falconer

How To Use falconer In A Sentence

• It has leather jesses on its legs, which are used by falconers and people who take the birds out to hunt.
• Scarcely had the feodary read, re-read, and then destroyed this secret and singular missive, when the ` ` Ho! hollo! '' of Her Grace the Princess 'outriders rang on the crisp December air, and there galloped up to the broad doorway of the manor-house, a gayly costumed train of lords and ladies, with huntsmen and falconers and yeomen following on behind. Historic girls; stories of girls who have influenced the history of their times,
• We usually call a falconer who keeps that kind of hawk [the goshawk] an austringer. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
• Two golden eagles, perched on the leathered forearms of two falconers, took part in one of the most important events at the 18th annual Native American Celebration in the Park.
• France, to many of the chief officers of the crown — as great seneschal, great master, great chamberlain, great equerry, great pantler, great huntsman, great falconer. A Philosophical Dictionary
• An Ayrshire school was forced to hire falconers armed with hawks to safeguard its pupils.
• Adam and his team of falconers use predatory birds like gyrfalcons, eagles, and peregrine falcons to clear the air.
• In Pakistan's northern uplands, it is not uncommon to find hybrids between domestic goats and the mountain goat known as "markhor" (Capra falconeri). 1 Microcattle
• Waverley, -- my young and esteemed friend, Mr. Falconer of Balmawhapple, has craved of my age and experience, as of one not wholly unskilled in the dependencies and punctilios of the duello or monomachia, to be his interlocutor in expressing to you the regret with which he calls to remembrance certain passages of our symposion last night, which could not but be highly displeasing to you, as serving for the time under this present existing government. Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
• John Falconer, the head chef, and his Brazilian wife, Lucia, specialise in lung-expanding Brazilian home cooking such as feijoada, a creamy, smoky black bean stew, as well as a range of delicious vegetarian pies and curries.