black game
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Dressed in their black game jersies, they laughed and teased one another like privileged children of royalty.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
I remember once, on such a day, taking a noble sportsman who was very keen to shoot a blackcock, up to some black game sitting on a thorn hedge.
From The Confessions of a Poacher by Anonymous
In that black game I won, I won!
From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Margaret Widdemer
Nor does the loss of our black game prove the only gap in the Fauna Selborniensis; for another beautiful link in the chain of beings is wanting.
From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Henry Morley
By way of variety you are sometimes bidden to assist at a neighbouring "drive" for black game and roe.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Beatrice Violet Graham Greville
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