stag-hunting

The Countess awoke to hear a real bugle-note, or rather the combined breath of many bugles, sounding not the mort. but the jolly reveille, to remind the inmates of the Castle of Kenilworth that the pleasures of the day were to commence with a magnificent stag-hunting in the neighbouring Chase.

Kenilworth 2004

The stag-hunting is commenced, and the prince looks that I should attend him more frequently.

The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

His death, on July 15, 1711, was the result of a fall while stag-hunting.

The Journal to Stella 2003

She cares little about the result of the chase, but she likes boar-hunting better than stag-hunting, because the former furnishes her table with black puddings and boars 'heads.

The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

Then he drank some more brandywine for his tooth, and I told him about stag-hunting in the Highlands, and he said he'd like to try that sometime, and was I a good shot with a bow?

Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

"I had rather a long lecture on the intricacies of stag-hunting."

the deer leap Grimes, Martha 1985

But stag-hunting elsewhere than on Exmoor is virtually an archaic imitation of a sport.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery

Gentlemen think it right to affect a contempt for stag-hunting, and many a battle have I had with Cousin John when he has provoked me by

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

You know, Kate, it's a political appointment, and they generally give it to somebody who hates hunting, and particularly stag-hunting, more than anything; so, of course, he wisely comes as late and goes home as early as he can.

Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville

Porlock village itself is a quiet, charming spot which, in spite of the temptation of visitors who come here in considerable numbers in the autumn, when stag-hunting on Exmoor is in season, keeps most of its old-world simplicity, and has not much "modernized" itself.

Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland F. J. Widgery