Any injury done by cattle, the decoying of bees, the careless firing of woods, the planting unduly near a neighbour's ground, shall all be visited with proper damages.
Both at Athens and in Plato there is a law about bees, the former providing that a beehive must be set up at not less a distance than 300 feet from a neighbour's (Telfy), and the latter forbidding the decoying of bees.
Some of them were also provided with deers heads Cased for the purpose of decoying the deer.
The Wolves distroy great numbers of the antilopes by decoying those animals Singularly out in the plains and prosueing them alternetly, those antelopes are Curious and will approach any thing which appears in motion near them &c.
You have played false to both husband and lover--to Aubert in decoying him to his death, to your husband by denouncing him directly you were arrested.
Evidently they considered them to be an advance party of some strong force, acting with a view of decoying them into a close fight.
Decoying birds by imitating their notes or cries is an art which the collector must acquire.
One call, which I do not think is made or used in England, is a Greek idea for decoying thrashes.
For two centuries previous to the thorough drainage of the Fens, decoying was a means of capturing many thousands of birds annually, and in the "Washes" netting was practised.
That was reward enough surely for a few weeks of angling and decoying and luring and lying.
Duck decoying is one of the oldest methods of taking winter wild-fowl.
Nothing requires more care and judgment than the successful decoying of ducks.
Duck decoying is one of the most interesting phases of woodcraft, and really skilled modern fowlers are as rare as trained falconers.
As all the pipes curve to the right the decoying is unseen from the pool, and one set of fowl can be "worked" whilst others are sleeping or preening themselves on the lake.
They are excellent hands at decoying pigeons, for all the "strays" that alight in the neighbourhood are pretty sure to become "Whitechapel birds.
Desirous of seeing a lady who had so proper an idea of her duties to servants, he peeps through and sees the face of a well-known bawd, thus decoying a young girl just arrived in London.
Much has been said as to the means used for decoying young children for purposes of prostitution.
It is said that women even attend regularly at churches and Sunday-schools for the purpose of decoying female children.
Farther illustrations of the cunning of the prairie-wolf might be found in its mode of decoying within reach the antelopes and other creatures on which it preys.
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