Example Sentences

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His wife, however, was unwilling to go to Florida, and she was not long in convincing the hunter that he would soon tire of a gameless country.

From Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground by Skinner, Constance Lindsay

Twenty-five or fifty years hence, if we have a birdless and gameless continent, let it not be said that the zoologists of America helped to bring it about by wicked apathy.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

We have reached the point where the alternatives are long closed seasons or a gameless continent; and we must choose one or the other, speedily.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

In their march of eight days through this barren and gameless region, their provisions had become quite exhausted.

From Christopher Carson by Abbott, John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot)

He is not king of the African forest; he fears the Njego or leopard and, as lions will not live in these wet, wooded, and gameless lands, he can hardly have expelled King Leo.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir