Faculty is one of the things that you can't buy. He loved to hunt. That is, he loved to hunt some kinds of things. He never loved to hunt stiddy, hard work, and foller on the trail of it till he evertook success and captured it. No, he druther hunt after catamounts and painters, in woods where catamounts haint mounted, and painters haint painted sence he wuz born. He generally killed nothin' bigger than red squirrels and chipmunks. The biggest game he ever brought down wuz himself. He shot himself one cold day in the fall of the year.英文原著 · 《Samantha at Saratoga》
So although he felt it to be useless he accosted Hunter. This time Hunter stopped: he was winded by his climb up the hill. `Good afternoon. sir.' Hunter did not return the salutation; he had not the breath to spare, but the man was not hurt; he was used to being treated like that. `Any chance of a job, sir?'
Hunter did not reply at once. He was short of breath and he was thinking of a plan that was ever recurring to his mind, and which he had lately been hankering to put into execution. It seemed to him that the long waited for opportunity had come. Just now Rushton & Co.英文原著 · 《The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists》
Just look at a few of them."
"Yeh, look at 'em and have a good laugh," invited Hunt. Larry carried the portrait of the Duchess to beneath the swinging electric bulb and examined it closely. Maggie, at his shoulder, waited for his mirth; and Hunt regarded him with a sidelong gaze. But Larry did not laugh. He silently returned the picture, and then examined the portrait of Old Jimmie--then of Maggie--then of the Italian madonna, throned on her curbstone. He replaced this last and crossed swiftly to Hunt. Maggie watched this move in amazement. Larry faced the big painter.英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
They sighted each other in the same instant, and Gavegan let out a roar and started for him. Caught between two opposing forces, Larry again had no time to plan. Rather, there was nothing he could plan, for only one way was open to him. He dashed into the pawnshop and into the back room. At the Duchess's desk Hunt was scribbling at furious speed. "I'm caught, Hunt--Gavegan's coming," he gasped, and ran up the stairs, Hunt following and stuffing his scribblings into a pocket. As Larry passed the open studio door he saw Casey sitting up. "Down on the floor with you, Casey!英文原著 · 《Children of the Whirlwind》
Why, he said, no art of hunting extends beyond hunting and capturing; and when the prey is taken the huntsman or fisherman cannot use it; but they hand it over to the cook, and the geometricians and astronomers and calculators (who all belong to the hunting class, for they do not make their diagrams, but only find out that which was previously contained in them)--they, I say, not being able to use but only to catch their prey, hand over their inventions to the dialectician to be applied by him, if they have any sense in them.英文原著 · 《Euthydemus》
It was the custom that no man who had not distinguished himself upon the war-path could destroy the home of another. This was a neces- sary qualification for the office of an Indian police- man. These policemen must also oversee the hunt, lest some individuals should be well provided with food while others were in want. No man might hunt independently. The game must be carefully watched by the game scouts, and the dis- covery of a herd reported at once to the council, after which the time and manner of the hunt were publicly announced.英文原著 · 《Indian Boyhood》
We should hunt down that super fake jealous lady who hates you.美剧 · 《2 Broke Girls》
It looks like the females were cooperative hunters with the men. It looks like the females were cooperative hunters with the men.演讲 · 《When ideas have sex ~ Matt Ridley》