Reminiscences of an Old Sportsman, Том 2Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860 - 308 страници |
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... flight across the cliff to the sea , over which they continued their course for about three hundred yards , when , as if intimidated or affected by the element , the whole were observed to drop into the water . Twelve of them were soon ...
... flight across the cliff to the sea , over which they continued their course for about three hundred yards , when , as if intimidated or affected by the element , the whole were observed to drop into the water . Twelve of them were soon ...
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... flight At an hernshaw that flies aloft on wing , The whiles they strike at him with heedless might , The weary fowl his bill doth backward wring ; On which the first , whose force doth bring Herself quite through the body , doth engore ...
... flight At an hernshaw that flies aloft on wing , The whiles they strike at him with heedless might , The weary fowl his bill doth backward wring ; On which the first , whose force doth bring Herself quite through the body , doth engore ...
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... flight , And to bestryde a good and lusty stede . " Hawking was performed on horseback or on foot , as occasion required . On horseback when in the fields or open country , and on foot when in the woods and covers . In following the ...
... flight , And to bestryde a good and lusty stede . " Hawking was performed on horseback or on foot , as occasion required . On horseback when in the fields or open country , and on foot when in the woods and covers . In following the ...
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... flight did not please him , and he was so wroth that for this fault he was on the point of beheading two thousand of his falconers , scolding them exceedingly for want of diligence in the care of his hawks , when the one he was fond of ...
... flight did not please him , and he was so wroth that for this fault he was on the point of beheading two thousand of his falconers , scolding them exceedingly for want of diligence in the care of his hawks , when the one he was fond of ...
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... The docility of the birds , the rapidity of their flight , and the fatal swoop , as I have been informed by an eye - witness , is a marvel of perfection . HAWKING IN MOROCCO . 185 In some countries in the 184 REMINISCENCES OF A SPORTSMAN .
... The docility of the birds , the rapidity of their flight , and the fatal swoop , as I have been informed by an eye - witness , is a marvel of perfection . HAWKING IN MOROCCO . 185 In some countries in the 184 REMINISCENCES OF A SPORTSMAN .
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