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lion-hunting - definition and meaning
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CHAPTER XXXI 2010
My Advice: try not to fall in love with one of those rugged lumber-jack ax-toting, lion-hunting , baby-makin' menonite men.
Adventures in Bolivia Gina 2008
But his jealousy and doubt of me were not so strong as to divert him from a purpose of his, — a mania for African lion-hunting , which he dignified by calling it a scheme of geographical discovery; for he was inordinately anxious to make a name for himself in that field.
Two on a Tower 2006
But how can I go on when everybody is sniggering and thinking me a lion-hunting snob?
The Silver Spoon 2004
Hanley wrote very well and it was an excellent book and very inspiring when you were in the lion-hunting business.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
Hanley wrote very well and it was an excellent book and very inspiring when you were in the lion-hunting business.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
Hanley wrote very well and it was an excellent book and very inspiring when you were in the lion-hunting business.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
They might be as large as any of the biggest lion-hunting mastiffs, but you simply couldn't leave them alone for any length of time without them getting themselves into some kind of trouble.
The White Gryphon Lackey, Mercedes 1995
But he was pretty sure had spotted James Galway, and he stood to like any lion-hunting sightseer.
Put On By Cunning Rendell, Ruth, 1930- 1981
It sounded as if there were going to be something in the nice, easy assignment he was getting that would make him wish he'd gone lion-hunting in Darkest Africa instead.
Out Like a Light Randall Garrett 1957
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