Meanings of huntress (huntresses) in English

At the nesting-season, all this tiny world of huntresses is filled with astounding activity.

Artemis let her become one of her maiden huntresses, but Aphrodite got her revenge.

Other huntresses have already set us the problem; others will set it to us again.

The Woodlander huntresses did best with the few prey available that were soft, slow, and tasty.

Different veteran huntresses had experienced separate conditions of rain, enemy combat, and the nectar-milking of aphids and other sap-suckers.

Madame Thiers wore a rich moyen age costume; Madame de Plaisance headed a whole quadrille of hunters and huntresses.

Those girls are born huntresses.

For all these huntresses there are moments of inaction which the presence of a fresh prey is powerless to disturb.

This sense of opportunistic curiosity that has been with her ancestors since they were tiny, thoughtless huntresses, is strong in her.

The implacable legion of hunters and huntresses did not fail to start on my heels with renewed ardor and stupid mirth.

Plunkett attempts to seize Nancy, but the huntresses attack him and chase him away, leaving Lionel and Lady Henrietta together again.

Her feet are sometimes bare, and sometimes adorned with a sort of buskin, which was worn by the huntresses of old.

To this end she had founded the Lunch Club, an association composed of herself and several other indomitable huntresses of erudition.

For the hunters and huntresses targets were placed upon the trees; all kinds of fire-arms and cross-bows and arrows lay near them.

This day at the Earl's there is a great masque of Dian and her huntresses, satyrs, fauns, all manner of sylvan folk.

None of the Bembex-wasps, whether chosen among the huntresses of the Gadfly or among the lovers of the House-fly rabble, satisfied my aspirations.