hunting-piece

Progressive inventions finally displaced this rifle in military use, but for the accuracy of the shot it has never been surpassed, and it is to-day a loved relic and a valued hunting-piece.

Sergeant York And His People

Louis Champney might have left him his hunting-piece, which as a boy he had coveted, just for the sake of his name --

Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

An army revolver, a great Western six-shooter, a fine little hunting-piece, a grim Ghoorka knife and an assegai, which I recognised from similar treasures on the barrack wall of an English friend of mine -- an infantry major -- one or two bayonets, a curious Japanese sword and a curved dagger whose workmanship was quite unknown to me, completed this decoration, which was the only one on the walls.

Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

Finally the snobbish string-orchestra from Boston, which played only the most exclusive music, began to tune up, and at length, after much mysterious wigwagging of signals to play, it played a hunting-piece.

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

Nick had not his father's watch with him, but Herbert Watrous carried a handsome gold hunting-piece, which was now consulted and showed it was nearly two o'clock.

Through Forest and Fire Wild-Woods Series No. 1 Edward Sylvester Ellis 1878

The subject was a hunting-piece; and as the leafy boughs of the forest-trees, branching over the tapestry, formed the predominant colour, the apartment had thence acquired its name of the Green Chamber.

The Antiquary 1845

The lower panes of the windows of this room were of stained glass, of vivid tints; but the upper panes were untinged, in order that the light should not be disturbed which fell through them upon two magnificent pictures; one a hunting-piece, by

Vivian Grey Benjamin Disraeli 1842

There was an old hunting-piece painted on a panel over one of the chimney-pieces; the figures were portraits of my ancestors.

Ruth Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837

Tabley-hall in Cheshire singularly rude and grotesque, though dated so late as 1619, containing a hunting-piece and the figures of Lucrece and

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

Even Titian never made a hunting-piece of a gusto so fresh and lusty, and so near the first ages of the world as this.

Characters of Shakespeare's Plays William Hazlitt 1804