black tracker
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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I meant to get the boy and bring him back, but I suppose I might as well have tried to follow a black tracker into a tropic jungle as to follow the trail of Red Knife through those Tung-sha hills.
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One night, three weeks after this, and whilst Mr Sampson was recovering from his injuries, and a force of constables, with a black tracker, were scouring the country for Walter, my mother called we children to her bedroom.
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Then, nearly three months after, "Moses," as the black tracker was named, walked into Somerset carrying his carbine and revolver, and told another story, which was accepted by the authorities as true.
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They had with them a capable black tracker who had figured in recent events in the Wombat Ranges.
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When the lantern was brought, Mike continued his detective operations, nose and eyes close to the floor, like a black tracker.
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