Hunting Piece

Louis Champney might have left him his hunting-piece, which as a boy he had coveted, just for the sake of his name -- ❋ Mary E. Waller (N/A)

Progressive inventions finally displaced this rifle in military use, but for the accuracy of the shot it has never been surpassed, and it is to-day a loved relic and a valued hunting-piece. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

An army revolver, a great Western six-shooter, a fine little hunting-piece, a grim Ghoorka knife and an assegai, which I recognised from similar treasures on the barrack wall of an English friend of mine -- an infantry major -- one or two bayonets, a curious Japanese sword and a curved dagger whose workmanship was quite unknown to me, completed this decoration, which was the only one on the walls. ❋ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1918)

Finally the snobbish string-orchestra from Boston, which played only the most exclusive music, began to tune up, and at length, after much mysterious wigwagging of signals to play, it played a hunting-piece. ❋ Rupert Hughes (1914)

Nick had not his father's watch with him, but Herbert Watrous carried a handsome gold hunting-piece, which was now consulted and showed it was nearly two o'clock. ❋ Edward Sylvester Ellis (1878)

The subject was a hunting-piece; and as the leafy boughs of the forest-trees, branching over the tapestry, formed the predominant colour, the apartment had thence acquired its name of the Green Chamber. ❋ Unknown (1845)

The lower panes of the windows of this room were of stained glass, of vivid tints; but the upper panes were untinged, in order that the light should not be disturbed which fell through them upon two magnificent pictures; one a hunting-piece, by ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)

There was an old hunting-piece painted on a panel over one of the chimney-pieces; the figures were portraits of my ancestors. ❋ Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell (1837)

Tabley-hall in Cheshire singularly rude and grotesque, though dated so late as 1619, containing a hunting-piece and the figures of Lucrece and ❋ Lucy Aikin (1822)

Even Titian never made a hunting-piece of a gusto so fresh and lusty, and so near the first ages of the world as this. ❋ William Hazlitt (1804)

Amongst the rest was a curious hunting-piece, in which Semiramis on horseback was throwing her javelin at a leopard, and her husband Ninus piercing a lion. ❋ Charles Rollin (1701)

"That will be with the good hunting-piece in my master's hands, at first -- to teach him confidence. ❋ Zamin Ki Dost (1905)