tiger-hunting

In 1925 the Maharaja of Kotah asked Rolls Royce to tailor-make a tiger-hunting car for him.

The Tiger Car 2011

At the Carmel auction, Bonhams also will offer a 1979 BMW whose surface was painted by Frank Stella; a 1964 Lincoln Continental limousine built for the Pope; and a fire-red 1925 Rolls-Royce Phantom used by the former Maharaja of Kotah for tiger-hunting in Rajasthan.

Auctioning a Chic Old 'Ghost' Rachel Wolff 2011

Also, there was tiger-hunting in the northern mountains.

Chapter 15 2010

If youre going tiger-hunting, youd better carry a damned big stick.

The Edge of Madness Michael Dobbs 2008

And there's nothing quite like the magnificent maharajas, the viceroys, the durbars, the pig-sticking and tiger-hunting scenes, nor like waking in the Royal Imperial Suite to see hollow silver armchairs and a dramatic lithograph of an elephant fight.

Travel Mather, Victoria 2006

And there's nothing quite like the magnificent maharajas, the viceroys, the durbars, the pig-sticking and tiger-hunting scenes, nor like waking in the Royal Imperial Suite to see hollow silver armchairs and a dramatic lithograph of an elephant fight.

Travel Mather, Victoria 2006

The East and its wars, and its heroes, Assaye and Seringapatam (“and Lord Lake and Laswaree too,” calls out the Colonel greatly elated), tiger-hunting, palanquins, Juggernaut, elephants, the burning of widows — all passed before us in F.

The Newcomes 2006

I wish there were any tiger-hunting about here! we might go and kill a few before dinner.

Vanity Fair 2006

Mr. Jos told several of his tiger-hunting stories, finished the one about Miss Cutler and Lance the surgeon; helped Rebecca to everything on the table, and himself gobbled and drank a great deal.

Vanity Fair 2006

"Well, he rigged himself in tiger-hunting costume, went and bade the lady good-bye, who coolly wished him good sport, mounted a horse, and rode off to conquer a lady who, as a proof of her affection, had so cavalierly consigned him to the tender mercies of the wild beasts."

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien