Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 17, 2025
Thus, a breach of the game-laws would be regarded by the public as a disgrace to the guilty individual, precisely as an act of poaching would damage the character of a civilized person. The rights of game are among the first rudiments of property.
"You know in spite of all the Labour Governments and strange doings in Parliament, there are still pretty strict laws against poaching." "Poaching, guvner? I wouldnt poach. I respect what's yours, just as I respect what's my own. Trespassing maybe.
Brooke, not being taken unawares, got the talk under his own control. "Chettam, now," he replied; "he finds fault with me, my dear; but I should not preserve my game if it were not for Chettam, and he can't say that that expense is for the sake of the tenants, you know. It's a little against my feeling: poaching, now, if you come to look into it I have often thought of getting up the subject.
"They confessed to poaching on Monsieur Stangerson's estates, and it was while they were poaching, on the night of the crime, that they were found not far from the pavilion at the moment when the outrage was being committed. Some rabbits they caught in that way were sold by them to the landlord of the Donjon Inn, who served them to his customers, or sent them to Paris.
This was indignantly decided by an overwhelming majority in the negative; indeed, there was but one vote on the Poaching side, and that was the vote of the orator who had undertaken to advocate it, and who became quite an obnoxious character particularly to the Dullborough 'roughs, who were about as well informed on the matter as most other people.
Many instances might be given of his audacity in the face of the lordly magistrates before whom he appeared. Here is one that is typical. Lloyd George was retained to defend four men who were charged with illegally taking fish from prohibited waters in other words, accused of poaching, the most deadly sin of all to the owners of the land.
"You see, master, since my old man died, I've lived all alone up here. I've a bit to live on not over much, but enough. All the same, if I can save a bit by getting a hare or a rabbit, or a bird or two now and then, off the moor well, I do! We all of us does that, as lives on the moor: some folks calls it poaching, but we call it taking our own.
ALANE, alone. AN, if. ANE, one. ARRAY, annoy, trouble. AULD, old. AWEEL, well. AYE, always. BAILIE, a city magistrate in Scotland. BAN, curse. BAWTY, sly, cunning. BAXTER, a baker. BEES, in the, stupefied, bewildered. BELIVE, belyve, by and by. BEN, in, inside. BENT, an open field. BHAIRD, a bard. BLACK-FISHING, fishing by torchlight poaching. BLINKED, glanced. BLUDE, braid, blood.
The Ghost, at the moment, was uptossed on a sea, and I caught a clear view of a small steamship two or three miles away, rolling and pitching, head on to the sea, as it steamed toward us. It was painted black, and from the talk of the hunters of their poaching exploits I recognized it as a United States revenue cutter. I pointed it out to Maud and hurriedly led her aft to the safety of the poop.
He, Guillaume, did a little in the poaching and smuggling lines, and only one of that litter of wolves' whelps had grown up to be an honest man, and that was Prosper, the hussar, who had gone to work on a farm before he was conscripted, because he hated the life of the forest. "I saw your brother at Vouziers," Maurice continued; "he is well." Sambuc made no reply.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking