lion-hunting

• “She can stick around the ranch and get half a dozen columns out of any of half a dozen subjects, while the writer chap can get the dope on lion-hunting ....”

  CHAPTER XXXI

• “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

• “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

• “But how can I go on when everybody is sniggering and thinking me a lion-hunting snob?”

  The Silver Spoon

• “Hanley wrote very well and it was an excellent book and very inspiring when you were in the lion-hunting business.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hemingway on Hunting

• “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

• “But he was pretty sure had spotted James Galway, and he stood to like any lion-hunting sightseer.”

  Put On By Cunning

• “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

• “Sancho Panza, at one moment urged on by the glory, and at the next held back by the prospect of the hardships, of lion-hunting in”

  Ireland and the Home Rule Movement

• “The second, and the only sportsmanlike way of lion-hunting, is by tracking him in the open.”

  The Red-Blooded Heroes of the Frontier

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