Careful Words

hunting (n.)

hunting (adj.)

  Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Johnsoniana. Kearsley. 606.

  Hunting was the labour of the savages of North America, but the amusement of the gentlemen of England.

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784): Johnsoniana. Kearsley. 606.

And that one hunting, which the Devil design'd

For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Theodore and Honoria. Line 227.