Stevenson Nyum-Nyum, The Ocean Wanderer, The Odd to a Krokis Ode to the Human Heart Laman Blanchard Of Baiting the Lion Owen Seaman Oh, my Geraldine F.
We are probably more indebted to the old custom of bear-baiting for this sign than to Heraldry.
Its intimate connection with Christmas beef, heraldry, and bull-baiting is sufficient to account for the frequent appearance of this animal on the sign-board.
A stake was fixed in the centre of the baiting ground, to which the bull was tethered by a rope, when its canine tormentors were let loose upon it amidst the yelling of a brutalised mob.
Bull baitingwas formerly a common sport in Rossendale as in other parts of the country.
The girl settles down quickly; and in a week she is baiting lines in the stone-floored kitchen, or tramping inland with her great fish basket slung round her forehead.
If the men happened to be sitting in the sun, on the benches, he would stop and speak to them, in sharp, ringing accents, and he always had a word for the women as they sat baiting their lines in the open air.
The work done by the fisher-women needs long and special training: the baiting of lines is a delicate and subtle operation, while the business of seeking bait is one which no country-woman ever learns properly.
Marrying a woman for her munny is vera mutch like setting a rat-trap, and baiting it with yure own finger.
It iz hard work when we see a man ketching fish out ov a hole, tew keep from baiting our hook, and throwing in thare too.
There was comparatively little witch baiting and witch hunting and very few witches put to death during the earlier centuries.
During Queen Elizabeth's visit to Kenilworth, in 1575, there was a great bear-baiting in her honor, of which a curious and most sickening account still exists.
But in Shakspere's day bear-baiting was a popular and refined amusement.
Dan's line was out long before Harvey had mastered the mystery of baiting and heaving out the leads.
The tubs were full of neatly coiled line carrying a big hook each few feet; and the testing and baiting of every single hook, with the stowage of the baited line so that it should run clear when shot from the dory, was a scientific business.
That afternoon he watched Percy skilfully handle the splitting-knife and later do his part in baiting the trawl.
By the dim light of two lanterns, Jim, Throppy, Budge, and Filippo were busy baiting the trawls with herring and coiling them into the tubs in the standing-room.
She ran up alongside the Barracouta, where the boys were baiting their trawl.
He turned his back on the stranger and resumed baiting his trawl.
In the middle of the afternoon, while the boys were baiting trawls on the Barracouta, another boat chugged into the cove.
Percy stepped to the helm, and Jim began baiting again.
While baiting traps is not necessary when trapping at dens, yet the trapper who baits his traps will catch more game than if the traps were not baited.
The trapper who has only a few traps will do best by scattering them and baiting each trap.
With the first frosts and cool days many trappers begin setting and baiting their traps.
They can be trapped by baiting with insects, frogs or mice.
Rats will not eat the meat, but it is sure to draw them into the trap; and then by baitingwith rat flesh you will often get a mink.
First put out offal of butchering such as beef head; pick out a good place where foxes travel; at the same time, singe the fur on a rabbit or two and put near where you want to set trap; commence baitingearly and go there often.
Your baiting hole is away from the shore thirty or forty feet and you measure the depth and find six or seven feet of water.
After baiting your hook with a cockchafer, move it two or three times near the surface, as in the act of flying; then drop it in the water, tapping the rod gently, which will cause the appearance of its struggling to escape.
In baiting with the cheese, put a round lump the size of a cherry on a large hook, so as to cover the bend, and some way up the shank; fish six inches from the bottom, or in cold weather the bait may lie on the ground.
In baiting your hook with the minnow, fix your hook through his upper lip, and use a small reel with your rod.
There was a bull-baiting in the market at which my maid of honour cried fie!
He was aroused by the landlord, who came up the stream, pole in hand, baitinghis hook as he walked along.
Handle moss with sharpened stick and knife, never with bare hands unless set is made one week before baiting and scenting.
We trapped foxes by baiting in beds mostly, says a Michigan trapper, though we caught five in the following manner: A wounded deer had fallen near two down trees which lap with tops crossed.
Prior to my baiting the trail foxes were crossing it and following it without hesitation, but after I had put out the bait not a fox had ventured to cross that trail again.
On some of the larger farms, the box trap method of catching the foxes has been given up, as being too slow, for baiting the animals near a small corral.
After a week ofbaiting in this way, the trapper carefully conceals his trap in the bed, first smoking it thoroughly with hemlock boughs so as to kill all smell of iron.
For baiting this trap, use some food of which the animal is particularly fond.
Rafe was a little sly, and he was continually making fun of his slow brother, and baiting him.
We haven't much; but if he is baiting for hundreds of Blakes in America he may secure, in the aggregate, a very tidy sum indeed.
Dost not remember how this day, Thou to my beard wast bold to say, That thou coud'st prove bear-baiting equal 1085 With synods orthodox and legal?
For as we make war for the King Against himself the self-same thing, 515 Some will not stick to swear we do For God and for Religion too: For if bear-baiting we allow, What good can Reformation do?
The largest catches are made by baiting where the birds frequent for some days or even weeks before trying to make a catch.
Most trappers use a rabbit in baiting ten traps or less; the head makes bait for one trap, each foreleg another, the back about three and each hind leg one, altho each hind leg can be cut to make bait for two traps.
In baiting it is important to see that the bait is on secure.
The bull- and bear-baiting pits on the Surrey side are quite conspicuous, and so is the royal barge, in very much the same position in the river as it is in Agas's map.
Crossing over now to the Surrey side, we see conspicuously the two round pens for bull- and bear-baiting respectively.
Bull-baiting and badger-baiting were probably never more popular than at the time when they were prohibited by law in 1835.
At Kirkoswald and several other market-places in the two counties the rings are still firmly fixed to which the bulls were tethered during the baiting process.
I now erected my pole on the sands, after once more baiting my hook, this time with a piece of my last kernel, having taken the precaution of cutting it into six pieces.
These men were not baiting Death for spectacular effect.
Baiting the Bear," a popular and still played game, has continued since the days of bear-baiting.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baiting" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
