Now this is exactly the case with the swifts; for they take their food in a more exalted region than the other species, and are very seldom seen hawking for flies near the ground, or over the surface of the water.
One of my neighbours last Saturday, November the 26th, saw a martin in a sheltered bottom: the sun shone warm, and the bird was hawking briskly after flies.
However, hawking with a shikra is, in my opinion, very poor sport, for the shikra makes but one dash at its quarry, and at once desists if it fails to secure it.
Like falcons, they are reclaimed for hawking purposes, but are regarded as mere toys by those who indulge in "the sport of kings.
The time of day best suited for hawking is very early in the morning, before the eagles and kites are soaring in the sky.
Hawking and hunting are his favorite amusements, and game abounds in the hills and plains.
Some streetsellers devote themselves to the hawking of dog collars, and some to the sale of rat poisons.
Illustration: "Where the dams are hawkingfor flies.
Harry smiled, and in ten minutes more would have taken horse for Esher, had not Madam Nan claimed his word to ride out hawking with her.
The King hallooed, and bade the boys do so, and in a few moments more they were surrounded by the rest of the hawking party, full of dismay at the king's condition, and deprecating his anger for having lost him.
He assigned to her little else in the Boke except part of the treatise on hawking and the section on hunting.
English writer onhawking and hunting, is said to have been prioress of Sopwell nunnery near St Albans, and daughter of Sir James Berners, who was beheaded in 1388.
Hawking and hunting are far less noble occupations than agriculture; descent from a long line of historic criminals is no honor.
His sons lived with him, and spent much of their spare time in hawking and the chase.
Weeks later I saw several of her brood along the meadow fence hawking for flies.
The remarkable way in which the art of hawking has disappeared from our civilization deserves more than a passing notice, though it appears to be inexplicable.
To discharge matter from the lungs or throat bu hawking and spitting; to spit.
Hawking with staniels, -- a base kind of falconry.
The poor scholars of Westminster also were employed in hawkingbooks between school-hours.
He told Mr. and Mrs. Lawn that he and his wife had been no further than Tadcaster, and that he was going to stop in that neighbourhood for the purpose of hawking books.
The next morning they were invited by Astarte to a hawking party, and, leaving the rugged ravines, they descended into a softer and more cultivated country, where they found good sport.
And first they came to the Hawking Sopers, who when they saw William approaching tumbled out of their dwelling with a great racket, crying to him to come and drink and play with them.
Now he urged Pepper to her full speed, and they went at a gallop past the Hawking Sopers, who, hearing the clatter, came running into the road.
When we sought diversion upon lower ground, hawkingor riding in the valley, Father Spaur himself would bear me company.
Probably John of Gaunt and his friends from Markeaton watched thehawking from the top of Lady Edge and the undulating land which lies between Lady Edge and Hawksyard, the quarry being taken within a distance of half a mile to the north-east.
Appendix containing an article on Hawksyard near Buxton; with its John of Gaunt hawking tradition and medieval history; reprinted from Transactions of The Hunter Archaeological Society of Sheffield.
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