Do we say hawk or hock

hawk 1127 occurrences

THE HERON WAS HUNTED BY THE HAWK, and the sport of hawking is usually placed at the head of those amusements that can only be practised in the country.

Such birds were esteemed as the ensigns of nobility, and no action was reckoned more dishonourable in a man of rank than that of giving up his hawk.

One of them by chance, that was well recovered, stood in the door, and seeing a gallant pass by with a hawk on his fist, well mounted, with his spaniels after him, would needs know to what use all this preparation served.

A hawk or an eagle is never tamed, but a crow is more easily and completely tamable than the gentlest singing-bird.

The presence of a hawk, or more particularly an owl in the woods, is often made known by the screaming of the jays, who flock together about him with ever-increasing noise, like a troop of jackals about a lion, pressing in upon him closer and closer in a paroxysm of excitement, while the owl, thus taken at disadvantage, sidles along his bough seeking concealment, and at length softly flaps off to some more undisturbed retreat.

It is not that, yet the fellow watches me like a hawk.

It was pitying a hawk in the sky.

Nothing can be more entertaining than to see this bird pursued by the hawk, and what a variety of flights and stratagems it makes use of to escape."

Knowing the captain's foibles, he pointed, therefore, with his finger, as he said "There is one of your old enemies, a hawk.

In his haste, he caught up the gun of John Moseley, and loading it rapidly/threw in a ball from his usual stock; but whether the hawk saw and knew him, or whether it saw something else it liked better, it made a dart for the baronet's poultry-yard at no great distance, and was out of sight in a minute.

During the autumn, when the pigeons are migrating, huge nets are spread between the trees, and on the approach of a flock, men, perched in a lofty "crow's nest," throw out a large wooden imitation of a hawk, at the sight of which the pigeons dip in their flight and rush into the nets, whichworked on the pulley systemimmediately secure them.

As the robber eagle sits on his cliff, waiting till the hawk has seized the ring-dove, then darts down and beats off the captor, that he may secure for himself the prize,so Schönfeld, not uninformed of what was going on, stood ready to pounce upon the suitor who should gain Katrine's favor, and sweep the last rival out of the way.

He’d never make one of them angels, With faces as white as chalk, All wool to the toes like hoggets, And wings like an eagle-hawk.

Chorus Hawk, hawk, hawk.

Our bread to win, we’ll all begin To hawk, hawk, hawk.

Chorus: Hawk, hawk, hawk, &c. The hawker’s gay for half the day, While others work he’s spelling, Though he may stay upon the way, His purse is always swelling; With work his back is never bent His hardest toil is talking; Three hundred is the rate per cent.

Chorus: Hawk, hawk, hawk, &c. The hawker’s gay for half the day, While others work he’s spelling, Though he may stay upon the way, His purse is always swelling; With work his back is never bent His hardest toil is talking; Three hundred is the rate per cent.

Chorus: Hawk, hawk, hawk, &c. COLONIAL EXPERIENCE

Chorus: Hawk, hawk, hawk, &c. COLONIAL EXPERIENCE

Like a hawk plunging after its prey it sped through space, the two occupants held in their places by safety belts.

One of the Huns followed them down, just as a hawk-might pursue its prey.

O impudence of power and might, Thus to condemn a hawk or kite, When thou, perhaps, carniv'rous sinner, Hadst pullets yesterday for dinner!' 30 'Hold,' cried the clown, with passion heated, 'Shall kites and men alike be treated? When Heaven the world with creatures stored, Man was ordained their sovereign lord.

It appears by his poem entitled, The Crown of Laurel, that his performances were numerous, and such as remain are chiefly these, Philip Sparrow, Speak Parrot, the Death of King Edward IV, a Treatise of the Scots, Ware the Hawk, the Tunning of Elianer Rumpkin.

He rode with a hawk on his fist, and dogs by his side; and the boldness of his manner as effectually screened him from discovery as the most skilful disguise.

Here the deadness of the region seemed further enlivened by several small birds, speckled and gray, two ravens, and a hawk.

hock 95 occurrences

The boar, when selected as the parent of a stock, should have a small head, be deep and broad in the chest; the chine should be arched, the ribs and barrel well rounded, with the haunches falling full down nearly to the hock; and he should always be more compact and smaller than the female.

The hock, or hind knuckle.

"A long glass of hock and seltzer would be exceedingly acceptable.

The only thing I can think of for me to do is to get engaged and hock the betrothal ring for a meal ticket.

I had everything in hock but my self-respect, and I had that ready to tuck under my shawl at a moment's notice and rush off to Uncle Sim's.

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But now-a-days, the knights sit drinking hock and champagne, or drive sulky-wagons, and never fancy that there is a Quest at all.

By the time he returned with my hock the tale was finished, and I tried to buy his toleration with an enormous pourboire.

The New Ironsides lies at one of the wharves, elephantine in bulk and color, her sides narrowing as they rise, like the walls of a hock-glass.

CHAPTER II REGIONAL ANATOMY Considered from a zoological standpoint, the foot of the horse will include all those parts from the knee and hock downwards.

When that position is reached, the operator grasps the hock firmly with one hand, and, directing the side-line to be slackened, gently slides downward the coils of rope round the arm and thigh until they encircle the cannons of both limbs.

and then the thigh, or the thigh and the arm, as the case may be; (3) in every case, whether rounding the thigh and the arm from above or below, the piece of rope completing the round should always finish below that portion preceding it, so that traction upon it from behind the animal's back should tend to keep all portions of it from slipping below the knee and the hock.

The rich, who sigh for theethe great, Who court thy smiles with gilded plate, But clasp thy cloudy follies: I've known thee turn, in Portman-square, From Burgundy and Hock, to share A pint of Port at Dolly's.

By his side is placed a table, with the relics of a luxurious enjoyment, while a washing tub as a wine cooler, contains, under the table, Hock, Champagne, Burgundy, and a Pine.

The ponies occasionally sink halfway to the hock, little Michael once or twice almost to the hock itself.

The ponies occasionally sink halfway to the hock, little Michael once or twice almost to the hock itself.

In hough, lough, shough, it sounds like k, or ck; thus, hock, lock, shock.

Read, read; and Yansen, order some eatables, and a bottle or two of my old Heidelberg hock, trouble always makes me thirstythree glasses, my good Yansen.

We had no overseer but Marse Hock was the only boy and the oldest child.

Give me a salad, a pint av hock, an' fill me pipe wid the Only Mixture, an' I'll repay ye across the board wid a narrativethe sort av God-forsaken, ord'nary thrifle that you youngsters turn into copymay ye find forgiveness!

Bedad, it was Jemmy!" O'Driscoll paused, and poured himself another glass of hock.

There a youth threw his hat in the air and cried: "Hock der Krieg, Hock der Krieg!"

There a youth threw his hat in the air and cried: "Hock der Krieg, Hock der Krieg!"

Certain wines are taken with certain dishes, by old-established customas sherry, or sauterne, with soup and fish; hock and claret with roast meat; punch with turtle; champagne with whitebait; port with venison; port, or burgundy, with game; sparkling wines between the roast and the confectionery; madeira with sweets; port with cheese; and for dessert, port, tokay, madeira, sherry, and claret.

High and narrow, and very broad and shallow glasses, are used for champagne; large, goblet-shaped glasses for burgundy and claret; ordinary wine-glasses for sherry and madeira; green glasses for hock; and somewhat large, bell-shaped glasses, for port.

Do we say   hawk   or  hock