hunting-song

Through the window should come a hunting-song from some rapid unapprehended life — a sound that shouts among the hills and dies away.

The Waves 2003

Peasants and lords with plaids on their shoulders were singing a hunting-song together; then a captain suddenly came on, who evoked the spirit of evil by lifting both his arms to heaven.

Madame Bovary 2003

Country squires, when kept indoors by stress of bad weather, will experience much relief in a hunting-song, while young gentlemen of the town will perhaps prefer an old English derry-down.

Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery Robert Means Lawrence

Time has almost failed to preserve even the hunting-song beginning finely --

Henry Fielding: a Memoir G. M. Godden

As I rode, I hummed a jovial hunting-song and touched Toby with the spur, for I was quite jubilant at having got rid of Dick and so well on the road to my adventure.

The Tory Maid Herbert Baird Stimpson

Loud talking, the coming and going of servants with trays, the crackle of wood fires in which whole logs were burning, and, as Nikky and his escort entered, the roaring chorus of a hunting-song filled the ears.

Long Live the King! Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917

He might be a rather entertaining sort of poet; telling a smoking-room story in blank verse or writing a hunting-song in the Spenserian stanza; giving a realistic analysis of infanticide in a series of triolets; or proving the truth of Immortality in a long string of limericks.

The Victorian Age in Literature 1905

Again resounded the echo of the shades, merry as a hunting-song in the wood which is sung by a happy throng of children: "Blessed be her memory!"

Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

Keyork's eyes brightened suddenly, and a peal of laughter, deep and rich, broke from his sturdy breast and rolled long echoes through the dismal lane, musical as a hunting-song heard among great trees in winter.

The Witch of Prague 1881

Well, Ladies and Gentlemen, I'll sing you a good old-fashioned hunting-song, and I'll ask you to join me in the Chorus.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 15, 1892 Various 1876