fox-hunters

Mr. Beckett had a party of Yorkshire squires, chiefly fox-hunters and lovers of an outdoor life, at Kirkstall Grange when he heard that Oscar Wilde was in the neighbouring town of Leeds.

Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions 2007

Like a great many fox-hunters, he was very sharp as long as he was in his own country; but as soon as they get out of it they lose their heads; and so the lobster, so to speak, lost his tail.

The Water Babies 2007

Even fox-hunters, smokers, herbalists and others a long list of the specific targets of this euphemistically-named "nanny-state" do not realise the extent of the attack - in which all the incumbent parties have colluded - on the sovereignty, laws and customs of the people, as supposedly expressed, and defended, by the Crown in Parliament.

Archive 2006-03-01 Thatsnews 2006

No such character here as our fox-hunters; and they have expressed great surprise when I informed them that some men in Ireland of one thousand pounds a year spend their whole lives in running after a hare, and drinking to be drunk.

The Life of Oliver Goldsmith 2004

The shaggy body of primeval man, with all his appetites and aptitudes, seemed to have risen from his grave under the barrows, where the great stones were piled on top of him, where once he sacrificed rams and did homage to the rising sun, to carouse with tippling fox-hunters of the time of George the Fourth.

The Common Reader, Second Series 2004

He used indeed a very coarse expression, which need not be here inserted; as fox-hunters, who alone will understand it, will easily suggest it to themselves.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

The huntsman, who was not far off, running towards the squire, bestowed upon his head such a memento with his pole, as made the landscape dance before his eyes; and, in a twinkling he was surrounded by all the fox-hunters, who plied their whips about his ears with infinite agility.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

Of course we couldn't do that, and decamped straight into the immediate pub pleasure -- only to find that Sandi and brother-boy Andy were there anyway, having correctly anticipated what we'd and having found that the hotel was full of gin-swilling fox-hunters.

Long walks and fresh air jinty 2004

The fox-hunters, perceiving his disaster, exclaimed, in the phrase and accent of the chase, “Stole away! stole away!” and with hideous vociferation, joined in the sylvan chorus which the hunters halloo when the hounds are at fault.

The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves 2004

When he overtook him, he was so much enraged at the counterfeit, that he attacked the baboon whip in hand, and, in all probability, would have sacrificed him to his resentment, had not he been prevented by the other fox-hunters.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004