Gamekeepers shoot a great many of these birds from the rough platforms in the woods erected to scatter food upon for the Pheasants.
I've ranged these woods myself all summer, and I have found out that gamekeepers are no safeguard against poachers.
In fact, I know that sometimes gamekeepers turn poachers themselves and make money selling what they have killed," he went on.
When the gamekeepers came back without you, I was more uneasy still; but I could not get away from my aunt for a few minutes.
Then I thought it was all over, especially as you had the gamekeepers with you; but some time ago I found that your servant had gone out, carrying a sword under his arm, and had come straight up this road.
Two gamekeepersturned up and although we got a few partridges Pete lost his net.
The poachers had vanished, but the others seemed to know there was somebody about, and since they were gamekeepers would be hard to deceive.
The clachan was a poor and untidy place, but he was tired, and as the gamekeepers would not suspect a neatly-dressed stranger, had thought of stopping another night.
He followed the road quietly, keeping in the shadow of a dyke, although he thought the gamekeepers had gone the other way, and on turning a corner came upon the poachers lurking behind a thorn bush.
Their disappearance was suspicious, and although he thought he could baffle the rural police, it would be different if he had gamekeepers to deal with.
Moreover, since the gamekeepers had mistaken Foster for Pete, the orders had nothing to do with the poaching.
You are a gentleman, and gentlemen do not go there; only gamekeepers and grooms--and women such as I.
Well, then, let him take time and look around him, and get house, and clothes, and food such as gamekeepers and grooms may have.
One of Lord Maxwell's gamekeepersand a 'helper,' a lad of seventeen, were killed last night in a fight with poachers.
That the gamekeepers destroyed were his servants, or practically his servants, made no difference to him whatever in his estimate of the crime itself.
Last year, in two cases, gamekeepers shot themselves rather than continue their work.
All the gamekeepers and several other men with guns were in hot pursuit of it for several days, until some one fatally wounded it, but it could not be found where it was supposed to have fallen.
I had told Radford of our plans and the gamekeepers were instructed to give us a wide berth.
Gamekeepers may not sell game except under the authority of their employer (1831, ss.
The Game Act 1831 gives lords of manors and privileged persons certain rights as to appointing gamekeepers with special powers to protect game within the district over which their rights extend (ss.
And even when we talked about gamekeepers catching poachers, and the poachers resisting, you kept it all dark.
And he had no right whatever to set snares in Lord Woodruff's covers, which, though they could not catch him, the gamekeepers were certain he did.
There were other poachers out last night, and we heard their guns, so of course we could not attempt anything, because the gamekeepers would all have been on the look-out.
I have read about fights between gamekeepers and poachers in books, and heard of them, and that; haven't you?
Should a water-bailiff, or one of the Llangorren gamekeepers chance to set eyes on them, they'd spoil at once.
I am well aware that, as this correspondent observes, "gamekeepers ought not to be shot at.
Are not the gamekeepers of gentlemen who have many miles of river subject to no surveillance on the part of the water bailiffs as likely to act illegally as the servants of the millowners?
Are not gamekeepersas likely to need looking after as mill-owners?
Twas a beat along the Trusham covers, and a constable had gone ill, and the gamekeepers were yowling about the poachers as usual, instead of catching 'em.
After the gamekeepers came the men whose duties were to pick up the dead and wounded victims and put them in the bags.
There are countless gamekeepers booted and spurred, with guns and game-bags on their shoulders, impatient to accompany you.
So Webb said nothing more, though his news had come from some of the gamekeepers who had seen you once and again in company with the young man.
One of the gamekeepers sent in word that he had seen the 'white lady' about in the woods this afternoon.
There was some suspicion of foul play on the part of one of the gamekeepers on the estate--some scandalous story about a girl in the village--but the coroner's jury returned an open verdict.
I am glad of it, Madame Bastien, for I just heard voices over by the lake and think some of the gamekeepers must be making their rounds," said the worthy farmer, stepping into the clearing.
We might give warning to the gamekeepers who are probably on the watch, for a bright moonlight night like this seems to have been made expressly for poachers.
A good book for gamekeepers on trapping is still a great desideratum.
Twenty-five to fifty thousand dollars per annum for the right to shoot over a few thousand acres of poorly timbered land, and a force of gamekeepers and other attendants to pay for besides.
Pheasants and partridges' eggs are bought to stock preserves; the gamekeepers who buy these eggs shut their eyes to the mode in which they have been procured.
He requires no almanac to tell him when the moon is to rise to-morrow, and he could give the gamekeepers lessons.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gamekeepers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
