How To Use Tierce In A Sentence
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Back in 2002 I imprinted my tiercel gos on the 8th floor of the Wachovia bank building in the uptown area of Albuquerque.
Working Like a Dog
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He said a message took three pigeons because of the ubiquitous Peregrines there: "One for the falcon, one for the tiercel, and one for the film".
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I spend way too much time doing physical conditioning with my tiercel goshawk, but the result is a bird that knows it can smoke any quarry he's programmed to chase.
Working Like a Dog
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The Literary Interests of the First Carters." p. 51.) [14.1] A tierce is a measure of liquid "equal to a third of a pipe, or 42 gallons (159 liters).
Inventory of Robert Carter's Estate, November [1733]
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Cadfael took his problem with him into the church at the hour of tierce, and said the office privately in a quiet corner.
A River So Long
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Tour d'Azyr to be everywhere at once, and then from a low engagement in sixte, Andre-Louis stretched forward with swift and vigorous ease to lunge in tierce.
Scaramouche
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On the day when the deputies of the communes entered an assembly, and seated themselves beside the first two orders, the new comer, by virtue of the situation and rank occupied, took the name of third order; and as our fathers used to speak of the third denier (_tiers denier_), and the third day (_tierce journee_), so they must have spoken of the (_tiers-etat_) third estate.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 2
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French school, by which, at serious issues, the guarding of the line can be more quickly done: as, for instance, the 'parade de septime' supplanting the slower 'parade de prime;' the 'parade de quarte' having advantage over the 'parade de quince;' the 'parade de tierce' being readier and stronger than the 'parade de sixte;' the same said for the
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
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A few years back, a friend of mine's tiercel Peregrine died from a yellowjacket sting to the face.
Giant Yellowjacket Nests
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Once the Duke thrust in tierce and Jack's sword arm wavered an instant, and a splash of crimson appeared on his sleeve.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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Sequences of 3-8 cards are called tierce, quart, quint, sixième, septième and huitième respectively.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
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My lord parried gracefully in tierce, and chuckled softly to himself.
The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
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He could hear the sounding of matin invitatories; chimes telling a rosary of harmony over tortuous labyrinths of narrow streets, over cornet towers, over pepper-box pignons, over dentelated walls; the chimes chanting the canonical hours, prime and tierce, sexte and none, vespers and compline; celebrating the joy of a city with the tinkling laughter of the little bells, tolling its sorrow with the ponderous lamentation of the great ones.
Là-bas
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At prime, tierce, sext, none, vespers, complin, and the midnight office, they daily sung the whole psalter, which every sister was obliged to know by heart.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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He took no food, and said the office at tierce and sext in the saddle.
A River So Long
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'tierce' with the intervals of music which bears those names: when he made a feint he cried out, "take care of this 'diesis'," because anciently they called the 'diesis' a feint: and when he had made the foil fly from my hand, he would add, with a sneer, that this was a pause: in a word, I never in my life saw a more insupportable pedant.
The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau — Complete
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And, so saying, I merely went from carte to tierce, and as he recovered wildly and parried widely I returned to carte, took the opening, and drove home heart-high and through and through.
Chapter 11
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A sequence of three cards is called a "tierce"; of four, a "quart"; of five, a "quint"; of six, a "sixieme"; of seven, a "septieme"; of eight, a "huitieme."
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My Gyr- Prairie tiercel was stolen this spring and so far possible replacements have fallen through partially because breeders failed, partly because of penury.
Gyr
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To be and enrich youself , don't care about the attitude of the chook flock. As like the tiercel, prepare for the first fly and soar into the sky.
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And then, he thought, it would be simply delightful to sit in a room in a quiet farmhouse and hear the gentle moaning of calves and the cheerful cackle of exultant hens, as he wrote items in a book about eggs and things, and drink buttermilk, instead of toiling in the ill-smelling trade-room on board the _Palestine_, bottling off Queensland rum and opening tierces of negrohead tobacco, while the brig was either standing on her head or rolling her soul out, and Packenham the skipper was using shocking language to everyone on deck.
Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899
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Thp luter, ftierce of nations, to which this has giinted | tffll eager in the puTfuil uf tanei to the fame adventure.
The Edinburgh magazine, or Literary miscellany
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ah!" when the point was nicely avoided; there were lunges in quart, there were cuts over and under, thrusts in flanconade and tierce, feint and double-feint, and sudden disengagements.
The Grey Cloak
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“Báz” (here Richardson is wrong s.v.); a term to a certain extent generic, but specially used for the noble Peregrine (F. Peregrinator) whose tiercel is the
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Here is a merlin, and this tiercelet is a falcon-heroner.
The King in Yellow
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He was wrapped in a towel on my lap -- the towel slipped and his tiny tiercel foot was suddenly embedded in the meaty part of my thigh... can an eagle take down a wolf?
Colonel Cooper and Wolves
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Giganti had seven guards, but only really employed two, corresponding to the modern quarte and tierce.
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And the falcon or hawk or genette or tiercel having stooped, the Queen will call upon that eyass for the lure appropriated to each bird as it chances.
The Fifth Queen Crowned
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The child of a white man by a mulatto woman was called a quarteroon, -- the second degree; from a white father and a quarteroon mother was born the male tierceroon, -- the third degree; the union of a white man with a female tierceroon produced the metif, -- the fourth degree of color.
Toussaint L'Ouverture: A Biography and Autobiography
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In two minutes I had his whole budget of the art laid bare to me; he had but four parries -- quarte and tierce for the high lines, with septime and second for the low ones -- and had never seen a counter-parry or lunge in the whole course of his misspent life.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
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The Noghri was in turn killed by Major Tierce of the Imperial Royal Guard, though the Noghri's killing of a hated enemy made him a legend.
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Ince flies a mature tiercel male peregrine successfully at snipe, dove and quail, some of the toughest quarries any trained falcon catches.
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