"Hunter" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I'll have to work tooth and nail at the forges. You'll have to bring home the bacon, do the cooking and so on, and see what you can find along the line of edible roots, grains, fruits, and what-not. Sort of reverse the Indian idea—you be the hunter and I'll keep the ...
— Spacehounds of IPC • Edward Elmer Smith
... "our eyes just refuse to see things at which we are looking until the voice within reveals. The eyes of a hunter could make no mistake about such ...
— The Victim - A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis • Thomas Dixon
... reason to complain, if another, more alert, passes him, and takes possession. What is the reason of this difference, but that immobility, not being natural to the hare, but the effect of industry, forms in that case a strong relation with the hunter, which is wanting in ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume
... Murray, who went up the Nile with us and shot crocodiles and other small game, being a mighty hunter, as I told you in my letters," answered Rose gaily, though ill pleased at the little discovery just then, for this had been one of the narrow escapes her ...
— Rose in Bloom - A Sequel to "Eight Cousins" • Louisa May Alcott
... and fag before me, I entered readily into my father's views; the more especially, as in them was comprehended the preliminary visit to Germany, the land of my early visions, where I hoped to be on more intimate terms than ever with my old acquaintances, the Spirit of the Brocken, the Wild Hunter, &c. &c.; or, mayhap, to carry to practical results in the heart of the Black Forest the lessons of natural freedom I had so largely acquired from Schiller. My father's object in sending me to Heidelberg was not, I believe, quite ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 350, December 1844 • Various
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