"So," quoth he, in a great, loud, angry voice, "ye have been poaching upon the King's deer, have you?

[Law]; smuggling, poaching; simony.

"A ungry belly makes a man desprit," wrote one, but for poaching a pheasant the hungry man was imprisoned fourteen years.

The better sort of carrier, who calls daily at the great house with all kinds of goods and parcels from the big town seven miles off, is occasionally not averse to a little poaching in the roadside fields among the hares.

Although it savours somewhat of poaching, I confess to a weakness for evening and night fishing.

He may think, perhaps, that he has nothing to learn and cannot go wrong, but burglaries are practically unknown, and poaching is not commonly practised.

When the moon is up, the fish are not to be fascinated by artificial light; consequently the darkest nights are chosen for this kind of poaching.

He would long have given up digging, to live entirely on poaching, but for his hope to unearth some day treasure of gold and jewels.

"I wonder what's the punishment for poaching in France," he said gaily.

o' poaching.

"Ah says to myself, 'It's one of th' Chinks poaching, an' it's 'evin 'elp 'im if 'e 's after what Ratty nearly caught last night!'

Moussa Isa was again the slave of an ivory-poaching, hide-poaching, specimen-poaching, slave-dealing gang of Arabs, Negroes, and Portuguese half-castes, led by a white man of the Teutonic persuasion.

Moussa Isa was again the slave of an ivory-poaching, hide-poaching, specimen-poaching, slave-dealing gang of Arabs, Negroes, and Portuguese half-castes, led by a white man of the Teutonic persuasion.

Moussa Isa was again the slave of an ivory-poaching, hide-poaching, specimen-poaching, slave-dealing gang of Arabs, Negroes, and Portuguese half-castes, led by a white man of the Teutonic persuasion.

But he had shut his door to the unrepentant and unashamed General, had cut him in the Club, had returned a rudely curt answer to an invitation to dinner, and had generally shown the offender that he trod on dangerous ground when poaching on the preserves of Mr. Dearman.

My memories of this period are chiefly memories of the woodsshooting parties, now and then a wolf or boar hunt, often a poaching adventure with a friend.

I was doingor had been doinga bit of poaching.

Between you and me, Crone was a bit of a night-birdI've suspected him of poaching, time and again.

"You were saying this man was suspected of poaching?" he asked.

"Likely it'll have been some poaching affair he was after last nighthim and others.

And, once more, he said little on the journey, except that it would be well if it came out that this was but a poaching affair in which Crone had got across with some companion of his; and for the rest of the afternoon he made no further remark to me about the matter, nor about the discovery of the morning.

" "Aye, well," said he, "I don't know if the police are aware of it, but I'm very sure there's night-poaching of salmon going on hereabouts, Moneylaws.

"It's my opinion, Mr. Lindsey, that there's salmon-poaching going on hereabouts, and if my land adjoined either Tweed or Till I'd have spoken about it before.

" "Poaching, as a matter of fact," suggested Mr. Lindsey.

And most people, having heard Nance Maguire's admissions, would have said that he had gone poaching.