pot-hunter

Egnor would probably make a great pot-hunter because all he understands is that ancient people made things that we can pick up today.

The Antikythera Mechanism And Intelligent Design: A Response To Egnor Christopher O'Brien 2007

Egnor would probably make a great pot-hunter because all he understands is that ancient people made things that we can pick up today.

Archive 2007-05-01 Christopher O'Brien 2007

"Well"I never thought I'd see the day when the police needed the advice of an old pot-hunter.

Burning Water Lackey, Mercedes 1989

I had got under a cloud, and "my house-hold gods lie shivered around me;" but, to become a pot-hunter!

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

It is but yesterday, when I felt that to be "a pot-hunter" [1] was the lowest step of degradation; and I was quite right, for then I lived at home; my father had an admirable kennel of pointers and spaniels, a couple of well-stocked manors, and a zealous keeper.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

That night the watchful guardians of the Wild sent the mule-deer to Harry the man who had been a pot-hunter.

Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy

He was a pot-hunter, like myself, and would instantly swallow anything I shot, could he but reach it first.

Confessions of an Etonian I. E. M.

Entering the democratic era, Jules Grévy seems to have been only a pot-hunter of the _bourgeoisie_, who practiced the art only because he wanted a jugged hare for his dinner, or again simply to kill time.

Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

"Behold!" they would say, "Tell is quite the pot-hunter," meaning by the last word a man who always went in for every prize, and always won it.

William Tell Told Again 1928

All the same I want you to understand that he wasn't a pot-hunter.

Foe-Farrell Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903