stag-hunt

That is why the retainers were lured away and murdered, and why the king was invited on the stag-hunt.

Ghost King Gemmell, David 1988

We were sitting one night at supper, when M. M.nou proposed a stag-hunt by torchlight.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 Various

The subject on both is a stag-hunt; the stag is hunted in a chariot, as was always done before the horse was used for riding, that is before the VIII century B.C.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

A 'Fair Ball' is still given, but the custom of a stag-hunt on the second day has been dropped.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

This powerful chief obtained such an ascendant at the court of the Lord of the Isles, as to provoke the enmity of the Chief of Mackinnon, who, on the occasion of a stag-hunt, formed a plot to cut off Lachlan and his brother, Hector Maclean.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

With fresh wiles she marked the spot where beautiful Iülus was trapping and coursing game on the bank; here the infernal maiden suddenly crosses his hounds with the maddening touch of a familiar scent, and drives them hotly on the stag-hunt.

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Uriens on the stag-hunt and that fell asleep on the magic ship.

Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler

It is related of Gillean that, being one day engaged in a stag-hunt on the mountain of Bein't Sheala, and having wandered away from the rest of his party, the mountain became suddenly enveloped in a deep mist, and that he lost his track.

Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume II. Mrs. Thomson

The "show," I gathered, was to consist of a stag-hunt, shark-fishing, war-dances, and pony races, and was to conclude with a native bull-fight.

Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China 1918

On the morning of the masked ball his Highness attended a stag-hunt, and thus it fell out that he and Wilhelmine did not meet to discuss the vexed question of the letter.

A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg 1905