when greatness is the mark and accusation is the game."

Howel, son of Cadell, commonly known as Howel Dda the Good, is ever celebrated in Welsh history as the framer, or rather the codifier, of the ancient laws of his country, which were promulgated to the people at his hunting lodge, Ty Gwyn ar Taf, near the modern Whitland.

The formation of clans and tribes, the transitions from the hunting to the pastoral life, and from the pastoral to the agricultural - the struggle with forest and swamp, the clearings for settlement, the protection of the dwelling-place, the safety of flocks and herds, the production of corn, - the migration of peoples, the founding of colonies, the processes of conquest, fusion, and political union - have all reacted on the elaboration of the higher polytheisms, before bards and poets, priesthoods and theological speculators, began to systematize and regulate the relations of the gods.

For this purpose the tiger will leave its retreat in the dense jungle, proceed to the neighbourhood of a village or gowrie, where cattle feed, and during the night steal on and strike down a bullock, drag it into a secluded place, and then remain near the "murrie" or "kill," for several days, until it has eaten it, when it will proceed in search of a further supply, and, having found good hunting ground in the vicinity of a village or gowrie, continue its ravages, destroying one or two cows or buffaloes a week.

The government keddah establishment from Dacca captures large numbers of elephants in the province, and the right of hunting is also sold by auction to private bidders.

There is no distinct mention of Belper till 1296, when the manor was held by Edmund Crouchback, earl of Lancaster, who is said to have enclosed a park and built a hunting seat, to which, from its situation, he gave the name Beaurepaire.

After the death of Clotaire in 670 he became ruler of the three Frankish kingdoms, Austrasia, Neustria and Burgundy, but soon quarrelled with some supporters in Neustria, and was assassinated whilst hunting.

Their children are brought up in company with the princes at the gates of the king, instructed in the handling of arms, in riding and hunting, and introduced to the service of the state and the knowledge of the law, as well as the commandments of religion.

His death (29th of August 886) was due to a fever contracted in consequence of a serious accident in hunting.

In the valley of the Talas river he encounters the great khan of the Turks on a hunting party, - a rencontre which it is interesting to compare with the visit of Zemarchus to the great khan Dizabul, sixty years before, in the same region.

They dwell in communal houses, and live chiefly by hunting.

He was the reputed founder of Buthrotum and Chaonia, named after a brother or companion whom he had accidentally slain while hunting.

On the 23rd, Novibazar was occupied, and the work of hunting down the dispersed enemy and their Arnaut auxiliaries began.

Fishing (quantities of salmon enter the rivers) and hunting are their chief occupations.

Their chief occupations are agriculture (about 3,500,000 acres under culture), cattle breeding, bee-keeping, mining, gathering of cedar-nuts and hunting.

Hunting and fishing are resorted to, and the skins and furs are tanned.

The native name "Bauchi," which is of great antiquity, signifies the "Land of Slaves," and from the earliest times the uplands which now form the principal portion of the province have been the hunting ground of the slave-raider, while the hill fastnesses have offered defensible refuge to the population.

In the centre was the serai, occupied by the king and his retinue, with an extension towards the north, opening on a large inner court, containing the public reception rooms, elaborately decorated with sculptures and historical inscriptions, representing scenes of hunting, worship, feasts, battles, and the like.

A great hunting match was organized at Danchurch in Warwickshire by Digby, to which large numbers of the Roman Catholic gentry were invited, who were to join the plot after the successful accomplishment of the explosion of the 5th of November, the day fixed for the opening of parliament, and get possession of the princess Elizabeth, then residing in the neighbourhood; while Percy was to seize the infant prince Charles and bring him on horseback to their meeting-place.

The set of friends with whom he chiefly associated at Oxford were sometimes named, on account of their exceptionally decorous conduct, the "Bethel Union"; but he was by no means averse to amusements, and specially delighted in hurdle jumping and hunting.

In addition to agriculture, which (with the exception of the Usuri Cossacks) is sufficient to supply their needs and usually to leave a certain surplus, they"carry on extensive cattle and horse breeding, vine culture in Caucasia, fishing on the Don, the Ural, and the Caspian, hunting, bee-culture, &c. The extraction of coal, gold and other minerals which are found on their territories is mostly rented to strangers, who also own most factories.

He expired rather suddenly while hunting at Troki in Lithuania in June 1492.

The principal occupations of the natives have always been fishing and hunting, and the women weave basketry of exquisite fineness.

The walrus is now found mainly far N.; the sea otter, once fairly common throughout the Aleutian district, is now rarely found even on the remoter islands; the fur seal, whose habitat is the Pribilof Islands in Bering Sea, ha .s been considerably reduced in numbers by pelagic hunting.

The range of her influence is most varied, extending to war, athletic games, the tending of cattle, hunting, the assembly of the people and the law-courts.

In the simple arts of broiling and roasting meat, the use of hides and furs for covering, the plaiting of mats and baskets, the devices of hunting, trapping and fishing, the pleasure taken in personal ornament, the touches of artistic decoration on objects of daily use, the savage differs in degree but not in kind from the civilized man.

He was passionately fond of hunting.

Proclaimed of age on the 17th of August 1563, he continued to be absorbed in his fantasies and his hunting, and submitted docilely to the authority of his mother.

He left a work on hunting, Traite de la chasse royale, which was published in 1625, and reprinted in 1859.

The small island of Tortuga (north-west of Hispaniola) was seized for this purpose in 1630, converted into a magazine for the goods of the rivals, and made their headquarters, Santo Domingo itself still continuing their hunting ground.

Most of the Indians are engaged in farming and stock-raising, but a few still derive their maintenance mainly from fishing and hunting.

They are a shy, harmless, simple folk, living chiefly by hunting; they lime birds, catch fish by poisoning the water, and are skilled in getting wild honey; they have bows with iron-pointed arrows and breed hunting dogs.

Karlsruhe takes its name from Karl Wilhelm, margrave of Baden, who, owing to disputes with the citizens of Durlach, erected here in 1715 a hunting seat, around which the town has been built.

While hunting with some of his godless companions in the New Forest, he was struck by an arrow, unskilfully shot by one of the party.

In the countryside the insurrection was accompanied by wholesale burnings of manor-rolls, the hunting down of unpopular bailiffs and landlords, and a special crusade against the commissioners of the poll-tax and the justices who had been enforcing the Statute of Laborers.

In every direction English influence penetrated, and Englishmen before 1603 might be found in every quarter of the globe, following Drakes lead into the Pacific, painfully breaking the ice in search of a north-east or a north-west passage, hunting for slaves in the wilds of Africa, journeying in caravans across the steppes of Russia into central Asia, bargaining with the Turks on the shores of the Golden Horn, or with the Greeks in the Levant, laying the foundations of the East India Company, or of the colonies of Virginia and Newfoundland.

The abundance of game made the region between the lakes and the Mississippi a favourite hunting ground of the Indians, and later a productive field for the trapper and fur trader.

In the wild state they never defend themselves, and if approached from different points, according to the Indian fashion of hunting, get completely bewildered and fall an easy prey.

He was educated by the centaur Cheiron, who taught him the art of healing and hunting.

It stood in a more retired position, and was conveniently situated for excursions into the country and hunting expeditions.

The estate, originally called "Little Hunting Creek Plantation," was devised in 1676 by John Washington (the first of the family in America) to his son, Lawrence, who in turn devised it to his daughter, Mildred, by whom (and her husband Roger Gregory) it was deeded in 1726 to her brother Augustine (George Washington's father).

Their occupation was hunting and war; their arms the bow, spear, axe, a half shield, nearly in the shape of a crescent, called pelta, and in early art a helmet, the model before the Greek mind having apparently been the goddess Athena.

Some years earlier, Gay,' admitting Hutcheson's proof of the actual disinterestedness of moral and benevolent impulses, had maintained that these (like the desires of knowledge or fame, the delight of reading, hunting and planting, &c.) were derived from self-love by " the power of association."

He describes various kinds of game, methods of hunting, the best breeds of horses and dogs.

Amulets are worn to ensure success in buying, selling, hunting, fishing and in war, as well as for protection against evil.

The Croats brought with them their primitive tribal institutions, organized on a basis partly military, partly patriarchal, and identical with the Zhupanates of the Serbs (see Servia); agriculture, war and hunting were their chief pursuits.

The main portion therefore of the inhabitants of the forest zone are agriculturists, save only the nomad Pygmies, who live in the inmost recesses of the forest and support themselves by hunting the game with which it abounds.

His first proceedings had indeed given no We promise of the moderation and prudence afterwards to characterize him; he had succeeded in exasperating all parties; the officials of his father, the well-served, whom he dismissed in favor of inferiors like Jean Balue, Oliver le Daim and Tristan Lermite; the clergy, by abrogating the Pragmatic Sanction; the university of Paris, by his ill-treatment of it; and the nobles, whom he deprived of their hunting rights, among them being those whom Charles VII.

Versailles was -chosen because of the hunting!

Petherick sought for ivory only, but those who followed him soon found that slave-raiding was more profitable than elephant hunting.

According to the Stud-Book, " Darley's Arabian was brought over by a brother of Mr barley of Yorkshire, who, being an agent in merchandise abroad, became member of a hunting club, by which means he acquired interest to procure this horse."

Other tribes were of less importance; and tribes of other families - with the exception of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes of the Algonquian family, whose permanent hunting grounds embraced the foot-hill country of the West - were of negligible importance, being only roamers within the borders of the state.

