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Example sentences for "hunting expedition"

  • Take the trader away from the cares of business, as you sometimes may employ him as your guide in a hunting expedition, and you will find him a most interesting companion.

  • The mother and her child were alone in their wigwam, within sight and hearing of the Falls, and the father was absent on a hunting expedition.

  • The only family that I saw, was composed of a widow and her children, whose father had died two winters ago, while crossing the lake on his return from a hunting expedition.

  • Probably for fear of the Samoyeds, the surviving hunters did not go over the ice to the mainland, but remained on the desert island until by a fortunate accident they were rescued by some of their countrymen engaged in a hunting expedition.

  • Induced by this idea, and probably also by the wish to do something extraordinary, he undertook a hunting expedition thither.

  • McWhorter informs me that White, who was a prominent settler, was once with others on a hunting expedition, when they surprised a small party of Indians.

  • Erdmann relates, apparently after Rashiduddin, that Chinghiz was buried at the foot of a tree which had taken his fancy on a hunting expedition, and which he had then pointed out as the place where he desired to be interred.

  • But perhaps they were merely on a hunting expedition," said David, "or collecting water-melons.

  • I need scarcely say that I looked out anxiously all the day in the hope that Stanley or some of our other friends might pass in that direction on a hunting expedition.

  • I have but to mention the names of Hans and Hendrik Von Bloom, Groot Willem and Arend Van Wyk, to make known that The Young Yagers are again on a hunting expedition.

  • He saw them go off again in the direction they had come, equipped as for a hunting expedition, or for some distant journey.

  • Groot Willem was a hunter, and out on a hunting expedition.

  • Before doing so they invited us to accompany them on a hunting expedition, which they proposed making in a few days, after they had returned to their own lodges and obtained horses for the purpose.

  • He ran great risk of being retaken, but his necessity was urgent and he was aware that several families were absent on a hunting expedition at that time, whose huts were pretty certain to be unoccupied.

  • A six-ounce ball in one's spine is not a pleasant companion in a hunting expedition.

  • Yes; I have heard that he is alive and well, and is expected in every day from a hunting expedition.

  • I rode out with him several miles, as he was starting on his bone-hunting expedition, and I greatly enjoyed the ride.

  • On reaching the hut, they found its owner, as had been expected, sharpening his spears, and making other arrangements for a hunting expedition.

  • About this time the warriors of Tinglayan returned from a head-hunting expedition.

  • As was stated before, a skull is generally buried under the stones of the fawi court whenever the omens are such that a proposed head-hunting expedition is given up.

  • They invariably, too, take the heads of all killed on a head-hunting expedition.

  • We were on a hunting expedition to obtain some meat for our camp when your followers seized us and brought us here.

  • One of these, Conrad Vermack by name, whose chief characteristic was his intense hatred of the Zulus, had at one time possessed a farm of his own, but it had been destroyed by the savages while he was absent on a hunting expedition.

  • Rupert was always ready for a hunting expedition, and Crawford, who had come out to Africa under the belief that the chase would form one of his chief occupations, was eager to engage in the sport.

  • As soon as the game we had taken was exhausted, the king wanted us once more to start on a hunting expedition, but we had come to the resolution of going as seldom as possible, that we might avoid the expenditure of our ammunition.

  • We were pushing eagerly on through the forest, with less caution than usual, when we came suddenly upon a large body of armed blacks, who were out evidently on a hunting expedition.

  • He ran great risk of being retaken, but his necessity was urgent, and he was aware that several families were absent on a hunting expedition at that time whose huts were pretty certain to be unoccupied.


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