A witness, for instance, before that Select Committee cheerfully proposed that poaching be made felony all round.
An impartial observer might be excused for thinking that the penalties for poaching are high enough to satisfy the most exacting.
In reading reports of poaching affrays it is well to remember that it is almost invariably the gamekeeper’s side of the case that is presented to the public.
When I first knew Gregor More, of Callander, his poaching days were over, for he had a mortal disease from having lain out in the fields one cold night.
Vincent Allen and George Hall, charged under the Poaching Prevention Act with being found in possession of a number of rabbits, and John Sparham, charged with aiding and abetting them.
James M'Gowan, charged under the Poaching Prevention Act with being found in possession of poaching implements and a number of rabbits.
Of course I'll put up my rod at once; and I will take the first opportunity of apologising for my crime; for poaching is a crime, isn't it?
By the way, I was told I was poaching by a young lady who rode down to the stream while I was fishing.
Black Brady, with a lively recollection of the few days in gaol which Trent had procured him in recompense for his poaching proclivities, was loud in his denunciation.
Tom could hear, though, that it was about some poaching fight; and at last Grimes said surlily, "Hast thou anything against me?
I thought we were hunting for poachers," answered Albert, dubiously; "and now we have been poaching ourselves.
I should think you were doing him an ill-turn in taking to poaching at your early age.
This poaching is always going on; the implement is so easily obtained and concealed.
A great deal of poaching used to be accomplished by nets, into which both partridges and pheasants were driven.
Fish-poaching is simple and yet clever in its way.
Trespassers give him a good deal of trouble, for a great wood seems to have an irresistible attraction for all sorts of semi-Bohemians, besides those who come for poaching purposes.
A bit of ash is the best physic for poachingas I knows on.
It is a curious fact that there are poaching villages and non-poaching villages.
For his own profit a keeper of this kind may indeed be trusted to preventpoaching on the part of other persons, whose gains would be his loss, since there would remain less for him to smuggle.
A good deal of what may be called casual poaching is also done on wheels.
There had been a great deal of poaching before the affray took place, and finally it grew to horse-stealing: one night two valuable horses were taken from the home park.
Unconfirmed legend, originating nearly a hundred years after the alleged event, is the sole basis for the report that Shakespeare was forced to leave his native town on account of his participation in a poaching adventure.
Looks like my youngpoaching friend, Caleb Kent," thought Oldroyd, as the man touched his cap obsequiously and plunged at once in through the thick undergrowth and was gone, while the lady drew herself up and came toward him.
A poaching affray was too common an affair in the neighbourhood of Brackley to make much stir.
Everyone knows I did a bit ofpoaching when I was a young fool, and did my bit in quod for that trouble with the keepers.
In his first novel, Heidepeters Gabriel, he already shows the hopeless struggle of the peasant against the devastation of his fields by game, a struggle which leads to poaching and to prison.
Merry Wives of Windsor as having come from Gloucestershire to Windsor to make a Star-Chamber matter of a poaching raid on his estate.
The poaching episode is best assigned to 1585, but it may be questioned whether Shakespeare, on fleeing from Lucy's persecution, at once sought an asylum in London.
A poaching adventure, according to a credible[25] tradition, was the immediate cause of his long severance from his native place.
The deer and hares and pidgeons Are imprisoned for his use, Yet, poaching lads from Stratford Pluck this strutting, feathered goose.
That means sending poor devils to prison for poaching your game, I suppose.
I think Mr. Ronald Mackenzie will be rather sorry he came poaching on our land when he turns it over in his mind.
You ought not to stay out to-night, for he dislikes poaching and you will be scolded.
The Marquis has written to me that you were to go out, bag and baggage, if I caught any one of you poaching again.
Just you say as I've been poaching agen, and I'll let you know.
While William Shakespeare was poaching on Avon banks, the little Francis was impressed with the utter inadequacy of Aristotle's method to grapple with {233}modern needs, and meditating its superseding with labors of his own.
The head master held poaching to be the deadliest of sins, and poachingon Fernwood especially heinous.
If I have dealt at undue length upon this subject, it is because, for the sake of my hero, I wish the reader to view such amateur poaching as his with as lenient an eye as possible.
In a secret place therein was hidden his gun, a store of powder and shot, and certain other matters connected with his poaching habits.
Latterly, the exploits of the poaching fraternity, and certain glaring cases of immorality and rural crime had come before him, as a county magistrate.
I prithee, avoid it; when a girl runs from a kiss you may take it for granted either that the germ crop is not ripe or you are poaching on somebody else's preserves.
Still, sealers poaching up there have simply disappeared.
They say, he was recognized among that poaching gang that had an affray with Sir James Hartrop's keepers.
A convenient character for you to begin with will be that of a man who, having got into a poaching fray, and hurt a gamekeeper, has made for London as the best hiding place.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poaching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
