Leather Hunting

To drop catches is to madden the bowler not unnaturally, and to lengthen the period of leather-hunting. ❋ Various (N/A)

But give him a good steady spell of leather-hunting, and you will know him for what he is, a mere _dilettante_, a dabbler, in a word, a worm, who ought never to be allowed to play at all. ❋ Unknown (1928)

Pringle, who during the luncheon interval had encountered his young friends the Ashbys, and had been duly taunted by them on the subject of leather-hunting, was top scorer with forty-one. ❋ Unknown (1928)

In spite of the fact that he himself was playing in the match today, and might under the circumstances reasonably look forward to a considerable dose of leather-hunting, the task of announcing the bad news to Norris appeared to have a most elevating effect on his spirits: ❋ Unknown (1928)

And then, when his "eye" is in, he will give the Etonians such leather-hunting as they never had before. ❋ Horace Annesley Vachell (1908)

House that it required "a high standard of physical fitness," and that leather-stitching was as laborious as leather-hunting. ❋ Various (1898)

a short interval of rest from our exhilarating game of leather-hunting, which had now been going on for two hours and more. ❋ Unknown (N/A)