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
For instance, I have never met with any account of regular assemblages of black game in Scotland, yet these assemblages are so well known in Germany and Scandinavia that they have special names.
From The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex Volume II (1st Edition) by Darwin, Charles
A tenant may now claim compensation for damage to crops by deer, pheasants, partridges, grouse, and black game.
From A Short History of English Agriculture by Curtler, W. H. R. (William Henry Ricketts)
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
"Bears, wolves, deer, besides, of course, black game, capercailzie, ptarmigan—every thing one could desire."
From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton
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