He often stopped with them a month or two at a stretch, particularly in winter, as he was fond of shooting snipe, which are plentiful in the valley there.

The ideas of gentlemen and sportsmen as to what "is done" and "isn't done" haven't changed since Fabius Tullius caught snipe in the Pontine marshes.

We got the woodcocka somewhat rara avis in small, isolated coverts on the hills; in addition, the bag contained one snipe, one wild duck, two pheasants, six rabbits, a pigeon, a heron, and some moorhens.

And what she wanted us to understand clearly was that no designing little gutter-snipe was to be allowed to compromise David's future.

I will eat snipes with thee, Thomas Manning.

Later on in the autumn, when November frosts begin to attract snipes to the withybeds and water meadows by the Coln, the unambitious gunner may often enjoy the charm of a small and select mixed bag.

With you we hatch the pasty snipe, And all undaunted face Huge fish of unfamiliar type Bush-pike and bubble-dace; Or, fired by hopes of lyric fame, We deviate from prose, And make it our especial aim Bun-sonnets to compose.

But others, again, are not good until decomposition is about to set in; and here we may mention particularly the snipe and the pheasant.

Ducks and geese walked about and fed on the meadow; nearer the water, ran snipe, and other coast-birds.

Pat got a fine jack snipe, and I shot a Jheela, a very fine waterfowl with brown plumage, having a strong metallic, coppery lustre on the back, and a steely dark blue breast.