Perhaps the best method of conveying an idea of falconry to one who has not witnessed the sport is to describe a day's actual experience.
After this the conversation changed, and I shortly retired to my apartments, and dismissing my lackey, sat down to read a book on falconry that the cardinal had lent me.
Falconry which, like all arts, began in Egypt, is an extensive subject throughout Moslem lands.
I must refer my readers to "Falconry in the Valley of the Indus" (Van Voorst, 1852) and a long note in Pilgrimage iii.
Another article which may in a sense be included in the category of diet, is one which will somewhat surprise the reader who has heard nothing about falconry before.
On the Continent these various causes operated surely but slowly to displace falconry in the public estimation.
From the blow then struck English falconry never rallied in any general sense.
If you cannot reclaim your hawk without submitting her to such hunger as will make her weak and poor, you had better abandon falconry and try some less difficult form of sport.
Mr. Brodrick illustrated with his own admirable coloured figures the handsome and useful book on falconry which he published jointly with Captain Salvin.
Falconry is extinct in Japan, and nearly so in China.
Asiatic hawks and their trainers, and who not only was himself an enthusiastic and accomplished falconer, but even declared that falconry was the noblest of all arts.
Russia was as great at falconry as at most other things, and specially delighted in the flight with merlins.
To look for any real revival of falconry in Europe would be altogether quixotic.
In the golden age offalconry great weight was attached to the possession of good lungs.
Writers on falconry sometimes inadvertently lead their readers astray by declaring that the merlin is easily trained.
Falconry in India has been extensively practised by many English officers quartered in that part of the world, and notably by General Griffiths, and more lately by Captain S.
Equestrian exercises and falconryare their favourite amusements.
It is little larger than a thrush, and in the days of falconry was flown by ladies, its game being larks, pipits, pigeons, and occasionally partridges.
The miniature falconry in which the merlin indulges on the open moorlands, where nothing obstructs the view, is one of the most fascinating sights in nature.
About the middle of the 17th century falconry began to decline in England, to revive somewhat at the Restoration.
Schlegel's Traite de fauconnerie contains a very large list of works on falconry in the languages of all the principal countries of the Old World.
The following glossary of the principal terms used infalconry may assist the reader in perusing this notice of the practice of the art.
Little is known of the early history of falconry in Africa, but from very ancient Egyptian carvings and drawings it seems to have been known there many ages ago.
Perhaps the oldest records of falconry in Europe are supplied by the writings of Pliny, Aristotle and Martial.
But he did not try to draw Owen into confidence, speaking instead of falconry and Tahar's arrival, which could not be much longer delayed.
And here it is necessary to say something about the methods and language of falconry as practised by our forefathers.
The ancient art of falconryis still practised in these parts.
Elzéar Blaze expressed his astonishment that the ladies should not have used their influence to prevent falconry from falling into disuse.
It may fairly be asserted that venery and falconry have taken a position of some importance in history; and in support of this theory it will suffice to mention a few facts borrowed from the annals of the chase.
Another common expression used in falconry is "tower," applied to certain hawks, etc.
It will thus be seen that many technical expressions once employed in Falconry are still in common use.
The noble art and sport of Falconry were long the recreation, and, at times, the eager pursuit of men of high birth or position.
Falconry was— “During the reigns of Elizabeth and James, the most prevalent and fashionable of all amusements;.
We do not even suppose that our pictorial illustration supplied him with suggestions, and we offer it merely to show that Emblem writers, as well as others, found in falconry the source of many a poetical expression.
Falconry is still practiced to some extent in Africa.
That falconry was known to the ancient races of Africa is highly probable, though there is but little in the earlier written history of that continent regarding it.
In Japan the art of falconry was practiced about six or seven hundred years before Christ.
Of course, at some excesses in falconry Conon draws the line.
The old treatises on falconry contain numerous quaint recipes for the various ailments to which hawks are subject.
Salvin and Brodrick, "Falconry in the British Islands.
This, combined with the increased enclosure and cultivation of waste lands, has probably contributed as much as anything to the decline of falconry in England.
We shall have occasion later to discuss his knowledge of falconryat greater length.
It will be observed that, in these pages, falconry is treated as a thing of the past, as indeed it is a sport now almost obsolete, and but few comparatively are acquainted with its technicalities.
Salvin and Brodrick, "Falconry in the British Islands," pp.
There are, as before, when this bird was used in the old Falconry days, very many colonies, although these are not so crowded with nests as they used to be.
In some old Scottish works on Falconry it is stated that the best Goshawks came from Ireland.
In falconry we call it 'noble' because it rises over the quarry, and wheeling, drops upon it from above.
The old language of falconry which I had read in yellow manuscripts--the old forgotten French of the middle ages was sounding in my ears while the hounds bayed and the hawks' bells tinkled accompaniment to the stamping horses.
Falconry I know, but you have yet to give me many a lesson in Autourserie, my poor Raoul.
The art of falconry seems to have been carried to the greatest perfection, and to have been much in vogue at the principal courts of Europe in the twelfth century.
One precept in Demetrius respecting the art of falconryseems very ill-suited to the practice of modern times.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "falconry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chase; hawking; hunt; hunting; shooting; sport; sporting; stalking; venery
