shooting-box

I never wish to go to a great castle again; above all, I never wish to go to a little shooting-box.

The Newcomes 2006

I had forgotten the ducks and the cold, and, suddenly presented as a shooting-box in inclement weather, the Dulcibella lost ground in my estimation, which she had latterly gained.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

About midday, Captain Lund drove down on the ice to draw up the boat owned by his sons; after which he was to return a second time for the decoys and shooting-box of the homeward-bound sportsmen.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Replete with every comfort, a shooting-box for the sportsman and a sure refuge for the overworked, the house-boat represents to me the acme of leisure and repose.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

The laps were then "turned" over the edge of an axe with a billet of wood cut from the old cross-bars of Davies's shooting-box, which were young ash saplings.

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Returning to the old berg, the party took down the shooting-box from the top of the cave, and filling it with the remaining boughs, and a part of the seal-skins, blubber,

Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

Affeton Castle has been for many years altogether in ruins, but in the middle of the last century Sir George Stucley roofed over the old gate-house and made it habitable as a shooting-box.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

The first essential for shooting-trips up the Yangtse is a good house-boat or light draft yacht of from ten to fifteen tons, into which you pack every requisite, and which is in reality your floating shooting-box for the time being.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

The Bullers at one time lived chiefly in Cornwall, and Downes was originally a shooting-box.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

Palm-tree House belonged for more than twenty years to a British merchant, who simply provided accommodation for any sportsman liking to come out and put up for a week or so outside Mogador: it has still the air of a shooting-box.

In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory