| 单词 | hunter |
| 例句 | It was only the famished young dog who really suffered, for he was not a natural hunter, and wasted a lot of ill-afforded energy in pursuit. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z By stealing and reading secret messages and by reading the decoded reports of agents and spy hunters, Washington was finding out what the British were going to do sometimes even before British troops knew. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Tutok did not return the next day and I remembered that it was near the time when the Aleut hunters would leave. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Possibly his experience with the bounty hunter Phil Resch had altered some minute synapsis in him, had closed one neurological switch and opened another. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Farmer, goatherd, cattleherd, hunter or artisan, the landsman looks at the ocean as at a salt unsteady realm that has nothing to do with him at all. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z After seeing that there was nothing to be scared of, once again I was the fearless hunter, screaming and yelling-as loud as I could, “Get him, boy, get him.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z With belts and long leather laces from their boots, the hunters made a stretcher. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z These weren’t typical hunters; the strings of bullets told me they were combatants, probably hungry and unpaid and setting traps for extra food. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘I suppose that’s fair enough. You seek information about Gaia’s hunter. His name is Orion.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “And where are they now, these Dust hunters?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z He had lived here a long time, and more than one hunter had listened to the voices of his hounds bawling on his trail. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, but what I’m talking about is hunting. Starting as a young teenager, he was a really good hunter.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The Agency's spy hunters now had a lead on a possible mole and an explanation for all the losses the CIA had suffered since 1985. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Herons have one thing in their favor: they are excellent hunters and are total opportunists. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z He was a tiger hunter, after all, wasn’t he? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z After being so quiet for so long—the slaves to escape the detection of hunters, and the hunters to escape the detection of their prey—all of them cried out and shrieked with their exertions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Her father was Christopher. He was a fine hunter, one of the best. Some of you probably remember him.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I was sure he noticed me, like he had to have noticed the hunters and Otto, but he kept his eyes trained on his knees, hoping to be ignored. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Just then he heard some dogs and knew hunters were walking nearby. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z It was littered with empty cartridge cases dropped by hunters who had dealt out death in this silent place. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He had hoped to come across a hunter’s lean-to or even a temple, but no such shelter appeared as the sun began to descend below the treetops. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Like that Cherokee hunter who changed into a serpent, all demigods had their share of bad spirits inside. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In the old days a hunter would shoot or trap animals just to feed his own family, perhaps his village. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Somehow, one of the other bounty hunters had found a way to hack through my own shields. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And anyway, Orion is not a hunter or a coffeemaker or a dinosaur. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z For generations his ancestors had been bred to retrieve without harming, and there was nothing of the hunter in his make-up; as yet, any killing was abhorrent to him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A farmer played a one-stringed harp like a hunter’s bow and sang to himself as he waited for someone to buy his chickens. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z David ran up and put his foot on my stomach and pounded his chest and said, “For I am the greatest hunter alive!” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Arm stood hypnotized as the person approached, moving with an easy hunter’s gait. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z "Yes. The beast is a hunter. Only- shut up! The next thing is that we couldn't kill it. And the next thing is that Ralph said my hunters are no good." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Alaskan hunters know that the easiest way to preserve meat in the bush is to slice it into thin strips and then air-dry it on a makeshift rack. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As he carved, he thought about the eagles he had seen and why they were such proud and powerful hunters. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z A hunter may address a herd of deer and ask that one of them sacrifice itself. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “But tell us this: do you know anything more about these Dust hunters? What do they do at this Bolvangar?” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “Really? I don’t believe it. I think they wear them to show they are chamois hunters. Are there chamois near here?” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z The army covered twenty-two miles the first day, by the reckoning of the guides Lady Sybelle had given them, trackers and hunters sworn to Deepwood with clan names like Forrester and Woods, Branch and Bole. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Here and there hunters were standing in small groups, talking. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Each band of a few dozen hunters occupies a large territory, within which they can acquire most of the resources essential to them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Descheeny came down to the hunters who pretended to be adjusting the harnesses and tightening the cinches. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The next day the hunter performed his trickery and lured the herd into an open ing. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The hunter, whose name was Richard Parker, picked it up with his bare hands and, remembering how it had rushed to drink in the river, baptized it Thirsty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z A lazy hunter, it was searching for the lifeless shape of carrion. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The carpet in the hall with the hunters and the boar, you know the one? Something funny happened to me when I looked at it before.” Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z A hunter, yes, Pet explained, but a hunter alone? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I’m a bounty hunter, one of many in Manhattan, and I’m fighting to capture Martin Hamer before another hunter can. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The hunters circled them and began to walk toward each other, drawing the circle smaller and smaller. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But this region wasn’t natural bonobo habitat, so it hadn’t crossed my mind that there would be any bushmeat hunters around. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Shhh, the sergeant said, don’t tell anyone there’s a tiger up here or all the hunters will come and shoot it. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “After a while, the man came upon a rabbit. He lifted his bow, but the honeyguide flew over his head and cried, ‘Leave it, O hunter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, as Neumann noted, Indians actually sought out pregnant or nursing does, which hunters today are instructed to let go. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There were no cars—suppose the fairies fly into a windshield? And there were no hunters with rifles shooting at anything that moves, just for the fun of it.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Researchers had previously noted the temporal coincidence between the paleo-Indians’ arrival and the mass extinction, but they didn’t believe that small bands of hunters could wreak such ecological havoc. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z At this very moment, other hunters are probably hot on Zero's trail, reporting their findings to Hideo while I gape at my new wardrobe. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wonder if his change of heart had anything to do with that moment—if he, as another hunter, also understands what had really happened. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z When he finally turned around, they were together, the hunter kneeling beside the woman, placing pinches of cornmeal on the deer’s nose, whispering to it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother once told me a story about a notorious hunter of wild pigs who used magic to transform himself into a wild boar. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z ‘I can see what you have. I will help you out for two or three loads of meat. Otherwise . His voice trailed off and the hunters started whispering among themselves. “He knew some Spanish. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The twelve treasure hunters made their way through the lobby and into the motel office. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z As they listened to his stories, everybody knew that this was a hunter whose heart was stronger and harder than any other’s in that part of the country. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I could not hear their words because of the noise the hunters made, but from the way my father shook his head, I knew that he was not pleased. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He protected hikers and hunters and tree-climbing little urchins like us, and he created the most sacred tree of all, the Master Oak, for us to grow up in. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z I noticed other hunters doing the same thing. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They always had more job hunters than jobs anyway. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They used tools and fire, were good hunters, and apparently took care of their sick and infirm. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They set off again, the hunters bunched a little by fear of the mentioned beast, while Jack quested ahead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z That was why archaeologists and anthropologists had come across the ruins of complex societies throughout Mesoamerica and the Andes, but saw only hunter- gatherers and slash-and-burners in Amazonia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I never liked to hear this cry, but it was all in the game, the hunter and the hunted. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The fog cleared again and she saw Amaroq, his hunters, and the pups running across the tundra. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He loved animals too much to be a hunter. Stone Fox 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The profusion of Clovis hunters’ sites within the first few centuries after their arrival resembles the site profusion documented archaeologically for the more recent discovery of New Zealand by ancestral Maori. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Not only did they save the corn today, but they caught and plucked our dinner! They are hunters!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Kaede was asleep, dreaming of a hunter running lightly through the Wood, a quiver on her back. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z This was what Guitar had missed about the South—the woods, hunters, killing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Those hunters would regularly set fire to the prairie to keep it free of trees and nourish the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Except my heron, he was strutting out into the world like that hunter would never, never come. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Then the hunted come out and the hunters, and hunters of the hunters. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Or was the founder package instead brought by invading farmers, who were thereby enabled to outbreed the local hunters and to kill, displace, or outnumber them? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Game animals congregated around the water, and hunters followed them there. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I didn’t see myself as a “hunter,” and I didn’t know if I was capable of the speed he was talking about. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The hunter now limped and rattled and was covered in scars. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They are great hunters, going after wildebeestes and zebras, as well as smaller creatures. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Then I saw a sight that makes a hunter’s heart swell with pride. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “My father was a great hunter. He taught me much. If Nusan asks where I am, tell her you saw me walking out on the ice. She won’t look for me long after that.” Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would like to say yes, so you would think your friend Anatole is a good hunter. But, alas. A new pupil brought it this morning to pay for his schooling.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The longer Boots seemed to defy his hunters, the deeper became Caesar’s anger, and having no other target, it fixed itself on Julius. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z If they were hunters, I must hide before they saw me. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s thrown a rope with weights at either end right at my legs and they’ve twisted round and caught me, expert, just like a hunter after swamp deer. