settings
Gulliver’s Travels vocabulary
3 sport related terms
help & settings
[x]
-
quarry
-
tags: [sport]
► definition
Definition:1. (a) A part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.(b) A heap of game killed.2. The object of the chase; the animal hunted for; game; especially, the game hunted with hawks.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
► uses
Uses:
He had a look at all the details of the hunt, sent a pack of hounds and huntsmen on ahead to find the quarry,
William Shakespeare. Hamlet
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
---
Buck had already dragged down a stray part-grown calf; but he wished strongly for larger and more formidable quarry, and he came upon it one day on the divide at the head of the creek.
Jack London. The Call of the Wild (1903)
---
some eagle had got the ring of my box in his beak, with an intent to let it fall on a rock, like a tortoise in a shell, and then pick out my body, and devour it: for the sagacity and smell of this bird enables him to discover his quarry at a great distance, though better concealed than I could be within a two-inch board.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
---
my quarry was an old friend of the family,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
---
Fort. This quarry cries on havoc. O proud Death,
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell
---
So on by degrees, until Françoise and my aunt, the quarry and the hunter, could never cease from trying to forestall each other’s devices. My mother was afraid lest Françoise should develop a genuine hatred of my aunt, who was doing everything in her power to annoy her.
Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 1]
help with search