Do you not think that when hood and jesses are fairly doffed once for all, she will fly her pitch toward the border, aye, and strike her quarry far on the southern side?
When the wild bird has ruffled her plumes in anger, and broken her jesses in pique, the observant fowler, who watches his opportunity, finds every facility afforded for his lure.
Are you, too, bound to some slender wrist by the jesses you dare not break, and a prisoner here at Holyrood because the rosy-lipped jailer will not let you go?
I have lost both hood and jesses in that foul creek.
When the hawk was flown, the swivel and leash were taken off, the jesses and bells remaining on the bird.
With lattice opened wide I stand To watch their eager flight; With broken jesses in my hand I muse on their delight.
Sparrow-hawks and peregrines are made to wear these hoods when taken out, until the falconer espies quarry, when he unhoods his hawk and lets the ends of the jesses go.
The jesses are short straps made of soft leather, which all trained hawks and falcons always wear.
Indeed, a cavalier was seldom seen abroad without his hawk on his fist; and even a lady of rank did not think herself completely equipped, in riding forth, unless she had her tassel-gentel held by jesses on her delicate hand.
In it the shield is supported partly by a falcon, and partly by a human arm issuing from the sinister side of the vesica, and holding the falcon by the jesses (LAING, i.
When the term "vervelled" is also employed it signifies that the jesses have small rings attached to the floating ends.
I read the necessary part of your letter to Sir George Lyttelton, who thinks himself much obliged, and leaves the vases entirely to your taste, and will be fully content with the five jesses you name.
Like a hawk, which feeling freed From bells and jesses which did let her flight.
Hubert's room now, with his cap and whip lying across the papers and the estate-book, and his knife and the broken jesses on the seat of the chair beside her.
Indeed, a cavalier was seldom seen abroad without his hawk on his fist; and even a lady of rank did not think herself completely equipped, in riding forth, unless she had a tassel-gentel held by jesses on her delicate hand.
The glass will tell you quickly if the colour of the jesses worn corresponds to the one name or the other.
A much greater number of hawks annually get loose with the leash still attached to their jesses than anyone would be likely to suppose.
Possibly the jesses so used were very short, so that the risk of "hooking up" did not arise.
The jesses are made fast to the swivel when the hawk is not intended to fly; and swivels are of two kinds.
Of course when it is intended to put on new jessesor bewits, the hawk must be "cast," or held.
It is now that the advantage will be seen of putting distinctive jesses on the hawks.
But when any hawk is being carried with a view to a flight the swivel will be detached from the jesses and the latter held tightly in the fingers of the left hand.
Yet the prisoner must be got out somehow, and moreover must be held quiet while a pair of jesses and a hood or sock are put on.
If for any reason you wish your hawk to eat her quarry where she has killed, attach the leash to her jesses and to a peg in the ground, or to a field-block, leaving a man to watch her and keep a sharp look-out against intruders.
As she stands complacently breakfasting on the fist, the jesses are grasped in the fingers of the left hand.
Then Jeanne d'Ys took my hand in both of hers and told me how with infinite patience the young falcon was taught to perch upon the wrist, how little by little it became used to the belled jesses and the chaperon à cornette.
It was a beautiful wide-winged falcon from the cliffs of Tintagel in the far west, hooded and with the goldenjesses that a king's bird may wear on her talons.
And she still had her jesses on, so that my men would know her if they caught sight of her by any chance.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "jesses" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
