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sportsman
1. Each was a fine sportsman in his own right, but to Mr
2. Hasting's chagrin he approached the one sportsman in his store, perhaps then present in the entire Tahoe lake region, who had for several years made his living as Wilderness Guide and Instructor, in short: a Professional Sportsman
3. The Sportsman received the proffered rod, noted the brief specifications inscribed on it indicating its intended line weight, length, and date of manufacture, then he carefully looked over its construction, made a flick of the wrist gesture to test its flex and handed it back to Mr
4. “But it shouldn't be!” the Sportsman countered, “There should sound a pop like the uncorking of a bottle of wine
5. I am indeed surprised by your ignorance of the presence in your own community of an internationally renowned rod-maker, and not fifty paces from this very spot! Might I direct you just down the boardwalk to the Mercantile? There you will find not this sad pole's equal, but its lord and master!” The Sportsman exclaimed; then added, “I'm sure the tackle you sell is adequate for the leisure fishing interests of the tourists or stray visitor who might of caprice decide to 'go fish a bit, since there's a lake here and all,' but do not impugn the truly exquisite work of master craftsmen by putting these on offer for anything but what they are
6. Once outside, the Sportsman led his two friends as he had just indicated, fifty paces to the hardware store
7. The Sportsman glanced in the indicated location and looked back at George with an uncertain grin
8. The Sportsman then, with just respect, removed one of the finished rods from its perch
9. ” The Sportsman defended himself, “While on holiday in Scotland, I was offered a go with one rod of Livingson's construction, by a British gentleman who boasted of its unparalleled performance
10. ” The Sportsman continued, “Then this Tournament; I was entered and rooms arranged for me by a former client in repayment for services rendered
11. “True,” the Sportsman allowed, “But do those stores have a Cantonese proprietor and a Shoshone wife? Those were the only specifics I could wheedle from my curious British friend,” he intimated
12. Livingson, I am most interested in negotiating for the purchase of this rod,” the Sportsman began
13. The Sportsman and his companions, after completing satisfactory negotiations and making due payment for rod and reel, went back to the Hasting's Equipment Store
14. Hasting's face next to the Sportsman as he was guided step by minute step through the inspection
15. Harry looked away as the gentlemen approached the door to exit the shop, but heard clearly, and remembered ever after as long as he lived, the parting words the Sportsman left with all in earshot, “Mr
16. The tall man next to him, who had listened to the entire exchange from when the Sportsman and his friends returned and left, said simply, “He thinks he's Buffalo Bill Cody, and he's right! You didn't recognize him? He's in the papers often enough?” The tall man shook his head in pity at the shopkeeper and walked away
17. Harry ran home, tears streaming down his face and with a grin that might become fixed, to tell every one in his family who the Sportsman was
18. The horde had lucked out earlier on that week when, using the weapons that they had, they had stormed the Sportsman Gun Center in Stephendale
19. provides the most gain for the sportsman
20. Now that a sportsman has been nominated to the Rajya Sabha, a good precedent has been set
21. You have to be a sportsman for that
22. Cliff, the real sportsman and all rounder, manages a par 3 with his handicap of as much as five, and he wins the game easily
23. A sportsman at willingness not only pushes their limit, but employs self-discipline, will power, organization skills and is willing to break their boundaries for excellence
24. The 80-year old sportsman carries a mountain of sporting achievements, having previously organised the Mollymook Fun Run and competed in over 26 full marathons
25. One of the managers at the Sportsman Warehouse is almost shocked when I show him my poor, wounded sock
26. The age of this gentleman of ours was bordering on fifty; he was of a hardy habit, spare, gaunt-featured, a very early riser and a great sportsman
27. sportsman, emboldened by the very freedom he could wish, wantonly
28. The sport was bad; Franz only succeeded in killing a few partridges, and, like every unsuccessful sportsman, he returned to the boat very much out of temper
29. He was a sportsman, was Godfrey, down to his marrow, and he wouldn't have stopped his training and let in his skipper if it were not for some cause that was too strong for him
30. When we had sufficiently graduated our advances towards the main point, by toying, kissing, clipping, feeling my breasts, now round and plump, feeling that part of me I might call a furnace mouth, from the prodigious intense heat his fiery touches had rekindled there, my young sportsman, emboldened by the very freedom he could wish, wontonly takes my hand, and carries it to that enormous machine of his, that stood with a stiffness! a hardness! an upward bend of erection! and which, together with it bottom dependence, the inestimable bulse of ladies jewels, formed a grand showout of goods indeed! Then its dimensions, mocking either grasp or span, almost renewed my terrors
31. They heard a shrill whistle in the distance, and in the exact time, so well known to the sportsman, two seconds later— another, a third, and after the third whistle the hoarse, guttural cry could be heard
32. Of course it has the sort of excitement about it that the sportsman feels when he lies beside the water-course and waits for the big game
33. Besides that, he had that feeling of concentrated excitement that every sportsman experiences as he approaches the scene of action
34. Stepan Arkadyevitch evidently had the same desire, and on his face Levin saw the look of anxiety always present in a true sportsman when beginning shooting, together with a certain good-humored slyness peculiar to him
35. "Lord John Roxton's reputation as a sportsman and a traveler is, of course, world-famous," said the chairman; "at the same time it would certainly be as well to have a member of the Press upon such an expedition
36. "I won't undertake to say what it was, but I'll risk my reputation as a sportsman that it wasn't any bird that ever I clapped eyes on in my life
37. Although Sir James was a sportsman, he had some other feelings towards women than towards grouse and foxes, and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase
38. The hounds of that ardent young sportsman Rostov had not merely reached hard winter condition, but were so jaded that at a meeting of the huntsmen it was decided to give them a three days’ rest and then, on the sixteenth of September, to go on a distant expedition, starting from the oak grove where there was an undisturbed litter of wolf cubs
39. Count Ilya Rostov, though not at heart a keen sportsman, knew the rules of the hunt well, and rode to the bushy edge of the road where he was to stand, arranged his reins, settled himself in the saddle, and, feeling that he was ready, looked about with a smile
40. A judge of horses and a sportsman, he had lately procured himself a large, fine, mettlesome, Donets horse, dun- one could outgallop him
41. The landowner to whom Nicholas went was a bachelor, an old cavalryman, a horse fancier, a sportsman, the possessor of some century-old brandy and some old Hungarian wine, who had a snuggery where he smoked, and who owned some splendid horses
42. Like an experienced sportsman he knew that the beast was wounded, and wounded as only the whole strength of Russia could have wounded it, but whether it was mortally wounded or not was still an undecided question
43. O vanity! The patching up of everything with big words! a kitchen is a laboratory, a dancer is a professor, an acrobat is a gymnast, a boxer is a pugilist, an apothecary is a chemist, a wigmaker is an artist, a hodman is an architect, a jockey is a sportsman, a wood-louse is a pterigybranche
44. Sir John was a sportsman, Lady Middleton a mother
45. In showing kindness to his cousins therefore he had the real satisfaction of a good heart; and in settling a family of females only in his cottage, he had all the satisfaction of a sportsman; for a sportsman, though he esteems only those of his sex who are sportsmen likewise, is not often desirous of encouraging their taste by admitting them to a residence within his own manor
46. The ignorant or reckless sportsman often shoots the parent at such a time, and leaves these innocents to fall a prey to some prowling beast or bird, or gradually mingle with the decaying leaves which they so much resemble
47. For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman; tricks which they will have less need to practise in Louisiana bayous
48. They will come regularly every evening to particular trees, where the cunning sportsman lies in wait for them, and the distant orchards next the woods suffer thus not a little
49. I have everything, thank the Lord! If you are not bragging but are a real sportsman, I'll show you everything
50. Like a sportsman looking for game, her entire activity consisted in finding occasion for serving others