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Yet in almost every other way he was slow, and easily influenced by anyone who took the trouble: Mike Terrell lost a year of Kershaw baseball for sending Ben on a snipe hunt.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 14, 2014

Edouard Daladier is firmly determined that if the London Conference is a snipe hunt, it will not be France that is left holding the bag.

From Time Magazine Archive

No mullet jumped into the boat, and, as we motored home, I wondered if we had been on the fishing equivalent of a snipe hunt.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Australia they revived the snipe hunt, victimizing a U.S. officer, and taught local restaurateurs to cut and cook T-bone steaks.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the way she settled herself into the seat, all the while regarding him with those clear penetrating blue eyes, told him she was going on no snipe hunt.

From The Black Tide by Stangland, Arthur G.




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