The leaves were not off the trees, and how the poacher contrived to see his victims I know not; but five shots did he fire, and not in vain, without allowing me to catch a glimpse of him.
The poacher gave a quick glance up the lane in the direction from which we had come, caught sight of the keeper's velveteen coat, and shot into the copse and was gone.
The next minute the poacher had leaped into the wood and passed among the trees.
They've both got poacher written in their face, and I can see what the end will be--transportation, or hung for killing a keeper.
Even Gillespie, the most dreaded poacher and wildest man in the clachan, was softened in tone and like a child when talking to the "good Miss Grants," as they were always called.
I've tied the hands and feet of a poacher before," he said, "a bigger man than you.
But the old poacher remained sullen and silent, and now the keepers were hailed by the policeman across the river.
That small, sly old poacher was not there to work; his task was to keep guard.
Feeling the blow, and hearing the voices at his back, the poacher thought that a crowd of foes was upon him, and took to his heels and fled through a coppice, crashing through bushes and saplings with furious lumbering speed.
The poacher leapt up, and aimed a terrific kick at his fallen opponent.
The truth was that an inkling of the raid had been gained from words let fall by a drunken poacher in the village inn, and the pool had been prepared.
Smiley remained too close to the gagged and pinioned captive for Dick to chance a rush, and the poacher was armed with a heavy stick.
In the old days," he said at last, "when a man caught a poacher on his grounds, do you know what he did?
He has done more than that--far more, this poacher out of the West!
That is what really takes place as seen by us as lookers-on; to the poacher himself, in nine out of ten cases, it is merely an acquired knack learned from watching others, and improved by practice.
What the poacher or wild hunter has to do is to conceal these attributes.
Moving his arms as gently as possible, with the elbows close to his sides, the poacher proceeds to slowly push his rod and wire loop towards the basking jack.
In poaching, the intelligence of the man is backed against the intelligence of the fish or animal, and the poacher tries to get himself into the ways of the creature he means to snare.
The object consequently of the tricks of the poacher is to obliterate himself.
The poacheror wild hunter has to conceal his arms by reducing their movements to a minimum, and by conducting those movements as slowly as possible.
Her idealpoacher was a young, stalwart, eagle-eyed giant, with a tangle of hair and a disposition toward assassination.
There was an ancient Breton squatting on the bank; from his sulky attitude I took him to be a poacher visiting his infernal set lines and snares; but I hailed him pleasantly with a bonjour, which he returned civilly enough.
Nic is wounded and is mistaken for a poacher by the naval party, who press-gang the poachers.
The pain of the blows thrilled him, and, darting forward with clenched fists, he struck the poacher full in the mouth before the pole could swing round.
He did not know that a keeper is only a poacher turned outside in, and a poacher a keeper turned inside out.
They talked for ten minutes, but the poacher couldn't move the policeman, though he appealed to his friendship and so on.
Joseph had a theory, sure founded on Scripture, and he stoutly believed that the poacher had harboured a devil in him in the past.
Ford was on night duty at the time and he left the house with the old poacher and saw him to his own home, while good words passed between them.
Some people imagine that the otter exists entirely on fish, and for this reason should be done to death as a river-poacher at every opportunity.
Those who decry the otter as a fish-poacher should remember that the animal does not confine his attentions solely to one pool or to one species of diet during his nightly wanderings.
My glass soon told me that it was a prize worthy of every effort, nay, almost worth turningpoacher oneself.
As a rule, they make the best and most faithful keepers; experience in hundreds of cases testifying to the correctness of the old saying, that a good keeper is but a good poacher turned outside in.
The poacher is a man who thinks it waste of money to pay for a gun-license, and a waste of opportunities to respect the breeding season.
The storm having spent its fury, the gendarmes and the poacher left, and I was again alone.
He was a man of about fifty, who boasted to me that he had been a poacher from the age of fifteen, and had never been caught.
A poacher is by no means looked down upon in France.
The French poacher must not be judged by the same ethics as the English poacher.
While they were talking, in walked the most hardened and skilful poacher of the place, whose acquaintance I had made earlier in the day, and who made no secret to me of his business.
In the case of a poacher he had the scent of one of his own hares.
I mean," said Lady Selina, "was she in love with anybody else, and was the poacher an excuse?
But it will be a bench of landlords," cried Marcella; "of men with whom a poacher is already condemned.
The poacher was Marcella's friend, and she cannot now distract her mind from him sufficiently to marry Aldous, though every plan he has in the world will be upset by her proceedings.
Miss Raeburn, stitching away with fiery energy, "but since then a poacher has murdered one of our gamekeepers, which makes all the difference.
We talked Socialism, and then I defended her poacher for her.
Smoky Delbert was an especially viciouspoacher who belonged, and one day would land, in jail.
Yet, the boy found it in his heart to admit that, whoever had shot the poacher and forced him to crawl, wounded and bleeding, to the Fordham Road, was even more vicious.
