hunting-grounds

For thou shalt turn thy face to where the midspring sun is wont to sink below the land and journey to this great chief's hunting-grounds.

The Sun of the Wolf 2010

No. They fill the land, they sweep away the buffalo, they plant seed on the prairie where I ran as a young boy, they make roads and railways over the hunting-grounds.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

It was agreed that on the following day at 12 o'clock, when the tide was going out, I should take my men and place the canoes in the bay, and let them float out on the tide across the ocean to the happy hunting-grounds:

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

The Indians said the rats understood Chinook, and that as they had no wish to accompany the dead across the ocean to the happy hunting-grounds, they took to the woods for safety.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

This division had been formed in 1866, with a view to controlling the Indians west of the Missouri River, they having become very restless and troublesome because of the building of the Pacific railroads through their hunting-grounds, and the encroachments of pioneers, who began settling in middle and western Kansas and eastern Colorado immediately after the war.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

You can't treat sensibly with a chief whose braves don't feel obliged to obey him; contrariwise, if you're an Indian (worse luck) there's no point in treating with a government which is eventually going to pinch your hunting-grounds to accommodate the white migration it can't control.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Then in a carriage we set out for the King's stand in the hunting-grounds, accompanied by a crowd of mounted game-keepers, who with great difficulty controlled the pack of sixty or seventy hounds, the dogs and keepers together almost driving me to distraction with their yelping and yelling.

She Makes Her Mouth Small & Round & Other Stories 2010

It is a fine set of buildings in a lovely setting on the edge of Cheltenham, named for St Edward the Confessor as this was once part of his hunting-grounds.

Archive 2009-03-01 Joanna Bogle 2009

It is a fine set of buildings in a lovely setting on the edge of Cheltenham, named for St Edward the Confessor as this was once part of his hunting-grounds.

A powerful piece of drama... Joanna Bogle 2009

He comes here only once a year — on his way up to his hunting-grounds. —

When We Dead Awaken 2008