Chandragupta himself is described as living in barbaric splendour, appearing in public only to hear causes, offer sacrifice, or to go on military and hunting expeditions, and withal so fearful of assassination that he never slept two nights running in the same room.

This idea that material representation involves a profanation of divine personages, while disallowing all religious art which goes beyond scroll-work, spirals, flourishes and geometrical designs, yet admits to the full of secular art; and accordingly the iconoclastic emperors replaced the holy pictures in churches with frescoes of hunting scenes, and covered their palaces with garden scenes where men were plucking fruit and birds singing amid the foliage.

The siege, however, was protracted, and finally, in February 1248, during the absence of the emperor on a hunting expedition, was brought to an end by a sudden sortie of the men of Parma, who stormed the imperial camp. The disaster was complete.

Alarmed by the number of the sectaries and the extent of their influence, Pope Martin V., who had encouraged the Observants, and particularly Bernardine of Siena, fulminated two bulls (1418 and 1421) against the heretics, and entrusted different legates with the task of hunting them down.

The inhabitants of the northern districts - nomad tribes of Samoyedes, Zyryans, Lapps, and the Finnish tribes of Karelians and Chudes - support themselves by fishing and hunting.

The 16th Aventiure, describing this hunt and the murder of Siegfried, is perhaps the most powerful scene in all medieval epic. To heighten the effect of the tragic climax the poet begins with a description of the hunting, and describes the high spirits of Siegfried, who captures a wild boar, rides back with it to camp, and there lets it loose to the great discomfiture of the cooks.

Eastern Tennessee was recognized as a common hunting ground by the Cherokees, Creeks, Miamis and other Indian tribes, and the Iroquois of New York also claimed a considerable portion by right of conquest.

In all sorts of bodily exercises, as swinging, wrestling, dancing, riding and hunting, they take great pleasure.

The cities are too large for my hunting and the towns so open a stranger stands out like neon sign on a starless night.

Intent on hunting down his first real lead since things started going wrong, Gabe called open a portal to return to his underworld and the shopping mall-sized palace in the center of the living forest.

From all indications, they were people who went rabbit hunting with machine guns, blazing away at any obstacle in their path with total disregard for the subtleties of life, like seeking out records under assumed names and following their prey from afar.

She was a brilliant hacker and familiar enough with the underground internet forums to find him new hunting grounds and blood exchanges.

Hunting with hounds is a highly contentious subject of great interest to people who live in rural areas.

The detrimental consequences of a ban could be offset by other forms of hunting, which do not involve live quarry.

It was long the residence of John Peel, yeoman, whose hunting proclivity was well known throughout the whole north country.

The Reuters report that the police were hunting for four other accomplices, has been roundly rejected by the police themselves.

There's still the part about hunting down secret agents which is probably comparable to any FPS game around today.

There will be a range of prizes for the winners including a shotgun, fly fishing outfit and a hunting air rifle package.

Jackals are opportunistic feeders who are equally at home hunting small antelope or scavenging at larger kills.

These animals are generally arboreal in habit, hunting in the trees and forest canopy.

Police are hunting three white youths in connection with a racially aggravated assault on an Asian man in Leamington.

Apart from those against hunting we have suffered a backlash from the death of Michael Hill on February 9th 1991.

Field sport campaigners claim Labor MPs pressing for a total hunting ban are acting out of class hatred rather than concern for animals.

Walls are light and creamy, banquettes are checkered hunting pink, candles and silver and linen are everywhere.

Hunting A stampeding herd of deer, driven by beaters are confronted by a line of bowmen.

One was a remarkable effort by a dedicated team showing wolves hunting wild bison in the remotest regions of northern Canada.

The forest was declared a hunting reserve in 1541 for the protection of European bison.

The actual art of hunting a bloodhound is of importance to those who actually hunt them.

Wild boar hunting We are able to offer wild boar hunting in our sister castle in Austria which also offers driven game shooting.

These early hunting sticks differ from returning boomerangs in being larger and having only a shallow angle giving a long low elliptical trajectory.

He still retains a very strong hunting instinct, something which has sadly been bred out of other terrier breeds.

Thus, a moving bait allows captive cheetahs to perform ' natural-looking ' hunting in captivity.

The original Bradford shield featured a red and blue per pale field bearing an engrailed gold chevron between three hunting horns.

They rape any female chimp they come across, murder her baby, form a gang to go hunting monkeys.

Excessive hunting greatly reduced the number of wild chinchillas.

I hope the Lords can promote a sensible compromise over hunting.

We were moored near a little copse, which was good for hunting.

The Act governs hunting wild mammals with dogs in England and Wales, and bans all hare coursing.

We then decided to drive the farm loop in the hope of perhaps finding a late hunting coyote but sadly this was unsuccessful.

