game-bag

Across his shoulder hung a game-bag with a blackcock lying in it.

The Witch, and other stories 2004

The wounded bird would stop struggling in the game-bag, and no longer remind him of its existence.

Resurrection 2003

Renelde hoped she had got rid of him, when one day he stopped at the door, his duck-gun under his arm and his game-bag on his shoulder.

The Red Fairy Book 2003

She remained until evening racking her brain with every conceivable lying project, and had constantly before her eyes that imbecile with the game-bag.

Madame Bovary 2003

Every one who comes back from the chase with his game-bag well filled meets with a warm welcome in good society.

Father Goriot 2003

I laid my head on my game-bag, which served me as a pillow, and closed my eyes.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

He had only five birds in his game-bag when he walked out of the marsh towards the alders where he was to rejoin Stepan

Anna Karenina 2003

I started and shot a fair amount of game; my full game-bag cut my shoulder mercilessly; but already the evening glow had faded, and the cool shades of twilight were beginning to grow thicker, and to spread across the sky, which was still bright, though no longer lighted up by the rays of the setting sun, when I at last decided to turn back homewards.

A Sportsman's Sketches 2003

Morning after morning he could be seen tramping home for breakfast across the dewy fields, with a fair-fill game-bag and Dover's shotgun.

THE REJUVENATION OF MAJOR RATHBONE 1993

His dress of green cloth, his buckskin gaiters, and the gun slung across his shoulder might have caused him to be taken for a sportsman, had not the book that half protruded from his game-bag betrayed the dreamer, and proved that Arnold de Munster was less occupied with observing the track of wild game than in communing with himself.

Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester