wolf-hunt

One fine morning in the month of December, the duke left the chateau to take part in a wolf-hunt in the neighborhood.

The Honor of the Name �mile Gaboriau 2003

We had a great wolf-hunt, on Mount Lykabettos, following the tracks in new-fallen snow to their den in the high rocks above the pines.

The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962

The day began with splendid promise — the day of the wolf-hunt, of which no word had been spoken to her by Peter.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

She intended to salve her conscience at the wolf-hunt for her casual reception of his impetuous visit.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

Perhaps Miss Colebrooke told you of the day I met her in the wood, the day of the wolf-hunt.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

A wolf-hunt or a boar-hunt would not have excited me near so much.

The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Erckmann-Chatrian

His acquiescence in her refusal she had at first regarded as the turning of the worm; after the wolf-hunt, however, her meditations were more disturbing.

Judith of the Plains Marie Manning

The wolf-hunt, in fact, was mainly a young men's and boys 'affair, Putnam himself being only twenty-four at the time, and the wolf having been traced to her lair by young John Sharp, a boy of seventeen.

Old Put The Patriot Over, Frederick A 1904

Until the sixteenth century the forest seems to have been infested with wolves: we read that one, Sir Robert Plumpton, in Henry the Sixth's time, held land called "wolf-hunt land" at Mansfield Woodhouse, seven or eight miles away, by service of horn-blowing to chase or frighten away these creatures.

The Dukeries Murray Gilchrist 1892

As I was very anxious to see a wolf-hunt the Judge volunteered to get one up, and asked old man Prindle to assist, for the sake of his two big fighting dogs; though the very names of the latter, General Grant and

Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches Theodore Roosevelt 1888