I never wish to go to a great castle again; above all, I never wish to go to a little shooting-box. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I had forgotten the ducks and the cold, and, suddenly presented as a shooting-box in inclement weather, the Dulcibella lost ground in my estimation, which she had latterly gained. ❋ Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 (1955)
Cadwallader, and is leased to a club of gentlemen; they have built a very snug little shooting-box, where they leave their guns and ❋ Henry A. Murray (N/A)
Replete with every comfort, a shooting-box for the sportsman and a sure refuge for the overworked, the house-boat represents to me the acme of leisure and repose. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
You know I've got the finest little shooting-box located there you ever heard tell of. ❋ Silas K. Boone (N/A)
And then the shadows will grow longer, and the sun will set behind the hills in a mass of purple, red, and gold; and it will be time for us to turn our faces towards the shooting-box that will shelter us through the long watches of the summer's night. ❋ Various (N/A)
About midday, Captain Lund drove down on the ice to draw up the boat owned by his sons; after which he was to return a second time for the decoys and shooting-box of the homeward-bound sportsmen. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
Mr. Eildon spent six weeks at a shooting-box belonging to his uncle the duke, after which he went to London, where he got a post under government -- a place which was by no means a sinecure, but where there was plenty of work not over-paid. ❋ Various (N/A)
The first essential for shooting-trips up the Yangtse is a good house-boat or light draft yacht of from ten to fifteen tons, into which you pack every requisite, and which is in reality your floating shooting-box for the time being. ❋ Oliver George Ready (N/A)
I went home, and spent a month in a shooting-box on the Highlands; then I went to Ireland to visit a friend; and then to London. ❋ James De Mille (N/A)
Prince Nicolaus had been engaged in carrying out a scheme for the rebuilding of his shooting-box near Süttör on a scale of magnificence rivalling that of ❋ Francis Jameson Rowbotham (N/A)
Often these establishments were something more than a mere hunting-lodge, or shooting-box, indeed they generally aspired to the proportions of what may readily be accepted as ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)
Returning to the old berg, the party took down the shooting-box from the top of the cave, and filling it with the remaining boughs, and a part of the seal-skins, blubber, ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
The place had been let as a shooting-box in recent years, but neither landlord nor tenant had thought it worth while to spend any money on reparation or embellishment. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
Affeton Castle has been for many years altogether in ruins, but in the middle of the last century Sir George Stucley roofed over the old gate-house and made it habitable as a shooting-box. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
The laps were then "turned" over the edge of an axe with a billet of wood cut from the old cross-bars of Davies's shooting-box, which were young ash saplings. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
Romsey in the distance, and (the horse having stopped again) Cabby points out Queen Elizabeth's shooting-box across the fields. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Bullers at one time lived chiefly in Cornwall, and Downes was originally a shooting-box. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
Palm-tree House belonged for more than twenty years to a British merchant, who simply provided accommodation for any sportsman liking to come out and put up for a week or so outside Mogador: it has still the air of a shooting-box. ❋ Isabel Savory (N/A)
In the neighbourhood of Rambouillet was the famous Chateau de Chasse, or royal shooting-box, which Louis XV was fond of making a place of rendezvous. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)