219 examples of woodcocks in sentences

At the Top Woodcocks or wild Ducks.

A Hare or Woodcocks.

Woodcocks or Partridges.

Why, it takes a sharp-shooter to bring down even such trivial game as snipes and woodcocks; he must take very particular aim, and know what he is aiming at.

GAME.Blackcock, grouse, hares, partridges, pheasants, snipes, woodcocks, doe venison.

GAME.Hares, partridges, pheasants, snipes, woodcocks.

GAME.Hares, partridges, pheasants, snipes, woodcocks.

Truss them in the same manner as woodcocks, No. 1062; roast them before a clear fire, keep them well basted, and serve on toast.

These, like woodcocks, should be dressed without being drawn.

Woodcocks should not be drawn, as the trails are, by epicures, considered a great delicacy.

In the same manner as woodcocks take their leave of us, they quit France, Germany, and Italy, making the northern and colder climates their summer rendezvous.

Darke as it is, by the twilight of my Lanthorne methinks I see a company of Woodcocks.

Woodcocks come hither, though there is not a tree upon the island.

No lady, no widow, nor no waiting gentlewoman, for under protection Ladies may lard their husbands' heads, Widows will woodcocks make, And chambermaids of servingmen Learn that they'll never forsake.

You see this couple of abominable woodcocks here.

To set a gyn for Woodcocks & catch your selfe first.

A few woodcocks, snipe, and wildfowl also visit us.

One of them was of the class of people who grumble if they don't get canvasbacks and woodcocks every day, for three-fifty per week.

I have often bagged ten brace of woodcocks of a morning, in the shooting-grounds of Clawbonny, and as many quails in their season.

Woodcocks, Beating for, 448.

A celebrated literary character, in a northern metropolis, had a black servant, whom he occasionally employed in beating covers for woodcocks and other game.

On one occasion of intense frost, the native of Afric's sultry shores was nearly frozen to death by the cold and wet of the bushes, which sparkled, (but not with fire-flies,) and on which, pathetically blowing his fingers, he was heard to exclaim, in reply to an observation of his master, that "the woodcocks were very, scarce," "Ah, massa, me wish woodcock never been!"

Observing poets all their walks invade, As men watch woodcocks gliding through a glade: And when they have enough for comedy, They stow their several bodies in a pie: The poet's but the cook to fashion it, For, gallants, you yourselves have found the wit.

161, n. 1; styles Blackmore gentleman, ii. 126, n. 4. Woodcocks, ii. 55, 248.

Game, of course, could only be killed at particular seasons of the year; and wild-geese, wild-ducks, woodcocks, and snipes in the winter; but spring and summer pastime was afforded by the crane, the bustard, the heron, the rook, and the kite; while, at the same periods, some of the smaller description of water-fowl offered excellent sport on lake or river.

219 examples of  woodcocks  in sentences