Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A park or tract of land stocked with game preserved for sport.
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Examples
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The "game-preserve" is neatly printed in colors, and the birds and wild animals are well worth hunting.
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"Humph! The devil's game-preserve, you mean," Bunsen suddenly broke in.
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Your rich man, known to the trade as a great orderer of books, is like the owner of the great game-preserve, where the sport is heavy butchery; there is none of the real zest of the hunter of the wilderness to be had within his gates.
The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton
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Moreover, when a war expedition against a hostile tribe has failed, and no scalps have been secured to ensure the returning warriors a welcome to their village, the Rio Colorado is a kind of game-preserve, where the Yutas have a certainty of filling their bag if their other covers draw blank.
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I think they imagined their great game-preserve a kind of Spanish gold-mine safer hidden from public ken, and they held their meetings with an air of mystery that pirates might have worn.
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Very recently a bear was killed near October Mountain, upon Mr. Whitney's extensive game-preserve.
Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear Clarence Hawkes 1901
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Do you imagine they'd let a town grow up on three sides of their precious game-preserve?
The Younger Set 1899
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Majesty, Francis Joseph, and flow away northward, through the rest of his game-preserve, into the Traunsee.
Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness Henry Van Dyke 1892
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The remoteness of this lofty region, together with its mountain fastnesses, deep forests, and sequestered glens, makes it an almost perfect game-preserve.
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-- I trust you have laid in a good stock of provisions, for I see you intend making this consecrated grove your game-preserve, and will be roaming here in quest of sport for some time to come.
Hindu literature : Comprising The Book of good counsels, Nala and Damayanti, The Ramayana, and Sakoontala Kalidasa 1866
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