"Sportsman" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... something over middle size, but with a stoop forward that shortened him to something beneath it. His dress was ragged homespun, the cast-off clothes of some sportsman, and in his arms he bore a bundle of sticks and heather-roots which marked his calling. I knew him for a tramp who long had wandered in the place, but I could not account for the whole-voiced shout of greeting ...
— The Moon Endureth--Tales and Fancies • John Buchan
... surprised at that. You're so good a sportsman that I should think you'd see that if I do what you ask there will be only one ...
— The Inner Shrine • Basil King
... to bring in the game, and the doctor's son got both feet wet. But the turkey was a gobbler and of good size, and he was very proud when he had the game over his shoulder in true sportsman's style. ...
— Young Hunters of the Lake • Ralph Bonehill
... anything to do with mining. He and Hunting Dog really come as hunters, and he has an understanding with me that when the expedition is over I shall pay them the same as they would earn from any English sportsman who might engage them as guides and hunters, and that I shall take their shares in whatever we may make. I need not say that if it turns out as well as we expect, the Indians will get as many blankets and as much ammunition as will last them their lives. You can't get a red-skin to dig. ...
— In The Heart Of The Rockies • G. A. Henty
... at one another in blank dismay, and seemed to feel just as though the enemy were to "bag" them, as a sportsman does the game he has brought down. I did not despair yet. From the wheel-house I had surveyed the surroundings, and a plan had occurred to me by which I hoped to work the Adieno out of her ...
— Breaking Away - or The Fortunes of a Student • Oliver Optic
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