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z Rather than approaching it, the hunters returned to Fairfax and informed authorities, and a deputy sheriff and the town marshal went to investigate. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The garden and the hunter vanished, along with the arrow in Reyna’s stomach. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It turns out that they were hunters, gatherers, and fishing people enjoying a remarkably diverse and well-balanced diet that modern nutritionists would applaud. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A feeling that only a hunter knows slowly crept over my body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In modern times, European farmers thereby replaced western North American Indian hunters, Aboriginal Australians, and the San people of South Africa. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He started to ask where they were then, where they lived, because he had only met the hunter; but her eyes were shining, and they told him things that her words never said. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I know that a poodle looks very like a buck deer to one of these hunters, and I had to find some way of protecting him. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z By hiring an army of contract egg hunters, IOI was perverting the entire spirit of the contest. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Info from his hunter—it’s the only thing I can think of to say that might get him to see me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Our eyes are peeled for bears, lynxes, wayward hunters—any creature that might call the mountains home. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z From beyond the platform came the shouting of the hunters in the swimming pool. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Or maybe it’s to throw off the other bounty hunters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z "Well, we haven't got any yet. And we want shelters. Besides, the rest of your hunters came back hours ago. They've been swimming." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Phillips said he was a good hunter and he set up the tents and managed the sails. Once, he even saved Clark from drowning.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z "So long as your hunters remember the fire-" "You and your fire-" The two boys trotted down the beach, and, turning at the water's edge, looked back at the pink mountain. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z In Virginia, you could smuggle yourself into Delaware or up the Chesapeake on a barge, evading patrollers and bounty hunters by your wits and the invisible hand of Providence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The duck hunters dropped him in El Golfo de Santa Clara, a fishing village on the Gulf of California. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunter motioned for him to step inside. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Jack, identifiable by personality and red hair, was advancing from the forest A hunter crouched on either side. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Had any of the other bounty hunters seen what just happened? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The hunter was too big and too brutal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Would the game studio itself put out a bounty on my head, for other hunters to track me down? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The hunter watched his target drop from branch to branch, down to the forest floor. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Of course dinosaur hunting didn’t end with the deaths of the great nineteenth-century fossil hunters. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Out of my jurisdiction; another bounty hunter from another police department will retire Polokov and claim the money. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Bait laid on the trail, the hog hunters waited for their quarry, which turned nocturnal in the hot weather. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was strangely easy to converse with this genteel hunter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Another day and a night he spent trying to work his way back to the cave and avoid the hunters if they were still about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z That had been Madison’s favorite constellation because it was so easy to find and had such a cool story behind it—the hunter and his sword, his dogs, all of them fighting a demonic bull. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z “Her father was a fine hunter,” he said again. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the two hunters would return and adjust the numbers again. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z On hearing this, the leopard mother wept bitterly, but the hunter just watched as the beautiful woman sobbed on his floor. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “We must do the matter properly, and cut its insides out, and sling it over a pony, and take it home to the castle, like proper hunters.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine it now, with the horses twice as heavy as the soft-mouthed hunters of our own midnight pageants, with the men themselves twice heavier on account of arms and shield. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunters let out a cheer, and Ash watched as Kaisa turned her back on them and wiped her sword off on the meadow grass. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The second hunter knew he shouldn’t, but he ate.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Without a hunter as part of their family, she and her mother had not eaten meat except for the occasional small creature that they could catch within the boundaries of the village. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z "So you see," said Ralph, "we need hunters to get us meat. And another thing." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The hunter and the hound weren’t the only ones awake that night. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the fall when hunting season began, sometimes she heard the hunters riding by, and she would lie very still, wondering if the dogs would find her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, by the 19th century North America’s Great Plains Indians were famous as expert horse-mounted warriors and bison hunters, but they did not even obtain horses until the late 17th century. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is the first time you’ll be acting as senior bounty hunter. Dave knows a lot; he’s got years of experience behind him.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But I get them or some other bounty hunter gets them. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Before setting out, the hunters also instructed their wives to stay indoors until the hunt was over, preferably lying in bed and sleeping. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z A friendly hunter looked at me and asked, “Do you think he could have fooled your dogs?” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “He lost his birth mother. He learned how to ride horses, use and make weapons, be a hunter and a warrior. Had his first girlfriend.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z I found that club even more difficult to join than the club of hunters. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He inhabited a gray winter fog on a distant elk mountain where hunters are lost indefinitely and their own bones mark the boundaries. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z These words pleased the hunter, who shouted out to her that she could spend that night in his hut. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z "You hunters! You can laugh! But I tell you the smoke is more important than the pig, however often you kill one. Do all of you see?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Did you say Grumman?” said the man sitting just along the bar, an elderly man in seal hunter’s rig, whose lemming dæmon looked out solemnly from his pocket. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I had a father. He was a fine hunter,” Kira told him proudly. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Preferably use the tops of trees for this purpose, for hunters don’t look up. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “But a fire’s a fire. Nothing so odd about that. It’s just the bird keeper. Or a camper. Or another idiot treasure hunter. Why do you care?” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Too many hunters seeing a flash of white have taken it for the tail of a running deer and cured a head cold with a single shot. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After another day, the rain stopped, but the parade of treasure hunters from the mainland did not. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z That is why you are important: there must be a hunter like me; there must be a hunter who is human, who can go where I cannot go, see what I cannot see. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I know there are any number of good and efficient hunters who know what they are doing; but many more are overweight gentlemen, primed with whisky and armed with high-powered rifles. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore well- mended hunter’s leathers, a faded traveling cloak, and high boots, all dusty from the road. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His mate had not returned to their aerie one morning, and he was forced to be mother and hunter to three eyases again. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z When the boat came back it held a black chest which two of the hunters carried to the beach. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z This could be done she knew, for her father, an Eskimo hunter, had done so. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Pap laughed and shouted, “Man alive! That ol’ dog done birthed three hunters! The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z The hunter’s friends were astonished at this claim. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z I move through the downstairs on hunter’s feet, reluctant to make any sound. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The simple fact of the matter was that Anastasia had been scared and adrenaline had surged, and once the hunter was gone, Pweto had become her next target. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I heard, as if from underwater, the final growl of the hunter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I saw right away that he hadn’t died, that the Nazi hunters had been wrong. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z I became a much better hunter when I didn't have to look over my shoulder constantly, when someone was watching my back. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z No need for the hunters to realize they’d hit their mark. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Kind hunters then found her and took her to live with them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z In the irregular light the bounty hunter seemed a medium man, not impressive. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He was a young man of gigantic stature and great beauty, and a mighty hunter. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Worsley manned the crow’s-nest with binoculars, a megaphone, and a flag, searching the ice pack for seals and then shouting and pointing out the seals to the hunters. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z She saw Kaisa raise her gloved hand and signal to the pennant bearer, and the hunters fell in line behind her as they rode out of the camp. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The wet leather of Tayo’s boots and the hunter’s elkskin leggings made steam rise around them like mountain fog after a storm. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z When we learned about a nearby village that had been overrun with screechers, we created a new incentive for hunters. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I rely as much on my ears as my eyes as a hunter, maybe more at times. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He remembered reading about wild boars that came plunging through forests, and how the hunters waited, and then leaped out and stuck knives into the throat and heart and eyes of the animal. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Already the hunters were stealing away to do their business in the woods or down by the rocks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “And what will I and the other hunters be competing for? What’s your bounty prize?” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Pheasant hunters felt the effects of the beetle campaign sharply. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Incredibly, hunters in the countryside captured tens of thousands of pigeons in nets and sent the living birds to urban hunting clubs for target practice. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A million paleo-Indians, Martin argued, could easily form a wave of hunters that would radiate out from the southern end of the ice-free corridor, turning the continent into an abattoir. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You’ll get the trophy, Karen. Just like a hunter who kills a deer, you’ll be able to hang Dad’s toe on your wall.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Same as a hunter lost in the woods will walk in circles, if he don’t have a star to guide him, or know that moss mostly grows on the north side of trees. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z “Something exciting and adventurous. Maybe I should go to the airport and get on a plane. Or maybe I could become a treasure hunter. I read about that somewhere. I could also learn to dive...” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Instead of roamin ’ the jungle, hiding from hunters in three- piece loincloths, they are put in concrete cages with bars of steel. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Rachael rested very slightly on the fore-part of her feet, and her arms, as they hung, bent at the joint: the stance, he reflected, of a wary hunter of perhaps the Cro-Magnon persuasion. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The three hunters were stretched out on their sides, their bellies extended with food. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z As a boy, he had been fond of playing with bees—Beowulf means "the bee- hunter"—and one day an angry swarm had attacked his face, stinging his cheeks and eyelids rather badly. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z With one of the mariposas climbing up her nose, staring at her eye to eye, Pita looked like Bambi, right before the hunters shot his mother. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z Gale and I were taken by surprise, yes, but we're both hunters. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “There are those who credit you with skill as a hunter, though I find that doubtful.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “You can never predict my Prince; that is why he is the greatest hunter.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The first thing I do is dig out my own glasses and put them on, which relaxes me a little, to have at least one of my hunter's senses working. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z I imagine getting on a flight back to New York, returning to my old life while some other hunter catches Zero. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After listening carefully for the sound of dogs or hunters and hearing nothing but the burping of bullfrogs, Amari signaled that they should ease out of the mire. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She became in the end more than their equal in all the arduous feats of a hunter’s life. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z As darkness fell, the leopard mother asked the hunter what he was going to be doing the next day. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Those who possess this power, her dad said, could interpret dreams, repel disease or death, inform hunters where to find game, and send a spirit helper to harm their enemies. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Even in countries where chimp flesh is not eaten, mothers may be shot so that hunters can steal their babies and sell them—for pets, for zoos and circuses, or for medical research. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Everything the hunters brought in was like this. Wild rabbit. Some birds. There wasn’t anything, well, anything very large.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He wanted to meet the immortal hunter who calls himself Bouain. Now he has. If you will help him get free, he will make you immune to bullets.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to sound casual, but all he could think about was how the hunter seemed to know that he and the woman had met before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They became expert vermin hunters until Blue Bill found a cliff near the Pepacton Reservoir. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z He took out a drawstring purse and counted out a dozen heavy coins into the hunter’s hand. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Maybe he was why the hunters, instead of swarming us, had stayed inside and shot from the second story. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Nightfall came, and forced the hunters to quit—that, and lack of space, for they had amassed as many bottles as the car could contain. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He smacked his lips, then glided toward the table like a hunter stalking his prey. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z “He said he could walk it no problem, said he was an experienced hunter. He sat down one day and said, ‘To hell with this, I can’t go on. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z They might have been weekend duck hunters, dressed for the shoot. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I'm helpless as the first hunter crashes through the trees, spear lifted, poised to throw. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “What would you do if you were the hunter?” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Notwithstanding the popular image of ‘man the hunter’, gathering was Sapiens’ main activity, and it provided most of their calories, as well as raw materials such as flint, wood and bamboo. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The other revealed Saint Giles, protecting the innocent deer from hunters, a constant reminder as to what our faith should be. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Too, the agent was an excellent bow hunter; and he sometimes went with an old college friend—the Milagro real estate agent Bud Gleason—varmint calling. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lots of elk and deer around here. So it was fun to be a hunter. But the best thing he did was supply meat for the old people and the widows.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Scalp hunters would sometimes take children and women captive to sell into slavery in the West Indies or elsewhere. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Cora’s assailant was boyish and slender, perhaps the son of one of the other hunters. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “He used to be a prince, and a wonderful hunter and stuff. But that doesn’t matter. Now he just...well, look!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Because, after the thaw, the hunters discovered her body. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Hideo hadn’t mentioned anything about the other bounty hunters, which means I’m probably ahead of them on this job. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We told Pa Sesay that if any of us was the hunter, we wouldn’t have gone hunting for monkeys. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Many hunters fear buffalo more than lions or elephants. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Imagine that O’Connor had written Herons are opportunistic hunters, but great blues defend a fishing hole even when it’s frozen. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z There’d been no sign of it since that one winter’s day; bounty hunters no doubt had dispatched it, as they had most of the wolves in this part of the country. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The brave hunter screamed, but nobody heard him. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “You like the hunters, do you? Have you fallen in love with one of them?” she teased her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was just an auto-reply. According to my messages, I received the first call-in from another hunter on location. Bounty goes to the first, no exceptions.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “But what if she runs off? What if a hunter sees her?” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z All three agreed, as they quickly informed Hrdlicka, that the discovery admitted only one possible explanation: thousands of years ago, a Pleistocene hunter had speared a bison. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I am not seeking an assassin. I am seeking a hunter.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The hunters reached the ship, the red sails went up, and the ship moved slowly between the two rocks that guard the cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine, Martin said, that an original group of a hundred hunters crossed over Beringia and down the ice-free corridor. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Richard had on a full orange hunter’s outfit and I was wearing my brightest orange sweater. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The hunters complain that they have to travel farther and farther into the forest to catch anything at all. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In one sense I’m now the greatest bounty hunter who ever lived; no one ever retired six Nexus-6 types in one twenty-four-hour span and no one probably ever will again. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He was eager to get to our tree house in the mountains because sunrise was when the hunting officially started and he wanted to get the jump on the other hunters. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I was contacted by another bounty hunter,” he finally says, stretching his arms over his head. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He didn’t want to interrupt the hunter to ask, but he was wondering where he was from, and where he had learned the Laguna song. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Ulape and I went together far out on the ledge where I had hidden before when the hunters first came. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z If we had more skilled farmers and hunters, and if we all worked at farming and hunting, we might be able to produce enough food to get us through the winter. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Before the cubs could run away, the hunter swooped upon them and carried the little creatures out of the forest. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She read an inscription: Home is the hunter, home from the hill, and the sailor home from the sea. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “Once upon a time,” Nhamo said, “there was a hunter with two dogs. The dogs were called Bite Hard and Grip Fast.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt like an exotic beast, a hunter’s prize. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z He focused on the need for speed, not camping in the forests of Maryland, cowering like a wounded animal, fearful that every noise meant the hunters were about to seize him. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the hunter and the sailor, and she guessed dead people did lie quietly in their graves. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty million Montags running, running like an ancient flickery Keystone Comedy, cops, robbers, chasers and the chased, hunters and hunted, he had seen it a thousand times. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Will had been a hunter before he joined the Night's Watch. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Each day the shooting lessened as the hunters left the hills and went home. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “The fishermen,” said the seal hunter, “they say you can sail right up into that new world.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was found, in very poor health, by hunters three days later. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z A hunter in an orange sweater is kneeling on the ground behind a pig. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I’m calling Sheriff Ocasek. When word of this gets out, we’ll need security to protect our dig from souvenir hunters. This is going to be big news!” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z The hunter preyed on the fatigued and weary. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “The association,” Rachael said, “wanted to reach the bounty hunters here and in the Soviet Union. This seemed to work...for reasons which we do not fully understand. Our limitation again, I guess.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z And he judged that northward was, maybe, the way that their hunters would least expect them to take. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z One day, Mom got a call from Mr. Jackson, who lived up in the New Camp part of town and fancied himself a hunter. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He did not have the skills he would need to survive in the coming days, those of outdoorsman, hunter, or river boatman. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunters disengage the sacks and fling them expertly to the waiting sailors. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He wanted to complete what he had begun, but he overrode the brutal imperative of the hunter in him. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Ah! I got his Tartar name!” said the seal hunter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried to steal down the other side of the mountain to the north stream, found another camp of hunters there, and went back to my tree. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Stone-tool-using farmers similarly replaced hunters prehistorically throughout Europe, Southeast Asia, and Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The problem with all this was that his work inside the command module changed completely, depending on whether he was hunter or hunted, whether he had to go high or low. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He realized that after so many years of hunches and suspicions, the time had come to bring in the experts, the spy hunters of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Whether coincidentally or not, that date is identical, within experimental error, to the date of Clovis hunters’ arrival in the Grand Canyon area. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z This sure looked like a case of hydrophobia to Searcy, as anybody knew that no fox in his right mind was going to jump on a hunter. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The dance was over and the hunters were going back to the shelters. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z I let the hunter come to me and turn me into a tiger ghost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The sketches on the fliers Terrance had printed after their escape were crudely drawn but resembled them enough that any savvy hunter would look at her twice. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z By the time she reached the hunter’s house she was one of the most beautiful women who had ever walked past that place. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “As I say, I know all the bounty hunters,” the harness bull said, “and I’ve never heard of you.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z There were immediate shouts of interest when the hunters entered with Otto, and they were soon surrounded. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I screamed, but my voice got lost in the cries of Sir Zurt and the lumbering steps of approaching hunters. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I’ve watched all six episodes of Star Wars for his sake, so I could talk to him about the aliens and bounty hunters and all that. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t the hunters come after you? Why didn’t they kill you?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The huntress covered the woman’s hand with her own and said, “Patience. There will be hunters.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I came from a long line of hunters, trappers, and voyageurs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Roger ceased to be a pig and became a hunter, so that the center of the ring yawned emptily. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Now and then I could hear the hunter whooping to him. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Sapiens were more proficient hunters and gatherers—thanks to better technology and superior social skills—so they multiplied and spread. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He is the son of a famous professional hunter named Iain MacDonald, who was killed at the controls of a light plane that crashed on the African plains in 1967, when Robin was thirteen. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He waited with new thirst like a hunter at a chasm where the life cycle ends, where there is an end to causes, where painless eternity begins. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z The beast caught him just as he reached the circle of hunters. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He had become enamored of hunting and fishing and became so skilled that when his grandfather died he was adopted by the greatest of all living Eskimo hunters. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The headman called out in his own tongue, addressing the man by the name the old seal hunter had told him: Jopari. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunter called his assistants on the radio. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I rode, feeling proud of myself as a hunter and a provider for the family. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at home, I opened my e-mail and saw that Angelo had sent me some pictures under the subject heading Look the great hunter! The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When they heard the notes of the hunting horn, Kaisa shouted at them to follow, and the hunters plunged forward through the trees with Kaisa in the lead. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Treasure hunter, diver—he had never wanted to be anything like that! The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The hunter called his dogs away and walked on.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The doomed were caught between fire and water, and the deadly sights of four master hunters. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “The bobcat is the most challenging game there is. Pure stealth. In the whole state only a couple dozen hunters will be successful this year.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “It looks like it might have been a hunter’s shelter,” Polly observed. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Since that day, the wild pigs have distrusted all humans, and whenever they see a person in the forest, they think he or she is there to avenge the hunter. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Those complex political units are much better able to mount a sustained war of conquest than is an egalitarian band of hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Clarence gestured for the three treasure hunters to follow him through the red door into the control room. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z So do the mounted heads of rhinoceros and cheetah, evidence of the Belgian’s skill as a sport hunter. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though we were known hunters, it wouldn't have been good to go carrying a 150-pound deer through the streets of District 12 in daylight like we were rubbing it in the officials' faces. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Because, ultimately, the empathic gift blurred the boundaries between hunter and victim, between the successful and the defeated. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Providence smiled on the fugitives: The hunters believed they hid in the swamp—with two young females in tow, any other ambitions must have been curtailed. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As if in the end, it will be the question of whether a baker or a hunter will extend my longevity the most. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The Chief Ranger suggested calling a local bush pilot, who flew hunters into the remoter parts of the bush and knew most of the Indian guides. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Known jewel thief and treasure hunter. But don’t worry—the FBI and I are on his tail, sir.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z ‘Well . . . these two Cherokee hunters were out in the woods, right? Each of them was under a taboo.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z We are a community of book lovers, puzzle lovers, and treasure hunters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Contrast Herons have one thing but, in contrast, on the in their favor: they are other hand, alternatively opportunistic hunters. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This strange god, the gay reveler, the cruel hunter, the lofty inspirer, was also the sufferer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z To get close enough to actually kill the lion, the hunters needed to create a distraction. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Even before World War II, Hoover had wanted his G-men to become the chief spy hunters in the Americas. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z With that the three hunters plunged into the forest of Fangorn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z None of these creatures frightened this brave hunter, who would come home and tell people of what he had seen. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z What better cover than a light breeze and a hunter’s moon? Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z We are a community of book lovers, puzzle lovers, and treasure hunters. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z How it doesn’t care that the hunter is coming up the path? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z It wound through the trees and did not follow any ordinary trail that had been broken in by hunters or the deer they chased. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, farming spread mainly through farmers’ outbreeding hunters, developing more potent technology, and then killing the hunters or driving them off of all lands suitable for agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her heart leaped—an Eskimo hunter, one of her own pack, truly. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had grown so used to the howling of the direwolves that he scarcely heard it anymore . . . but some part of him, some hunter's instinct, heard its absence. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All those recently hatched massive blue- white super-giant stars in Orion are destined in the next few million years to become supernovae, a continuing cosmic fireworks in the constellation of the hunter. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Woodsmen, white or black, all country people were free to enter a lean-to, a hunter’s shooting cabin. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘And all the arrows of all the hunters in the world would be in vain,’ said Gimli, gazing at the mail in wonder. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She glanced at Ash in mid-sentence and Ash quickly looked away, feeling overwhelmed by it all: Kaisa, the hunters, the banquet hall, the King and Queen, barely twenty feet away from her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy grew to splendid manhood, a great athlete and hunter, despising those who lived in luxurious ease and still more those who were soft enough and silly enough to fall in love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z How had she ever enjoyed being a solo book hunter before? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z It was cold and the snap of each twig breaking sounded like tiny hunters firing tiny rifles at tiny imaginary deer. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When a scouting party spotted a herd, Ne-kah-e-se-y and the other hunters raced on their horses across the plains, the hooves pounding the earth like drums, the manes whipping the riders’ sweating, gleaming faces. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “You heard the prophecy. Five shall go west to the goddess in chains. We can get five hunters and go.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Here it is the hunters who are in energetic motion. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I’m sure he thought he didn’t stand a chance against two vicious hounds and a big hunter. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But in the circle of Isengard, trapped and alone, it was not easy to think that the hunters before whom all have fled or fallen would falter in the Shire far away.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Also unresolved is the question whether Clovis hunters really were the first Americans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The leopard mother looked up at the brave hunter and begged him to spare the lives of the two cubs. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z “He was a shaman,” said the old seal hunter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I already mentioned that early Korean farming was relatively unproductive and resulted only in poor farmers outclassed by rich hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Frightful took care of the small game supply, and now that she was an expert hunter, we had rabbit stew, pheasant potpie, and an occasional sparrow, which I generously gave to Frightful. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunter came in from the back room. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z And their ability to eat nonfishy meals is, in turn, an elaboration of their being opportunistic hunters. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z This combination of Continental Army regulars, rangers, and commercial scalp hunters ravaged most of Seneca territory. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I look like his hunter, dressed entirely in black. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There is good hunting. You would like the people and though it is cold it is clear and dry. You could stay with my family. My father is a famous hunter.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z “He doesn’t know; he doesn’t suspect; he doesn’t have the slightest idea. Otherwise he couldn’t live out a life as a bounty hunter, a human occupation—hardly an android occupation.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “She will laugh, and say we are mighty hunters.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z When the song ended, the hunters bowed to the gathered people and reclaimed their horses, then rode out of the square, the horses’ hooves clattering loudly on the paving stones. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "This is more than a hunter's job," said Ralph at last, "because you can't track the beast And don't you want to be rescued?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Her legs dangled in the air until she pounded a foot and a stump against the hunter’s broad chest, leaned back, and pulled on the rifle with all her strength. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He was almost always hungry, but that skillful hunter the cat kept him provided with food which, while scarcely ever satisfying, was adequate by his new standard of living. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Tayo nodded; he was looking at the old rifle slung across the hunter’s back. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z We knew how to spring traps and ruin a hunter’s aim, but we had no idea if we’d need our skills this time. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z As we came into the campground, the hunters came out of their tents and gathered around us. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The quarry had the best of it at first, but then another hunter flew free of the cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z All the papers we received with the cub clearly stated that its name was Richard Parker, that the hunter’s first name was Thirsty and that his family name was None Given. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z His face felt hot, and he looked away quickly before the hunter walked in. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The hunter was overjoyed when his wife gave birth to a strong boy. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z But I’m not his bounty hunter, and more specifically, I’m not you. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The first verse about the hunters coming and the horns blowing and the scarlet coats went really fast. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Montague’s intentions with regard to Hill House derived from the methods of the intrepid nineteenth-century ghost hunters; he was going to go and live in Hill House and see what happened there. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z They were like a couple of hunters who had just shot an elephant and were not quite sure whether it was dead or alive. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z It looked so peaceful, yet I knew that over there were hunters, noting where chimpanzees made their nests so they could shoot them at first light. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It was the sheriff what let them slave hunters lay over in that stable.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z At the same time, my bounty hunter instincts kick in—screenshot, record a screenshot. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Scalp hunters included rangers, but ordinary settlers could also take in scalps for a reward. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z At the sound of his deep-throated hunter’s growl, however, I regained my senses and shrieked, “Mr. Whiskers! No!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Bulls which had always been tractable suddenly turned savage, sheep broke down hedges and devoured the clover, cows kicked the pail over, hunters refused their fences and shot their riders on to the other side. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “The hunter fashioned her horns into a chair.” Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z There were many brave hunters in those days, but there was only one of them who liked danger. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z But it isn’t hunger that drives millions of armed American males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “Another hunter phoned in the alert before you.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The man before him clearly was not a hunter giant. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If I bought him, then the hunter would try to get more infants to sell. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z These were not mastodon and mammoth hunters—both species were already extinct. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z This brief overview of precolonial North America counteracts the settler-colonial myth of the wandering Neolithic hunter and vast unused and uncharted lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z They have stacks of Bonnie’s books on ghost hunters, psychics, and dangerous angels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In the picture, a ruddyfaced farmer stood at the edge of a broad field, and riding across it was a ghostly host of hunters outlined in silver paint, their horses’ eyes glinting gold. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Her body was as supple as a jaguar and a hunter’s bow; whoever learned about love from her, learned many pleasures, many secrets. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Alexander was given a reward, and he went on to become a great hunter of atheists and pagans. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z With time and experience I became a better hunter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z While initially as a hunter/trapper when a child, and also later, I had witnessed the concept and reality of death. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Amari wanted to scream out once more, but she realized she couldn’t distract the hunters. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, beneath a cold autumnal sky, the hunters were pouring through the gates. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Could be you’re smelling some sour crude from a rig. Or a fox carcass left by a bobcat. Even a deer that lazy hunters didn’t track down.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “The hunters will kill them all. This morning they hunt on the south. Next week they move to another place.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There the old Eskimo hunters she had known in her childhood thought the riches of life were intelligence, fearlessness, and love. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z But the worst news was that the youngest of the hunters—a boy of twelve—had not awakened from his injuries. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I wanted to scoop it up in my arms and protect it from its inevitable future of coyotes, starvation, hunters. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z When he lay down again the cat was gone from his side—another small night hunter slipping through the unquiet shadows that froze to stillness at his passing. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z No doubt other hunters are closing in on this target, too—I have to get to him before anyone else does. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He would have remained until the second month of the dry season, and then a hunter would have killed him. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The third bus was left about halfway out the trail to serve as backcountry shelter for hunters and trappers. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z FBI agent Robert Lamphere in the 1940s, when he was the Bureau's top spy hunter. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A crack shot and expert hunter, Rondon was once described as the “Daniel Boone of Brazil.” Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He spent the night a ways back, and therefore was the only one to see the approaching hunter. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Hark, the wild wandering lines in black battalions, Heaven’s horns and hunters, dawn-bright hounds and stallions. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then we sense something of the drama of the hunter and the hunted. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The Nhambiquara were nomadic hunters and gatherers with Stone Age tools. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z He was, however, an expert and deadly shot, a good hunter, also a conservationist. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One day during his trickery, a small pig saw the hunter biting a plant that enabled him to return to his human form. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z They grew quickly and could be harvested within a few months of sowing, a big advantage for incipient farmers still on the borderline between nomadic hunters and settled villagers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Hills. Fields. Trees. A deer, once. Stones. She is staying well away from villages. When she can she rides along the bed of little streams, to throw hunters off her trail.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “They worshiped the railroads here, only a blink of an eye ago. And now the iron gods are as forgotten as the emerald hunters...” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z “You’ll be one of several bounty hunters I’m hiring for this job.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then the witch stalks the wretched child like a hunter stalking a little bird in the forest. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z How odd that she could be a solo book hunter for years and enjoy it, but now it felt like something was missing to be on her own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The meat provided by male hunters is a kind of luxury, a special treat for a binge and celebration, the Pleistocene equivalent of a giant box of Toblerone. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Everyone laughed at the idea that hunters would bother to bring their wives with them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Kwadzo, a young man known in the village as a fierce hunter, pulled angrily at his shackles, his wrists already bleeding as he fought their restraint. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunters had to pass my father to reach the boat, and when the first one approached him, he stepped in his path. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A local tribe served as wardens to keep the bonobos safe from hunters, in return receiving funding for a local school and clinic. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He sought out experienced hunters around town and asked them for tips about stalking game, dressing animals, curing meat. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z That wasn’t what a hunter did, and it wouldn’t be what the angels would do, but Jam didn’t want to be an angel. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z I’d never seen him do this with other hunters and it got the best of my curiosity. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I know all the bounty hunters,” the harness bull said as he examined Rick’s wallet. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The hunter chose the darkest and most dangerous forest for the place where he would find the leopard cub for sacrifice. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He waited until the hunter saw him before he spoke. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “But deer are gentle, frightened things. The hunters bring nothing with claws or fangs. They never catch anything that could be called a beast.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There was so much she could do for this great hunter now; prepare caribou, catch rabbits, pluck birds, and even make tools with water and the freezing air. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Although the wild dangler may lurk almost anywhere in a sentence, the seasoned hunter will look in the most obvious place, right at the beginning of the sentence. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She was the hunter and they were the prey. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z “Remember the old seal hunter in Nova Zembla who told us about it? It must be six feet under now.” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lore had opened her mouth to respond, but then one of the hunters appeared on the other side of the table and said, “Lore, come and dance with me, will you?” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I think of my own city, how I have a job as a bounty hunter because the police can no longer keep up with the rising crime in New York. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Standing my dogs close to the warm heat, the gentle hands of the hunters went to work. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Pet had called her a hunter too, but Jam didn’t feel like she had the kind of power to make anyone afraid. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z A farmer in upper New York State painted the word cow in big black letters on both sides of his white bossy, but the hunters shot it anyway. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is what the hunters brought. It’s hare, I think.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Lonely men are we, Rangers of the wild, hunters — but hunters ever of the servants of the Enemy; for they are found in many places, not in Mordor only. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The horse stood calmly, serenely, plucking the roses off the blanket as souvenir hunters yanked hairs from his tail. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, they could be sending out a text alert right now, and all across the city, hunters would be swinging onto their motorcycles or hopping in cabs, eager to catch me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This from Piggy, and the wails of agreement from some of the hunters, drove Jack to violence. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The small tribe of Iks, formerly nomadic hunters and gatherers in the mountain valleys of northern Uganda, have become celebrities, literary symbols for the ultimate fate of disheartened, heartless mankind at large. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She also qualified as one of the best fishermen in the area and was a deer hunter supreme. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a hunter from the time I could walk. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z To understand long-ago Indian lives, one cannot avoid the accounts of the first literate people who saw them: European swashbucklers, fortune hunters, and missionaries. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She and Katya were both granted the special status of okhotnik, or “free hunter”—a fighter pilot who could use her initiative to go searching for enemy aircraft or ground forces to attack. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z ‘All that country is alive with our hunters now.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z There was a self conscious giggling among the hunters. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z They thought this would cause the animals to sleep as well, allowing the hunters to sneak up on them with ease. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z ‘The Hunters of Artemis are . . . well, hunters. If anybody knew about this giant hunter guy, Thalia would. I could try sending her an Iris-message.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If the hunt succeeds, the hunter may ask the dead animal to forgive him. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunter’s rifle is angled just so rests on the dead animal’s broad flank. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There cannot be very many hunters, because if they consume all the floaters, the hunters themselves will perish. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Like you were the Snowy Heron and you could feel that something was wrong but you weren’t sure, because you hadn’t seen the hunter with the gun coming across the horizontal yet. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Here, he and Juana might have stepped out of the wheel rut, and these people from the inland, these hunters, could follow, could read a broken straw or a little tumbled pile of dust. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Half of the hunters were on the ship. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Other hunters faced up to danger when they went hunting, but did not go out of their way to find it. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z The hunters took the lion’s body and cut off the tail, paws, and mane. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z After the hunters had left, we stood around our campfires sipping strong black coffee and listening to the baying of the hounds. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If the bushmeat hunters get hold of a baby chimp, they try to sell it as a pet. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In other words, the command-module pilot could normally expect to be the target, the hunted one, but under some circumstances his role might swiftly be reversed, and he would become the hunter! Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We’re similarly liable to pick up diseases from wild animals, such as the tularemia that hunters can get from skinning wild rabbits. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I felt like a deer that has just stepped into the hunter’s well-laid trap. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z They involved taking a hunter education course and taking a test. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z After all, she was a hunter used to waiting at the dens of animals. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The hunter only looks into the head of the other hunter, it said. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The logging companies hired full-time hunters who fed entire logging camps, taking ten or fifteen deer each week and fifty wild turkeys in one month. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Continually besieged by newsmen, photographers, and autograph hunters, he finally put a stop to it all: By the midpoint of the tournament he wouldn’t pose for a photo, sign his autograph, or answer any question. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Another hunter came into the dining room then and bent down to whisper in her ear, and the huntress stood up. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The best bounty hunters could rake in six figures a year. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Roy Baty snarled, “There’s a bounty hunter in the building! Get all the lights off. Get him away from that empathy box; he has to be ready at the door. Go on—move him!” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “Grumbling to himself, the man went on until he found a buffalo. It had just fallen over a cliff and was already dead. ‘Wonderful!’ cried the hunter. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Souvenir hunters had taken his paper cup and even the pieces of mulberry leaves that were left over. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or I had. Seven of them. That was to start with, but now the bounty hunters have had time to get to work. So some of them—maybe all of them—are dead.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Achilles was his pupil and Aesculapius, the great physician; the famous hunter Actaeon, too, and many another. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z "I said you were hunters. That was your job." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The hunter who had come by our tent collecting the jackpot money came up to me. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, it occurs to me that the other two bounty hunters, whoever they are, will probably be watching me at the Wardraft. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z After parking the department’s speedy beefed-up hovercar on the roof of the San Francisco Hall of Justice on Lombard Street, bounty hunter Rick Deckard, briefcase in hand, descended to Harry Bryant’s office. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z One summer the otter did not leave, the summer that Rontu died, and I knew then that none of the otter who remembered the hunters were left. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Rats were hunters; thankfully they had not noticed him. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z I knew hunters went after bonobos in the evening or the morning, taking advantage of the moments they clustered together and revealed their position by calling out. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z But the honeyguide flew over his head and sang, ‘Leave it, O hunter. Better things are ahead.’ A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The usual suspects: crazed fans, wannabe disciples, and aspiring bounty hunters. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z ‘Another reason I’m a vegetarian. Anyway, the second hunter, who wasn’t allowed squirrel meat - he was starving. He just sat there clutching his stomach while his friend ate. Finally the first hunter started feeling guilty. “ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In Wisconsin, as I was driving through, a hunter shot his own guide between the shoulder blades. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the warriors was closer now, his dark eyes fixed on her with a hunter’s focus. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He stole away again and instructed his hidden hunters. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z One of them raised the hollowed horn of a kudu bull to his lips and blew, to give courage to the hunters. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z I walked as quickly as I could, eyes peeled for any sign of the hunters, with Connor and Duuzuu at my side. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z I am a mighty hunter of the deep! City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Veturius rubs a hand through his hair, but a second later his entire body goes still, a deer that’s heard the hunter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z That was the path the hunters used and that Pilate and his father had also used. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In that shop he sometimes made skinning knives out of cracked buzz saw blades and sold them to hunters in the fall for five or six bucks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Recall that Australian/New Guinean animals had evolved for millions of years in the absence of human hunters. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The second lady stares at me like I’m a ruthless butterfly hunter. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z What hunters call dressing an animal is really an undressing. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z He would not hunt with another hound, other than Little Ann, or another hunter, not even my father. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He was very old, but he had been a good man in his youth and a good hunter. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many hunters in the cove and as soon as he spoke they began to carry the otter pelts to the boat. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He was hunter and stalker and slayer, and he belonged with his brothers and sisters in the deep woods, running free beneath a starry sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I don’t think Audubon had this right. I mean, about the hunter.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The two lymers plunged immediately into the covert which the hunters surrounded. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z What I badly needed, I realized, was a kind of hunter- gatherer tutor. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z By doing this, hunters and fishermen all around had lost the land and water they’d stalked and camped on and thrown bait into for most of their lifetimes. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Night provides cover for hunters, making it easy for them to creep up and strike their prey blind. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Many animals could tell the difference between hostile hunters and friendly people by merely looking at them. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are all kinds of hunters,” he said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Maybe it was one of the other bounty hunters. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Some of the poets say he was a king, some a hunter, but most of them say he was a shepherd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z He also became known as the most assiduous and creative hunter of new elements in history, credited with the discovery or codiscovery of twelve transuranics. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Some hunters from Malpais had found her and brought her to the pueblo. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z How odd that she could be a solo book hunter for years and enjoy it, but now it felt like something was missing to be on her own. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z But when the hunter thought of the cub’s mother and was afraid, the mountain-lion cub was startled, and ran away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In the next quarter century amateur bone hunters discovered dozens of what they believed to be ancient skeletons in what they believed to be ancient sediments. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The place of assembly filled quickly; Jack, Simon, Maurice, most of the hunters, on Ralph's right; the rest on the left, under the sun. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z That evening, while we were having supper, a hunter dropped by. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I would not send out hunters, my lord. I would not.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z So it happened that many a time as the day broke Dawn saw the young hunter, and finally she fell in love with him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z When she saw the hunters in the village, Ash was transfixed by the sight of them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Theon did not relish the idea of chasing direwolves through the wood by night; the hunters could easily become the hunted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It had been specially tooled for a Kenyan ivory hunter, and had the range and rapid fire capacity of a Kalashnikov. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z City hunters going out for sport load themselves with food and liquor, but not Mack. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the smaller hunters began to wail. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “Yes, I heard that,” said the seal hunter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She also said Macon’s body rose up from the ground at the first heavy rain, and that the Butlers, or somebody, dumped it in the hunters’ cave one summer night. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The bounty hunter, the killing of their friends, the trip to Earth, all these precautions. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Ten yards below the cave mouth the hunters halted. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "I gave you food," said Jack, "and my hunters will protect you from the beast. Who will join my tribe?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The fire had been big news and every mushroom hunter in California would be out looking for morels there. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Aux soldiers, though not as highly trained as legionnaires and nothing compared to Masks, are still merciless hunters. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “When the hunters leave they will come back.” Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Alternatively, hunters may have caught and ‘adopted’ a lamb, fattening it during the months of plenty and slaughtering it in the leaner season. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here to hunt. Hunt the hunted. Hunt as a hunter.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z It was lined with lifelike tapestries depicting gods and goddesses, soldiers and hunters, ladies and a unicorn. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z From cat to mouse, from the hunter to the hunted. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z A hunter said, “Everyone was in a hurry to get out before another blizzard sets in.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The race of tall hunters, he said to himself. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “I’m not a psychiatrist or a witch hunter and I’m not going to start now.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z From them we take a belief that every American is a natural-born hunter. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Antinous’s words rang in his ears - about the giants in Athens, the impossible trip facing the Argo II, the mysterious hunter Gaia had sent to intercept the Athena Parthenos. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If that hunter had any sense, he hightailed it out of there in a hurry. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z With tears running down my cheeks, I did the only thing a hunter could do. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunters were looking uneasily at the sky, flinching from the stroke of the drops. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z People in Paleolithic societies had led the unsettled life of the hunter and food gatherer, reaping where nature sowed and thus at the mercy of forces that they could neither understand nor control. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of being assigned missions, free hunters were allowed to go looking for trouble. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “You know what—you’re lying, there is no other hunter. You just don’t want to pay out.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Maybe you really did find your perfect bounty hunter.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then Maurice pretended to be the pig and ran squealing into the center, and the hunters, circling still, pretended to beat him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Guardedly, Rick said, “I—don’t see why not. Except that we already have two bounty hunters.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Others would be coupling tonight, creating new people, new hunters for the future of the village as the old ones died of wounds and illness and age. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z People say Grandpa was the greatest hunter in the district. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “All I can tell you is that the Dust hunters are as frightened of it as if it were deadly poison. That is why they imprisoned Lord Asriel.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “We are assuming that you as the hunter had already raised your gun and have to make the decision.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Spying on Diana from the bushes was the hunter Actaeon, unaware of the grim fate awaiting him. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “No, no. There was no danger. I was an accomplished hunter. One of the best. I was never frightened in the forest.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As though he were serenading the rising sun, Jack went on blowing till the shelters were astir and the hunters crept to the platform and the littluns whimpered as now they so frequently did. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z When they had finished eating, the hunter stood up and pointed out the window. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The towering forms of the young hunters crashed to the ground, each pierced by the spear of the other, each slaying and being slain by the only creature he loved. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Each hunter may have gobbled down as much as ten pounds of bison flesh a day. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Later he permitted the installation of a small hunter’s cabin. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Hackers and bounty hunters aren’t exactly known for being great team players. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “A bounty hunter wandering the Dark World,” he murmurs. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Something imaginative, which would slay bounty hunters...whatever they were. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “There are hunters; there are also those who hunt the hunters!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunter had two rifles with him: one with real bullets, the other with immobilizing darts. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Once, when he was seven years old and his family lived near Milwaukee, a drunken hunter drove a snowmobile full-speed into an old birch tree. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Continue north, to the least settled land, the realm of hunters and gatherers. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The two boys together of course, the brave loud hunters, shoulders squared, chins up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z More often, though, hunters stalked individual beasts until they were close enough to throw a spear in the gut. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z ‘So one of the hunters,’ she continued, ‘he wasn’t supposed to eat deer meat. The other guy wasn’t supposed to eat squirrel meat.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “You, Jam, begging for the life of a monster, pleading a plea to the hunter.” Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z On the flannel lining, hunters shot at ducks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z As the “hunters,” totally unnerved and terrified, tried to flee, he sprang after them and soon two more were dragged down, though they still tried desperately to crawl away. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z But these weren’t wild bonobos — they’d been raised with people, and had been cast out of their tiny familiar world and into a strange planet, where the hunters with guns, those mother-killers, were back. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Ash wondered suddenly if Ana and Clara were dancing with the hunters at the royal masque. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Eight or nine men dressed as hunters, armed with swords, staves, and spears, emerged from the side gates and began prowling through the greenery, as if searching for game. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z We were hunter folk, and we saw hunters and dogs, bears and young women, all manner of things of interest to us. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The plot was interesting, at least, about a rogue treasure hunter with a Talent for changing his face—a chameleon, he was called. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He really liked the reverse hunter thing—where the deer go out and shoot the rednecks. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Some people call me Kenyatta, after the great man in Kenya. I am a hunter.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z “We all have. When the hunters bring them in.The other night, remember? They brought them in after the hunt. There was a huge pile over by the butcher’s yard.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She was still alive and the air hunters were over the river. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Hollow sinkers could have evolved into the first floaters, and self propelled floaters into the first hunters. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She swore that there was an Aleut girl among the hunters. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Alone in the woods, out of earshot of my fellow mushroom hunters, I found myself, idiotically, talking to the morels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Frightful was an excellent hunter who rarely missed. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The hunters left many wounded otter behind them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Did you have to be scary in order to be a hunter? Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z To hide from a swarm of hunters was truly going to be a trick. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The little bear was so small it could hide safely beneath its mom, which was roaring and showing her huge fangs at the approaching hunter. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It was with a hunter’s pride that I pulled the raft up to the lifeboat. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But the hunter was still in the house, so he said nothing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “The bounty hunter for the San Francisco Police Department?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Mom had said her uncles and grandpa were great hunters, that it was a family trait. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z You could make even the most terrifying topic easier to talk about by framing it as something that happened to a couple of Cherokee hunters hundreds of years ago. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The photographs these new cameras created were fast becoming known as “snap-shots,” a term originally used by English hunters to describe a quick shot with a gun. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I do not imagine that many members of a hunter/gatherer group had thoughts like these about the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The three hunters still stood over him, surveying the cargo activity. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z But Levi’s tribe of hunters and famous warriors had been robbed of its lands by the immigrant white farmers. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then the hunter suddenly lurched and twisted as he tried to rip the rifle away from his target. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Aurelia sat spellbound—paralyzed, as this apparition, moving with incredible speed, lashed out seemingly in every direction at once, and in moments three of the “hunters” lay sprawled amid the false jungle. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z Jam tried to imagine Lucille’s angels as hunters, remembering how Bitter had told her they’d had to do dark things, hard things. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z And he followed that fear as a hunter follows the signs, the broad, blunt, clawed tracks of the bear, that may at any moment turn on him from the thickets. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z If I don’t, I might end up forfeiting the bounty to some other hunter who can stay in the Championships. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Wild Men had put out a screen of wary hunters, so that no orc or roving spy should learn of the movements in the hills. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z She couldn’t help thinking of the story she’d told Jason - about the Cherokee hunter who had broken his taboo and turned into a snake. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Daring, larger-than-life Bill Harvey was now America's top spy hunter—and he was determined to make his mark in the war against communism. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z “I know who could tell you more,” said the seal hunter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He says that the wild turkey, once abundant in the deciduous forests in these regions, is far more intelligent and can elude even practiced hunters. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The doctor enlisted the help of Evenks, native hunters and fishermen, who lived less than thirty kilometers away. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She remembered the inscription on the tombstone: Home is the sailor, home is the hunter. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Angel looked truly frightened and her large eyes looked like those of a deer, frozen in fear by a hunter’s gun. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z But no matter how fast she ran, or how well she hid, or how many animals helped, she couldn’t escape the sound of the hunter’s stomping footsteps. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He snorted and said he thought a hunter always whooped to his dogs. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s been really hard for him to find hunters suitable for this job. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Then suddenly the line of hunters breaks through the jungle thickets into the small clearing in front of the den. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The herd searched the forest for the hunter’s magic plant and destroyed every single one of them. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The hunters were more silent now, but at this they buzzed again. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He imagined just how it would go: him tying the knot on the pillowcase with the snake wriggling inside, then carrying the sack home like a triumphant bounty hunter. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z I did not, though I feared she would return with the hunters. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z One certainty only Ged had: that he was indeed the hunter now and not the hunted. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Because of the way sound travels, the hunter birds can’t tell where the high-pitched chirp is coming from. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, just for good measure, he squashed the hunter to jelly between his toes. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “You remember old Marksman? The best hunter I ever had.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Again the hunter sprinkled him with bird shot. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But my reflexes have been honed on the streets as a bounty hunter. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Mantell was an excellent doctor and equally gifted bone hunter, but he was unable to support both his talents. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “He shouldn’t have done that,” said the seal hunter. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z With a rising shriek, a shape dropped from the trees and knocked the hunter to the ground. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z A hound and hunters chased a boar toward a fringe of scarlet wool. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I could see my new jacket lying in the ferns, and the hunter looking for it. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The visitors proved to be five pheasant hunters from Oklahoma. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Isidore felt excitement, knowing something of this importance—news that the bounty hunter evidently hadn’t heard. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “That’s an old one,” he said, helping the hunter lift the deer up on his shoulders again. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Above all, the life of a hunter carries with it the threat of deprivation and death by starvation. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Their hunters found no game, and only the flesh of their dead horses filled their bellies. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z We ran like rabbits fleeing a fox, like deer fleeing a hunter, like mice fleeing an owl, leaping, dodging, practically flying through the underbrush. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z So he followed, mysteriously right and assured, and the hunters trod behind him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z So when the news came that the hunters had packed their tents, all of our tribe left the village and hurried toward Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He is one of about two dozen professional hunters who are left in East Africa. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z "I'm not going to be part of Ralph's lot-" He looked along the right-hand logs, numbering the hunters that had been a choir. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “To find yourself a bounty hunters assignment all of a sudden. Or whatever it is you are, Deckard.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z One hunter walked over to the broken snag. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z While the other treasure hunters kept calling out weird word combinations, Kyle slowly rotated in place, scanning the park and the playground. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z But the armed riders made little difference because there were miles and miles of fence and two or three hunters could easily slip between them. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z As he got out his ID Rick said, “I’m a bounty hunter with the department.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She lives in the country and likes to hike in the woods, so she says that the neon colors are necessary to keep drunk hunters from mistaking her for a bear. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z If he was a bounty hunter, as Liam apparently thought, they were probably feeling us out, too. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z These “traps” were covered with sticks and leaves as if to disguise them, and the hunters lurked in the false undergrowth. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z The hunters were screaming with delight Simon's effort fell about him in ruins; the laughter beat him cruelly and he shrank away defenseless to his seat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Now that his goal was in sight, Cluny used all the stealth of a stalking hunter, waiting until the entire horde was in position. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He is one of the world’s leading Ebola hunters. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I spoke with other mushroom hunters who had the same experience. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But I establish the slow hunter's tread I use when tracking game. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z How he looks at the hunter and says, So what? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Captain Orlov and his Aleut hunters moved to the island that morning, making many trips from their ship to the beach of Coral Cove. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, these individuals were known simply as “egg hunters,” but this was quickly truncated to the nickname “gunters.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Even then, the forest was so dangerous that hunters observed a sacred ritual before their outings. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Where a fallen tree dammed the flow, the hunters were forced to loop around a deep green pool, but if the direwolves had done the same they'd left neither print nor spoor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He’d always imagined them as huge noble animals, like lions with wings, but these things reminded him more of vicious pack hunters —flying hyenas. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And the hunters who went there sometimes wondered in private if maybe the white farmer was right after all. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z I’d read about other young people like me trying their luck in the competitive bounty hunter world. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Tom Gehrels, an asteroid hunter at the University of Arizona, thinks that even a year’s warning would probably be insufficient to take appropriate action. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The buzz from the hunters was one of admiration at this handsome behavior. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z One at a time with the ivory hunter’s rifle. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Besides, a hunter needed a gun, and that was one thing I couldn’t have, not until I was twenty-one anyway. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But the one about the cruel hunters in their red coats and the nice boy who felt sorry for the fox and refused to tell them which way it had gone. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Bells were ringing far below, and all men fled before the face of Aragorn; but the Grey Company in their haste rode like hunters, until their horses were stumbling with weariness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Two summers had come and gone and the Aleut hunters had not returned, yet during these days I always looked for them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “They build it high up so it’s harder for hunters to get there.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z That way the hunter knew it would die. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Night thickened about the hunter and the hunted, and snow blew fine across the path that Ged could no longer see. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z They express in visible form the sense of tradition, of family or clan continuity, that sets off the settled life of husbandry from the roving existence of the hunter. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The other two hunters never emerged from the cloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I took a deep breath and threw back my head to give the call of the hunter, but something went wrong. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z What kind of world is it, he asked himself, when an android phones up a bounty hunter and offers him assistance? Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The hunters strode into the hall, all but Ben Bones, who was cursing at the dogs to stop them fighting over the severed head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Not all of them will. Some clans are working with the Dust hunters.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z From the Anfalas, the Langstrand far away, a long line of men of many sorts, hunters and herdsmen and men of little villages, scantily equipped save for the household of Golasgil their lord. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “The greatest hunter in the world and you say I am a coward?” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z It was a delicious lunch, but it took off some of my hunter’s edge. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Her hunters came with her, of course, and they brought a bloody stag’s head inside with them.” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Piggy and the parody were so funny that the hunters began to laugh. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Is an angel not always a hunter, is a hunter not always an angel? it replied. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Walking along in the line, I noticed the beautiful red coats, the caps, and the soft leather boots worn by the other hunters. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z But the hunter also sensed a faint electronic signal. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z “Prince Humperdinck. There is no greater hunter. He can track a falcon on a cloudy day; he can find you.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The Mask drags me down the hallway to the front room as casually as a hunter drags his kill. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The heart symbol can be traced to before the Ice Age, when Cro-Magnon hunters used it in pictograms on cave walls. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z A snap, loud as a hunter’s gun, as the branch gave way beneath him. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Two of the three lions didn’t want anything to do with the Dinka hunters and escaped through gaps in the circle. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are few hiding places Arawn’s hunters will not discover.” The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Inside were pictures of young maidens doing hunter stuff, chasing monsters, shooting bows. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Of course, she said to herself, he had been relieved of his duties and had backtracked the hunters to the kill. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z He had been a hunter all of his life and he knew what to do. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Sliding back to her camp, she heard the grass swish and looked up to see Amaroq and his hunters sweep around her frost heave and stop about five feet away. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z I had seen that chest on the beach during the battle but did not remember that the hunters had taken it with them when they fled. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The hunter laughed at the suggestion which came from this beautiful woman and replied that it would be impossible for him to change his mind. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Rocks showered into the cove from many places along the cliff, striking several of the hunters. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood paralyzed with fear and willed myself to raise the sword inch by inch above my head as Mom kept her eyes locked on the hunter’s eyes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The hunters gathered in a semicircle facing what was now a central avenue leading toward the grand pavilion, and Prince Aidan and Kaisa went forward to meet the King and Queen, bowing deeply to them. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z It had the sleek, aerodynamic design of a hunter, every angle purpose-built to reduce drag to the merest fraction. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Miss Turner said the eastern coyote is a clever hunter. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z That wonderful feeling that only a hunter knows crept over my body. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “And here is a little-known fact, but good hunters believe it is absolutely essential,” he stressed. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z ‘My friend dreamed of a hunter with glowing eyes. If Orion is blind -’ ‘He was blind,’ Hades corrected. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He pressed a key on his desk intercom and said, “Send one of the bounty hunters in here; I don’t care which one. Okay; thank you.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z At the same time, they realized that if anybody could do such a thing, then it would be this brave hunter. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z He came along the path quickly and easily, not running, but moving like an athlete or a hunter. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z She told him about her dreams: the earth swallowing Camp Jupiter, Octavian closing in on Camp Half-Blood and the hunter with the glowing eyes who had shot Reyna in the gut. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z At dark the hunters brought their catch into Coral Cove, and there on the beach the animals were skinned and fleshed. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Egged on by his proselytizing, other weekend bone hunters soon found similar sites with similar crude artifacts. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The life of a hunter is one of hard, seemingly continuous overland travel.... Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got to the clearing a panel truck full of Norvelt Gun Club hunters pulled up. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “And she said, ‘I was hired by the family of the hunter you squashed.’ Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z This hunter married a girl who was soon expecting his child. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z She was playing the returning hunter, and I was the captured prey. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z On their heels, mounted, trotted the Anti-Horse-Thief Society members done up as old-time bounty hunters in big hats and drooping mustaches. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I concluded to myself that if I were the hunter, I would shoot the monkey so that it would no longer have the chance to put other hunters in the same predicament. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The other hunters swarmed over the lion and pierced its flesh with their spears, killing it quickly. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. There was my uncles and all, and some other men,” she said vaguely, not knowing what the Samoyed hunter had told him. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z “It looks just like the woodcutters'. Did you see the man with the tiny gold ear- *V> rings? “He’s a chamois hunter,” I said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z A teen hunter has been convicted of second-degree manslaughter for fatally shooting a hiker he had mistaken for a bear on a popular Washington state trail. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Two of the hog hunters tackled the smallest of the party, pinning her to the ground. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Count yourself lucky! What kind of life with an old bear hunter like Tallow? Nobody has ever stayed with Old Tallow. She drives them off. Eyah!” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z I knew I must likewise hide myself and deceive the hunter. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Tayo nodded and glanced at her; she was grinning at him and watching his face while the hunter spoke. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He only tasted the salt and heard the hunter’s horn in Guitar’s voice. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z How had she ever enjoyed being a solo book hunter before? Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z One of the hunters limped, and I felt a cramp in his calf. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z They had heard men calling back and forth, too—calling like hunters who had a pretty good idea of where their quarry was. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t believe in drinking the warm blood as some hunters did. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “We travelled together from out west. He’s a good hunter.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Historian John Grenier reports that it could be quite lucrative to be a scalp hunter. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z For a long time hunted and hunter held their weird, fleet course, and the day was darkening fast. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The way the mushroom hunters put it is to get your eyes on. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The men said that the women had taken the tasks that rightfully were theirs and now that they had become hunters the men looked down upon them. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z But I never went to the cove and whenever I saw the hunters with their long spears skimming over the water, I was angry, for these animals were my friends. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He even made him a tiny red cap, such as hunters wear, so that he would be easier to see. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z The two hunters who carry the sacks reach the edge of the forest, where their horses wait. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z He gives a charming picture of Atalanta among the hunters which I have put into my account, but often, as in the description of the boar, he is so exaggerated, he verges on the ridiculous. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z They talked of nothing else and made special beer for the brave hunter to drink while he told them of how he had found the cubs in the darkest part of the darkest forest. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z It is when the moon rises that the hyena’s day starts, and it proves to be a devastating hunter. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Somehow his great-grandfather had survived for seventeen days, before he was rescued by a couple of rattlesnake hunters. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z All of us, for example, are descended at some point from hunter- gatherers, and many hunter-gatherers, by all accounts, had a pretty leisurely life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z If she stayed on as Yedsha’s assistant dragon hunter, she could take them to places far away from Håkon, and then they wouldn’t find him. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z To a mushroom hunter, a good chanterelle spot is a closely guarded secret. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z |
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