Careful Words

hunter (n.)

The hunter and the deer a shade.

Philip Freneau (1752-1832): The Indian Burying-Ground.

The hunter and the deer a shade.

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): O'Connor's Child. Stanza 5.

Kathleen mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking,

The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill.

Anne Crawford (1734-1801): Kathleen Mavourneen.

A mighty hunter, and his prey was man.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Windsor Forest. Line 61.