For there was still a long, long, long papyrus scroll of a bill awaiting payment, for the big hunts in the Ethiopian forests!
Its food consists of all kinds of harmful insects for which it hunts without rest, and is therefore no less useful than the Titmouse.
It hunts beetles with great energy, and does not even recoil before the slug, still less before a small earthworm, which the lordly hedge-sparrow would not touch for all the world.
It also takes the little hares--in short, it is one of the most destructive birds in the fields which it frequents and hunts over untiringly.
It hunts alone and takes its food exclusively from the ground.
His aristocratic friends had temporarily deserted him, but the Hunts assisted him with the ready liberality of the impecunious.
Some malicious person told Haydon that the Hunts were celebrating his birthday, a compliment that struck him as natural and well deserved.
The beaters for the great hunts which took place in the Delta and the Fayoum were procured in the same fashion.
These hunts were among the favourite pleasures of the kings and the great lords.
So it wasn't long before he was enjoying buffalo hunts in the back pasture.
Mr. Burchell informs us that in a wild state this animalhunts in packs; though in general it hunts at night, it frequently pursues its prey by day, and as it is very fleet, none but the swiftest animals can escape it.
It hunts after Birds and their nests, and when pursued, feigns to be dead, and will endure great torture without showing any sign of vitality.
This beautiful, slender, crafty beast of prey, about the size of the Lynx, which is also abundantly found in the Spanish mountains, eagerly hunts the Bezoargoat.
It hollows out a burrow for itself in the sand to the depth of fifteen or twenty inches, where it hunts out worms on which it feeds, while it shelters itself from the jaws of the hungry Fishes which eagerly hunt for its delicate flesh.
He hunts about and hehunts about till he finds a lock of wool: then he takes it in his mouth, and down he goes to the river and turns his tail to the stream, and goes in backwards.
Young Raleigh proved a good fighter, fond of the hunts through the hills, and always ready for any wild expedition.
Whole poems, filled with battles and hunts and knightly adventures, he could recite from memory, and his eye for the color and trappings of history was so keen that the boys could see the very scenes before them.
The tiger-hunts were nearly as great a delight to him as they were to Warwick himself.
And who can say--perhaps he will find me even a bolder man than Gunga Singhai; and he will take me in his place on the hunts in the jungles.
But I should not have said violet eyes, for one was black as a thunder-cloud; she hunted yesterday and got dragged poor thing, and was bruised all over, but she was going about and hunts again in two or three days.
The penance in India is not so bad; there your Boy hunts your stud whilst you sit and cool.
Let that be as it may, he found Texas Jack a splendid hunter and guide, and Jack has been his guide on several hunts since.
The train moved on again and we had no other adventures, except several exciting buffalo hunts on the South Platte, near Plum Creek.
He tells us: "Story hunts have led me from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Arctic Circle to Mexico City.
ANDY HUNTS A north wind, whistling across the swamp, launched a savage attack against Andy's house, broke in half and snarled fiercely around either side.
Wordsworth, in the lines quoted at the head of this chapter, designates the personage who hunts with Gabriel's hounds as an "impious lord.
He has also a preference for certain tracks, over which hehunts again and again at fixed seasons, from which circumstance districts and villages in the old Saxon land received the name of Woden's way.
The wild boars which he hunts are stormy wind-clouds; the fair ladies the light white scudding vapours that seem to coquette with the squally wind.
Doubtless they think that everybody who hunts is of necessity a rich person, and conceive the idea that by fleecing the wealthy they will aid in blotting out the poverty of the land.
I mean, of course, fox-hunting, for I cannot attempt to cry down the many splendid and manly hunts of other descriptions in which the Americans carry off the palm.
Hail crystal fountains and fresh shades, Where no proud look invades, No busy worldling hunts away The sad retirer all the day!
The two Hunts thought that the serving of the sentence would be beneficial to the liberal cause, particularly in increasing the freedom of the press.
She lived for some time in the same house with the Hunts after they separated from Lord Byron, but the arrangement was an unhappy one.
In September the two families left for Genoa, travelling in separate parties and, on their arrival, settling in separate homes, the Hunts with Mrs. Shelley.
In Africa, at his command, gigantic hunts were organized, in which the entire local population was forced to take part.
A dog that hunts without being in the company of his master will never be a well trained dog.
A half dozen hunts will make an enthusiastic 'coon hunter of any able bodied man--and I might suggest that a half a thousand 'coon hunts will make an able bodied man out of any man.
In such places a slower dog is required as well as one that willingly hunts close to the shooter.
Almost all of Foote's compositions are written in the close harmony and limited range of vocal music, and he very rarely sweeps the keyboard in his piano compositions, or hunts out startling novelties in strictly pianistic effect.
He could make the same reply to such criticism that Schumann made; he thinks in strange rhythms and hunts curious effects, because his tastes are irrevocably so ordained.
During the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth days snake hunts take place; the hunter priests go out to capture living snakes.
Hunts there are more likely nowadays to be for rabbits than for larger game.
To the Indians of the Plains the important game was buffalo; and for buffalo two great hunts were made each year,--a summer and a winter hunt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hunts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
