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'Well, yer see them boys was a-hawking their cheap toys in the neighbourhood, and when they got wind of my success they comes round to see, and they remains on account of the crowd.
So she could not go a-hawking, neither could she shoot with the bow, and her attendants the women, bound about the middle and spreading out above and below like bolsters, and the men, who wore their immense scolloped hats falling over their ears even at meal-times excited disgust and derision by the noises they made when they ate. The Master Viridus had Katharine Howard in his keeping.
"Only, sir," said Joceline, "only perhaps your honour might not wish to see him, being the same who, not long since" He paused. "Sent my rapier a-hawking through the firmament, thou wouldst say? Why, when did I take spleen at a man for standing his ground against me? Roundhead as he is, man, I like him the better of that, not the worse. I hunger and thirst to have another turn with him.
There they lay till morn, when Johann summoned them to prepare for their excursion to the Duke's gardens at Zachan. How his Highness, Duke Barnim the elder, went a-hawking at Marienfliess Item, of the shameful robbery at Zachan, and how burgomaster Appelmann remonstrates with his abandoned son.
And then, while we talked, one of her fellow maids came hurriedly to call her, for her Grace would go a-hawking, and Damaris was in attendance. So I swore I would see her again to-day though 'twere but for a moment." The rowers brought the wherry to the Palace landing. Sir Mortimer, stepping out upon the broad stairs, began to mount them somewhat slowly, Sedley and Robin-a-dale following him.
"I'll be proud to go a-hawking with you." Jenny's most commonplace appearance her homely words had a soothing effect on Bet. "I'll go with you presently. Jenny," she answered. "But now may I go to your room, and may I stay alone there for for say an hour?" Jenny's beaming face fell. In her rough, untutored heart she had already conceived an affection for Bet.
Travelling, and his increased acquaintance with the world, has enlarged the range without lowering the pitch of Sir Humphry's mind an allusion I have borrowed from an entertaining essay on training hawks sent to me by Sir John Sebright. Do you know that there is at this moment a gentleman in Ireland, near Belfast, who trains hawks and goes a-hawking a Mr. Sinclair?
The king turned to go back to the city. The Duke of Burgundy was angry, saying that the king was going a-hawking. "You would take him too far," rejoined Juvenal; "your people are in travelling dress, and you have your trumpeters with you." The duke took leave of the king, said business required his presence in Flanders, and went off as fast as he could.
But to-day the river has receded and a broad strip of grass intervenes. One of my best Indian days was that on which Colonel Sir Umar Hayat Khan took us out a-hawking. Sir Umar is himself something of a hawk an impressive figure in his great turban with long streamers, his keen aquiline features and blackest of hair.
By way of diversion, gentlemen hunted and fished and rode a-hawking and amicably slashed and battered one another in tournaments: but their really serious pursuit was lovemaking, after the manner of chivalrous persons, who knew that the King's trumpets would presently be summoning them into less softly furnished fields of action, from one or another of which they would return feet foremost on a bier.
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