The principal huntsman and all the other officers ran after him with as much eagerness and anxiety as the first eunuch had done after the spaniel.

O honest, honest huntsman! Hub.

Some years later the young prince, who had become an ardent huntsman, took the fancy into his head one day to let loose in the courtyard of the castle of Amboise a wild boar which he had just caught in the forest.

Their controversy is at length terminated by a celebrated huntsman and falconer, who decides in favour of venery, for the somewhat remarkable reason that those who pursue it enjoy oral and ocular pleasure at the same time.

But they would not leave me so easily, these gallant huntsmen.

Like the clever huntsman, a good falconer (Fig. 156) was bound to be a man of varied information on natural history, the veterinary art, and the chase; but the profession generally ran in families, and the son added his own experience to the lessons of his father.

When he was shown where a cruel huntsman and his dogs had chased a poor hart to its death, Wordsworth wrote: "This beast not unobserved by nature fell; His death was mourned by sympathy divine.

The keen-eyed huntsman saw that lifted head And open wings meant flight and sure escape.

His father was spending the night with his boon fellows, and a favourite old huntsman lay dying in a room near by.

Below these were the cup-bearer and grand huntsman.

The British people during the past twenty months have seemed more than once to resemble that historic huntsman.

The truth of the matter was as follows: I was walking toward the little wood, where I afterwards met the venerable eunuch, and the most illustrious chief huntsman.

They, however, remained insensible to all the attractions of female society; they joined not in the dance, nor told nor listened to the tale of love or war by the evening fire; but rode together, hunted together, trapped together, and earned the highest renown as indefatigable and bold huntsmen.

I passed them both, and when I reached the crown I was riding level with the little, hard-faced English huntsman.

I was a mighty huntsman.

from the numerous huntsmen and others who had assembled; and it is said that this was the first occasion on which the companions of the intrepid monarch gave him the title of Grand (Magnus), so from that time King Charles became King Charlemagne.

Certain incongruities must then be admitted, but they lie rather in casual passages than in any necessary portion of the play; while in so far as they appear in the presentation of any character, the contrast seems to lie rather between Aeglamour and the rest of the shepherds than between these and the less polished huntsmen.

The prudent huntsman, therefore, will supply, With annual large recruits, his broken pack, And propagate their kind.

When now the fleetest of the pack, that pressed Close at his heels, and sprung before the rest, Had fastened on him, straight another pair 90 Hung on his wounded haunch, and held him there, Till all the pack came up, and every hound Tore the sad huntsman, grovelling on the ground, Who now appeared but one continued wound.

Nor will sagacious huntsmen less regard His inward habits: the vain babbler shun, Ever loquacious, ever in the wrong.

" Louder, louder, chant the lay, Waken, lords and ladies say, Tell them youth, and mirth and glee, Run a course as well as we, Time, stern huntsman!

But where, meanwhile, are the counterparts of thesethe wives, sisters, and daughters of these grim warriors and sturdy huntsmen, or of these dreaming idlers?

From him successive huntsmen learned to join 80 In bloody social leagues, the multitude Dispersed, to size, to sort their various tribes, To rear, feed, hunt, and discipline the pack.

and Hoarse! crying for its bone with such persistence that the superstitious huntsmen swore it was none other than the witch, an opinion confirmed by Scathlock's having since beheld old Maudlin in the chimney corner, broiling the very piece that had been thrown to the raven.

Here is a Decorated church with good details and a remarkable tomb-slab bearing an incised figure of an unknown huntsman, also a fine altar tomb of the Mompessons.