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Definition of Huntresses
1. huntress [n] - See also: huntress
Lexicographical Neighbors of Huntresses
Literary usage of Huntresses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book-hunter in Paris: Studies Among the Bookstalls and the Quays by Octave Uzanne (1893)
"... BOOK-HUNTERS AND BOOK-Huntresses. CHARACTERS AND FACES. ET us begin with '
The chase is the image of war,' which is one of those phrases that many ..."
2. Natural History, Lore and Legend: Being Some Few Examples of Quaint and By by Frederick Edward Hulme (1895)
"... elephant—Kindliness to lost travellers—Ethiopian huntresses—Difference between
the creations of Fancy and of Nature—Elephants cold-blooded —Hippopotamus ..."
3. Frederick the Great and His Family: An Historical Novel by Luise Mühlbach (1869)
"For the hunters and huntresses targets were placed upon the trees ; all kinds of
fire-arms and cross-bows and arrows lay near them. ..."
4. Our Poets of Today by Howard Willard Cook (1918)
"Coming to thy call What huntresses are these? What hallowed chase ? ...
Those huntresses, they are my hallowed desires— My unquenched selves with ..."
5. Poems and Plays by Percy MacKaye (1916)
"Coming to thy call What huntresses are these ? What hallowed chase? ...
Those huntresses, they are my hallowed desires — My unquenched selves with ..."
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