For interested parties a full hunting expedition can be arranged Archery Choose between the traditional longbow and the more powerful crossbow.

Her husband banned fox hunting so she is above criticism of the nut cutlet brigade.

The main purpose of roe deer hunting is to provide sport.

The Club was founded in 1786 and temporarily disbanded in 1861 when hunting ceased in the Country.

Despite the hunting ban, they're firmly looking at a relegation dogfight.

There is a specific provision against treasure hunting, illicit excavation and dealing in antiquities (Article 51 - 52 ).

The Gardeners ' Atlas The on-line way to buy a regularly updated atlas to take on your UK garden hunting expeditions.

Sixty years later, due to over hunting by humans, they were declared extinct.

Trafalgar Square used to be the site of the Royal Mews, where hunting falcons were kept.

The local farriers are very dependent on hunting for their income.

You are better off hunting them out at a good fishmongers.

The site is teeming with fish, which use the numerous overhangs as shelter between their hunting forays out on the reef.

Total employment in hunting foxes with dogs is therefore 214 FTEs.

This empty land is now the preserve of the hunting and shooting fraternity, and also of the walker and climber.

The area is also popular with the hunting fraternity.

Food was mainly obtained by hunting gazelle, supplemented on a very small scale with (probably ), wild grain.

I'll look forward to my night out hunting ghosts.

Motifs include religious figures, hunting scenes in which the king has the central place, and mythical animals like the winged griffin.

Regent's Park One of Henry VIII's hunting grounds.

The effect of hunting on willow grouse Lagopus lagopus movements.

The enamel carried a scene of hunting dogs chasing a hare.

What did the Inquiry conclude about this game of hunting hares?

They make harpoons for hunting fish, pins for sewing up leather shoes, toggles for their fur-lined leather ` parka ' coats.

A female marsh harrier was hunting over Combe Haven Valley.

We also saw brown hawkers with their attractive coppery wings hunting along the taller vegetation of the river bank.

Wounded healers tend to talk intrusively about their own problems in the consulting room - like Robin Williams in " Good Will Hunting " .

Over hunting, which caused the extinction of the larger herbivores, led also to the loss of open ground.

What about the clear and obvious cruelty caused by making a pastime of hunting hinds running with their calves?

Pat Robertson, ' Hunting " humongous " wild hogs, ' The State (Sunday November 10, 1996 ).

Whoever was hunting the hounds then had to keep asking the foot followers to keep well back.

Firstly there is the occasion when Esau comes home from hunting starving hungry.

But small little-known groups of hunt saboteurs and campaigners are also doing their bit to rid us of fox hunt saboteurs and campaigners are also doing their bit to rid us of fox hunting.

The hunting with dogs ban has not stopped foxes being killed and has increased violence against hunt sabatours and the police look away.

When they are hunting divers hunters usually rely on large numbers of decoys to attract the ducks.

Do you think the police will be able to enforce the new law banning hunting with dogs?

Finding a job The Internet has revolutionized job hunting.

This type of hunting was considered more genteel than the fast pace of hunting on horseback.

It is clear that on moral and ethical grounds there is not too much objection to canned hunting.

Labor's promises, from banning fox hunting to not arming oppressive regimes, have proved to be lies.

We have no comment to make on the likely impact of greater participation in drag hunting or bloodhound hunting on the rural economy.

The Beagle - another athletic hare hunting hound yet only sixteen inches high.

Lindsay Hill As a professional huntsman for nearly 25 years, I feel I am well qualified to remark on the benefits of hunting.

The Saami people's rights to land and water for reindeer husbandry, and for hunting and fishing are regulated by law.

A well aimed kick from them can smash the skull of a hunting dog or inflict serious injury on a lion.

Hunting people have the biggest vested interest in the survival of the species.

For a long time, the laws applicable to hunting with hounds have remained very laconic.

Although hunting great apes for meat is illegal in many countries, enforcing the law is not easy, especially during times of conflict.

Situated on the banks of the river, the former 17th century hunting lodge has been transformed into an award winning restaurant.

Well, the bill is intended to'Make Provision about hunting wild mammals with dogs.

And it equates to the hunter-gatherer who got sustenance by hunting mastodons and gathering berries.

The typical period over which mink hunting is active, in the summer months, is also the least effective time for controlling mink.

Very rarely does a days mink hunting conclude without a mink hunting conclude without a mink being caught.

At least six of these packs subsequently switched to hunting mink.

Perhaps he is out hunting moose, or whatever it is they do to pass the time in Canada.

Sometimes you may see groups of men carrying ancient muskets hunting game to supplement their diet.

In the fields on the far side watched a barn owl hunting the other evening while taking the mutts for a walk.

Q13 If hunting does not wound, how about a deer recently disturbed by hounds dying of post capture myopathy?