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With all his sportsman-like qualities and skill in his craft, our friend is not truly a sportsman.

From Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration by Buck, Walter J.

Lumley shot a brace right and left, taking the two last that rose with sportsman-like precision.

From The Big Otter by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

But the sportsman-like qualities are not specially inculcated by the disciples of Loyola, nor were perhaps highly esteemed in the Germany of that date.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.

Merton put on serious and sportsman-like airs as he questioned me, and it was evident that he expected to add largely to our income from the game he should kill.

From Driven Back to Eden by Roe, Edward Payson

A fisherman will have his fun seeing and photographing the wonderful leaps, and conquering the fish, and when all this is over it would be sportsman-like to let him go.

From Tales of Fishes by Grey, Zane