game
noun
an amusement or pastime.
gameless
-
a word derived from
game.
Example Sentences
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If her people want a gameless state, except for migratory waterfowl, all they need do is to slumber on, and they surely will have it.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
Of her upland game birds, only a fraction remains, and as her laws stand to-day, she is destined to become in the near future a gameless state.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by William Temple Hornaday
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 William Temple Hornaday
There I entered skulkingly, as a gameless hunter may, and hid my untrophied head beneath a mound of ancient hay, not without the mustiness of its age.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862 by Various
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 Sir Richard Francis Burton
