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An elephant howdah during a tiger-hunt is middling tough; centre stage during amateur theatricals would probably strike you as out of court altogether, in Gloucestershire, anyway, but it's astonishing what you can do in a pantomime horse.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Scotchmen whom Lord Minto, the Governor-General, patronised; and then he described a tiger-hunt; and the manner in which the mahout of his elephant had been pulled off his seat by one of the infuriated animals.
Vanity Fair 2006
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He had never been but once at a tiger-hunt, when the accident in question occurred, and when he was half killed — not by the tiger, but by the fright.
Vanity Fair 2006
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Scotchmen whom Lord Minto, the Governor-General, patronised; and then he described a tiger-hunt; and the manner in which the mahout of his elephant had been pulled off his seat by one of the infuriated animals.
Vanity Fair 2006
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An elephant howdah during a tiger-hunt is middling tough; centre stage during amateur theatricals would probably strike you as out of court altogether, in Gloucestershire, anyway, but it's astonishing what you can do in a pantomime horse.
Flashman and The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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An elephant howdah during a tiger-hunt is middling tough; centre stage during amateur theatricals would probably strike you as out of court altogether, in Gloucestershire, anyway, but it's astonishing what you can do in a pantomime horse.
Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982
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It was the tiger-hunt, in view of his own village, and he sat down, tremulous with rapture, in the grass to watch.
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The king of Siam has at present a bodyguard of four hundred women; they are armed with lance and rifle, are admirably disciplined, and their commander (appointed after saving the king's life at a tiger-hunt) ranks as one of the royal family and has ten elephants at her service.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various
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From the tiger to the town, from the cries of jackals to those of street-venders, -- this is an easy transition in India; and it was only the late afternoon of the second day after the tiger-hunt when my companion and I were strolling along the magnificent Esplanade of
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
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He had no false ideas in regard to this tiger-hunt.
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