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  • And in those far-back days its heights and its wild glens would be the hardest hunting-ground, the best refuge for deer and boar and wolf which even the grand hills around afforded.

    Archive 2009-04-01 2009

  • And in those far-back days its heights and its wild glens would be the hardest hunting-ground, the best refuge for deer and boar and wolf which even the grand hills around afforded.

    Mr. Gladstone 2009

  • Fearing the dark, into which he observed all men passed, he built beyond the dark a fairer region, a happier hunting-ground, a jollier and robuster feasting-hall and wassailing-place, and called it variously

    CHAPTER XIV 2010

  • They strode behind the horses, with the swift silent strides of men who are going home to the "Hills"; but even they, born in the "Hills"'and knowing them as a wolf-pack knows its hunting-ground, were awed by the gloom of Khyber-mouth ahead.

    In The Time Of Light dj barber 2010

  • Church of Ireland burial registers are a far better hunting-ground for Catholic entries.

    Burials « Cork Genealogist 2007

  • If we had some disputes about our hunting-ground they were generally settled without the shedding of much blood.

    "The More Things Change..." Red Jacket vs. the Christian Missionary JDsg 2006

  • A slow and guarded movement from the hunting-ground to the Castle of

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • If we had some disputes about our hunting-ground they were generally settled without the shedding of much blood.

    Archive 2006-02-01 JDsg 2006

  • This creek seems to be a hunting-ground of the natives, as we saw a great many summer worleys on its banks.

    The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

  • On the other hand, vary the hunting-ground in taking them out; which will give the pack a wider experience in hunting and their master a better knowledge of the country.

    On Hunting 2007

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