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Hunting ground   /hˈəntɪŋ graʊnd/   Listen
Hunting ground

noun
1.
A place where opportunities abound.
2.
An area in which game is hunted.





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"Hunting ground" Quotes from Famous Books



... I have seen, has never been the home of Indians, not even their hunting ground to any great extent, above the lower slopes of the base. They are said to be afraid of fire-mountains and geyser basins as being the dwelling places of dangerously powerful and unmanageable gods. However, it is food and their relations ...
— Steep Trails • John Muir
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... of Guildford nothing now remains — even the site is not known with any certainty, though it is supposed to have occupied the spot where Guildford Park farm now stands. Its extensive park covered a large area of ground, and was a favoured hunting ground for ...
— In the Days of Chivalry • Evelyn Everett-Green
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... hunting ground. My wife is a singularly feminine creature, candid, sympathetic, and impulsive. Once her conversation was my delight, and her ideas a source of unfailing pleasure. Now I worked her. She was a gold mine of those amusing but ...
— Waifs and Strays - Part 1 • O. Henry
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... expected, a very picturesque and exciting species of hunting. The game which Lothbroc was going to seek consisted of the wild fowl which frequents sometimes, in vast numbers, the cliffs and shores of the islands in those seas. Before he reached his hunting ground, however, he was overtaken by a storm, and his boat was driven by it out to sea. Accustomed to all sorts of adventures and dangers by sea and by land, and skilled in every operation required in all possible emergencies, Lothbroc contrived to keep his boat before the wind, ...
— King Alfred of England - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott
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... has posed for H. F. without being aware of the fact that he was making a sketch. For instance, in his happy hunting ground—Parliament—Brown, M.P., say, comes up to him in the Lobby: 'Ha! I see you are up to ...
— The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Harry Furniss
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