19 examples of battue in sentences

We followed one or two battues (pheasants), but it was really too cold, and we were glad to walk home to get warm.

If we care to put on our snow-shoes, this man will guide us to the clearing and take care of us till the battue is over.

Paris was like a forest in which Louis Bonaparte was making a battue of the Representatives; the wild beast was hunting down the sportsmen.

This was in both instances, as I understand, by the means of fair and square stalking, quite different from the methods of the more degenerate battue.

Of course," he added, "I eliminate the English, who deem the day misspent unless they have killed something, and who give infinite pains and tenderness to the raising of pheasants, that they may slaughter a record number of them at a battue.

On the other hand, when an author of the third or rare class writes, it is like a battue.

ojeada, f., glance, look. ojeo, m., battue, beating for game; que hacían señales de , which were blowing to start up the game.

They speak of the massacres at Kamakh, of the killing by the river, and of a battue through the cornfields, where the wheat was high, into which some Armenians had escaped.

Instead of birds and ground game being wounded time after time, at big battues they are killed stone dead by some well-known and acknowledged good shot.

Ours are always allowed a grand battue in the garden every year.

My old friend, the one-legged cock pheasant, who for the third year in succession has contrived to escape our annual battue, comes up to my feet to take the bread I offer.

"What is your average list of killed in a pheasant battue?" "Whatwhat kind of killed?"

This merry festival was over and gone, and the canal was all brimming with the lustral renewal of its waters, its depths flashing now and again with the passage of wary survivors of that spring battue.

A feeling of drowsiness steals over me; that succulent cold chikor, followed by a generous slice of cake upon which I so nobly lunched, clouds somewhat my active faculties, and the article"A Bear Battue in the Himalayas"which I am engaged in writing for the Fieldseems to flag a little.

The next day there was a regular battue, as the gendarmes beat up the fields and woods in search of the fugitives.

Captain Cuffe wished to say battue; but, despising foreign languages, he generally made sad work with them whenever he did condescend to resort to their terms, however familiar.

Est-ce qu'ils l'ont battue?

BATTUE, method of killing game after crowding them by cries and beating them towards the sportsmen.

A battue of the escaping animals had commenced!

19 examples of  battue  in sentences