The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, 9. köideThomas Spencer Baynes C. Scribner's Sons, 1879 |
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... practice of which is usually termed hawking . Falconry was for many ages of the Old World's history one of the principal sports . Probably it may be considered as having been always as purely a sport as it is at the present day ; for ...
... practice of which is usually termed hawking . Falconry was for many ages of the Old World's history one of the principal sports . Probably it may be considered as having been always as purely a sport as it is at the present day ; for ...
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... practice of the art . Useless or obsolete terms are omitted : - Bate . - A hawk is said to " bate " when she flutters off from the fist , perch , or block , whether from wildness , or for exercise , or in the attempt to chase . Bewits ...
... practice of the art . Useless or obsolete terms are omitted : - Bate . - A hawk is said to " bate " when she flutters off from the fist , perch , or block , whether from wildness , or for exercise , or in the attempt to chase . Bewits ...
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... practice long disused in England . Serving a hawk.- Driving out quarry which has taken refuge , or has " put in ... practices are re- sorted to which cannot be here described . It is through 29 hawks when they begin to prey for ...
... practice long disused in England . Serving a hawk.- Driving out quarry which has taken refuge , or has " put in ... practices are re- sorted to which cannot be here described . It is through 29 hawks when they begin to prey for ...
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... practice in foreign countries is Schlegel's Traité de Fauconnerie . This magnificent book , in the words of a very able writer in the Quarterly Review for July 1875 , " is a worthy monument of the noble art it describes ; the extent and ...
... practice in foreign countries is Schlegel's Traité de Fauconnerie . This magnificent book , in the words of a very able writer in the Quarterly Review for July 1875 , " is a worthy monument of the noble art it describes ; the extent and ...
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... practice is the rule of life " among thirty millions of respectable people " ( Wilson , Abode of Snow ) . As to the ... practice exist even for a single day ? " He would have found the practice among the Tsonnotouan Iroquois . " La ...
... practice is the rule of life " among thirty millions of respectable people " ( Wilson , Abode of Snow ) . As to the ... practice exist even for a single day ? " He would have found the practice among the Tsonnotouan Iroquois . " La ...
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