Perhaps it was wrong for Amos to taunt the poacher after this fashion.
Almost before the surprised Amos realized what was happening, the giant poacher had leaped over to his side, and snatched the precious Marlin out of his hands.
That is, while these two poacher chaps are lying in a snug little ambush at some point along their own trail, why, we can be spying on the cabin on our own account?
In the silence of the wood the poacher cried like a little child, hid his friend under the ferns until he could return and bury him, and then turned on the badger's track.
The poacher was a dull fellow, an idle loafer who knew the county gaol intimately, ill-treated his wife and gave long hours to the ale-house.
One poacher had a valuable lurcher that would start off into the wood at a given signal and never return without a rabbit.
Reid]] The old snake-catcher passing down the woodland clearing in the morning found the poacher lying at peace, his spade gripped tightly in one hand.
The task would have been relatively easy if additional assistance had been to hand, but the poacher had no friends.
Presently the dull thud of a spade was heard by the mouth of the run, and the purpose of the poacher was clear.
All in vain the poacher called and called, until the coming of the morning light warned him to make his way home and return, without the impedimenta of his calling, to go through the wood in the guise of a peaceful pedestrian.
At the foot of the first slope he started to pile the loose earth using his hind-feet as readily as the others, and before the poacher was half-way down the barrier was strong enough to have kept a dog at bay.
As the poacher moved along all his gifts so long latent, stimulated by grief and rage, he became for the time one with the wood and its denizens.
The poacher was drunk with passion; the impenetrable dignity of the night and the silence of his foe seemed to set his blood on fire.
Every poacher knows that the difficulty lies not so much in obtaining the game as in transporting it safely home.
As with some other methods already mentioned, the trappoacher is only a casual.
A shilling so earned is to the young poacher riches indeed; money so acquired is looked upon differently from that earned by steady-going labour on the field or farm.
The poacher carefully selects his ferrets, and from the nature of his trade he cannot afford to work bad ones.
Of all poaching that of pheasants is the most beset with difficulty; and the pheasant poacher is usually a desperate character.
It need hardly be said that our poacher is a compound of many individuals--the type of a numerous class.
The human scent left at gaps and gateways by ploughmen and shepherds the wary poacher will obliterate by driving sheep over the spot before he begins operations.
The poacher notes these mist caps hanging to the hill tops, and then, bag in hand, walks parallel to miles and miles of fence.
Poaching is one of the fine arts, and the most successful poacher is always a specialist.
Only let the poacher know his whereabouts, and the latter's work is easy.
It is untrue, as has been said, that the poacher is always a mercenary wretch who invariably sells his game; he as frequently sends in a brace of birds or a hare to a poor or sick neighbour.
If the poacher has not accurately marked down his game beforehand, a much wider net is needed.
Although most of the summer the poacher is practically idle, it is at this time that he closely studies the life of the fields, and makes his observations for winter.
It has been already remarked that the poacher is nothing if not a specialist.
This facilitates observation, but it also assists thepoacher in his silent trade.
The poacher would make the most of such splendid opportunities, but his fraternity are scarce upon the moors, and the keepers are not much bothered by such gentry.
The other poacher had barely time to change his course, so as to avoid the snag; but he was unable to stop and render assistance to his fallen comrade.
The poacher dashed ahead, straining every nerve, and reached safely the foot of the steep declivity.
The poacher was gaining upon them; there could be no doubt of it.
No; that might give the poacher an excuse for sending back a bullet with a less innocent purpose.
This man is a notorious poacher and trespasser, whom my deputies have long been tracking in vain.
At length, however, the stout form of the poacher was seen descending the small steep path which led from the moor into the sand-pit.
The poacher had left his own door about a quarter of an hour, when two men took their way down into the sand-pit, the one on horseback, the other on foot.
The child toddled out right gladly, and the poacher set himself down to mend his bird-net; but ever and anon he laid down the cunning meshes on his knee, and let his thoughts entangle themselves in links not less intricate.
He had given that poacher a bright half-crown, he remembered, and his firm lips twitched a little over the recollection.
The two shillings were very welcome, but more than the money was the pleasing thought that he had got the bird shot by the hypocritical old poacher for his own profit.
From this case, a most innocent form of poaching, he went on to relate how he had once been able to deprive a cunning poacher and bad man, a human sparrowhawk, of his quarry.
The village poacher as a rule is an idle, dissolute fellow, and the sober, industrious, righteous shepherd or ploughman or carter does not like to be put on a level with such a person.
Personally, I'd cheerfully take a ninety-nine-year sentence in the Lunar mines in place of what the Khatkans dish out to a poacher they net!
The poacher and the outlaw Hunters will meet with our justice, which I do not believe they will relish.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poacher" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: booster; crook; ghoul; grafter; lifter; poacher; prowler; robber; shoplifter; swindler; thief
