The cavalcade came leisurely on, for the King proceeded no faster than would allow the falconers to keep easily up with those on horseback.
He has also fifty assistant falconers at two hundred livres each, all chosen by himself.
Many English falconers in modern times have had eyases which have killed grouse, ducks and other quarry in a style almost equalling that of passage hawks.
Hawks are divided by falconers all over the world into two great classes.
It is, however, well known to all practical falconers that the heron has no power or inclination to fight with a falcon in the air; so long as he is flying he seeks safety solely from his wings.
One of the finest examples, though of later date (1640), is the vault over the staircase of Christ Church, Oxford.
Augustus planted a colony there, and round it constructed a wall (of which some remains exist), as is recorded in the inscription on the triple arch erected in his honour at the entrance to the town (A.
These falconers were in front of seven horsemen, who had behind a kind of tamed tiger at times employed by His Highness for hare-hunting, notwithstanding what may be said to the contrary by those who are inclined not to believe the fact.
The hunting equipment of the Sultan consisted of about thirty falconers on horseback who carried each a bird on his fist.
At this season of the year, and in this country, falconers are obliged to be content with rook, pigeon, or magpie flying.
Our forefathers, excellent falconers as they were, chose to make a wonderful mystery of their craft; and when they did publish a book on the subject of their great sport, its directions could only avail the gentry of those exclusive times.
Goshawks, which may be occasionally procured from the Regent's Park Zoological Gardens, or directly from Sweden or Germany, are considered by some falconers to be difficult birds to manage.
At present, however, falconers find no difficulty in procuring these birds, if they are willing to pay for them.
But mostfalconers first unhood their hawks by candlelight.
The old falconers seem to have given it much more often than we do now.
One of the greatest falconers that modern times have produced, Mr. E.
Occasionally it happens that without any apparent reason an eyess drops out some of her nestling feathers almost as soon as they have come fully down, or, as the old falconerstermed it, as soon as she is "summed.
This "personation trick" is invariably used by Indian and Asiatic falconers in kite-flying with sakers.
The old falconers give elaborate directions for conditioning a hawk when "drawn" from the mews.
The failure of modern falconers to make any practical use of this elegant and prepossessing hawk, is noticed in detail in the same chapter.
It is strange enough that there should be found any falconers who have so little thought for the comfort of their charges that they will use such resting-places.
If a man has so many hawks and so few falconers that he cannot spare one of the latter to carry each of the hawks for some hours every day, he is going about his business in an unbusiness-like way.
Falconers must be a long way behind the professors of other arts and crafts if they cannot make their trained pets at least nearly as good as the wild and untrained.
We modern trainers do not use the voice much, as the old falconers did, in educating and directing our pupils.
Then I have since written a story called King Matthias's Hunting Horn, and I am engaged in finishing another called The Two Falconers of Cairnstane.
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Then the falconers go up and show the birds pieces of meat, in order to entice them back to the fist.
They are known to falconers as the short-winged or yellow-eyed hawks and the long-winged or dark-eyed hawks.
Then there are two other falconerson foot, one carrying a goshawk and the other a sparrow-hawk (Accipiter nisus).
The falconers liberate the goshawks, and away they go in pursuit.
The best falconers were Flemings, and even those who have attended hawks in England, until a late period, were procured from a particular district of Flanders.
Upon that occasion falconers seem also to have been transferred to Henry's service; for we find a payment of 2l.
The Falconers arrived with the usual lot of servants and motors and, moreover, with a racing outfit, for Falconer had decided to enter his English filly, Bonjour, for the events of August.
Many of the great lords also had their hounds and their falconers with them.
He brought with him thirty falconers on horseback, so that in the intervals of war he might indulge in his favourite pursuit of hawking for water-fowls along the courses of the streams.
The King had with him thirty falconers on horseback, with their hawks, sixty couple of strong hounds and as many greyhounds, and amused himself every day with hunting and hawking.
Very possibly the good folk in St. Aliquis will have their bodies physicked or bled by physicians much less skillful in treating human ills than Conon's falconers are in treating birds.
The doctors of the Church know all about religion, just as the king's falconers know all about hawking.
Master huntsmen and falconers are always at swords' points.
Instantly out flutter a score of little birds which begin to dash about the tent; but immediately the baron's falconers stand grinning at the entrance.
In the days of falconry[53] a peculiar method of repairing a broken wing-feather was known to falconers by the term "imping.
The ancient falconers of the East were not in the habit of making use of the Eagle; its want of docility and its great weight rendered it but little adapted for this exercise.
Our falconers use the left hand for carrying their hawks.
Another horse they brought him, for lost was his own for aye, And fresh garments they put upon him, since such was the chance of fate 55 That his falconers won the vesture that had decked their king of late.
On the side next to our falconers arose a ridge of rock, of a dark red hue, giving name to the pool, which, reflecting this massive and dusky barrier, appeared to partake of its colour.
Huntsmen andfalconers too, bedight with the royal arms, their greyhounds in couples, and other dogs of the chase, are seen amidst the clank of arms, as the sentinels are relieved.
Sir Thomas rode, as was customary at the period, with his falcon on his glove, his falconers being in attendance.
Twenty of his fellows in coat and badge, with green and yellow feathers in their hats,[14] and as many falconers to make up the train.
Thus saying, he advanced with Arabella to a little knoll, on which the group offalconers had re-assembled.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "falconers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
