shikari

• “The shikari — mysterious, wizened, in loose turbans —”

  Boy

• “Up there, on the top floor, was not only as dangerous a man as I'd ever met, but a top-hole shikari, a night-bird, a trained and skilful hunter who could catch the sound of grass growing.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “For even as Moran brought his right hand to the stock of his rifle, and settled into his aim, my faltering trigger-finger got a fit of the shakes; my aim wavered, and I paused, sweating - and in that moment I learned that, old as I was, I was a better shikari than Moran would ever be.”

  Fictionaut: Watershed

• “I'd had him before, and he was a damned good shikari - they all are, of course.”

  Fictionaut: Fiancée

• “Then, ibn Wahshiyah showed up tangled up in Yeats' imagery in A Vision, although I have to admit that by this time I and my faithful shikari Google had been back-tracking ibn Wahshiyah, not wishing to fall victim to his snares once again.”

  Kenneth Hite's Journal

• “But he was, after all, an old shikari and a senior diplomat.”

  The Complete Federation Of The Hub

• “Except in the pursuit of various classes of flying animals, a shikari would not, for example, be permitted the use of an aircar other than as a means of simple transportation.”

  The Complete Federation Of The Hub

• “Native bearers, beaters, guides, a shikari who knows the country.”

  Operation Luna

• “I wonder that my very simple stratagem could deceive so old a shikari," said Holmes.”

  The Adventure of the Empty House

• “I'd had him before, and he was a damned good shikari — they all are, of course.”

  Flashman In The Great Game

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