For their pleasure and sport Guivret caused to be taken with them rich falcons, both young and moulted, many a tercel and sparrow-hawk, and many a setter and greyhound.
In 1876, however, she sent to the Philadelphia Exposition a picture of "Setter Dogs.
Thomas-Soyer exhibited "An Irish Setter and a Laverock," and in 1903 "Under the White Squall.
And so you have parted with that savage brute of a Mastiff that worried my setter the last time I was here," he said to the Ostler.
The head of the English Setter should not be so heavy as the Pointer's, nor so wide across the ears.
The head of the Irish Setter should be long, narrow, yet wide in the forehead, arched or peaked cranium behind.
If the ground I shoot over suits the Pointer, the Pointer suits me, but I do not think he is quite so well adapted for the gun as the Setter, provided the Setter is of equal talent and adequately broken.
Grace, a setter bitch that I worked at the same time as Rap, was charming in every way.
The best setter I ever handled was Ben, an ivory coloured setter, a first cross between a Gordon and a Laverack.
For many years Smoker, in the season, worked on grouse, with Daisy, a setter bitch, and with other dogs.
Once when I was out shooting with a setter near Pirogovo, I drove in to Uncle Seryozha's to stop the night.
I can remember as well as I remember myself my father's favorite dog in those days, an Irish setter called Dora.
This setter had a quality, not over-common with members of his grand breed; a trait which linked his career pathetically with that of a livery-plug.
They had made their way for nearly an hour over a rough and miry river-bottom when the setter showed sudden excitement and began sniffing to the right and left.
The setter looked at me an instant, then at the sergeant and corporal, walked to the door, looked out, and then glanced questioningly at me.
On a beautiful lawn before a fine mansion on the eastern shore of the Hudson River, beneath the shade of a stately elm, stands a small monument, upon the top of which rests a finely chiselled model of a setter dog.
The setter rose, dropped her head, and, turning dejectedly, disappeared with drooping tail into the tall grass.
JOAN" IS BEGUN It was hoped that the profits from the Yankee would provide for all needs until the great sums which were to come from the type-setter should come rolling in.
His business struggle and the type-setter had consumed not only his fortune, but his time and energy.
He has no fence, but two of his neighbors have each a setter dog.
An hour later I saw those two setter dogs wrestling and sprawling around in joyous circles all over those garden beds.
Sylvia as she and the setter started out over the sand.
One brick projected ever so slightly from the others, and it was at this the setter was clawing.
The setter came fawning to her side and unwillingly dropped his prize at her feet.
Chapter V The nose of the setter quivered and, going to the window, he growled.
It cannot for a moment be doubted that the setter has superior advantages to the pointer, for hunting over our uncleared country, although the pointer has many qualities that recommend him to the sportsman, that the setter does not possess.
We beg leave to finish this history of the setter by referring to our essay on this dog, published in vol.
The setter has natural claims upon the sportsman and man generally, in his affectionate disposition and attachment to his master, and the many winning manners he exhibits towards those by whom he is caressed.
About this time it had been remarked that a white setter dog, belonging to Mr. Beverly, had left the Griper for several nights past at the same time, and had regularly returned after some hours absence.
On the other hand, the pointer is superior to the setter in retaining his acquired powers for hunting, and not being naturally enthusiastic in pursuit of game, he is more easily broken and kept in proper subjection.
A true Irish setter will obtain a higher price than either an English or Scotch one.
Mr. Blaine had a favourite setter who had virulent mange five years.
But she was content with his answer and his rough kiss, and when he had gone out into the gray morning, calling his mongrel setter from its kennel, she went back up the stairs and threw herself on her icy bed.
I have myself known of one setter dog which would thrash its puppy soundly if the latter carelessly or stupidly flushed a bird.
But it was that Gordon setter there that reminded me of her.
It controlled her there at the glacier and gave her strength to turn back, when the setter refused to come.
She seemed in that moment to see that other canyon, stretching down from the glacier, and those two skirting the edge of cliffs, treading broken stairs, pursued by the cry of the setter into the gathering gloom of the Arctic night.
While I hesitated, allowing her a few minutes to take in the glory, the setter ran nosing ahead, up over the wreckage along the edge of the glacier, and on across the bridge.
The next instant her hand fell to the neck of a fine Gordon setter and, tugging at his collar, she drew back and stood surveying me from head to foot.
He was on his way out to have the claim recorded and get supplies and mail when he heard the baying setter and, rounding the mouth of the pocket, saw the camp and the dead prospector.
The setter hampered me and was frantic when I turned away, alternately following me a few yards, whining and begging, and rushing back to his master.
The fox was a magnificent specimen of his breed, tall and heavy as a setter dog, with beautiful appealing eyes.
The setter wagged his tail and introduced himself.
The first day of autumn, as he walked through Central Park, a magnificent Irish setter lifted his fine head and spied him.
The Type-setter comprises a case, a stick, and a justifier.
It seems, too, that skill in operating the setter is easily acquired.
The setter has been operated in competition with two superior compositors of many years’ practice, and has done more work than both, on fair and equal terms.
She was initiated into the ready use of the type-setter in five minutes’ instruction.
But the mechanical type-setter is essentially a modern invention: it is the contribution of this age to the art.
This Type-setter was brought to perfection several years ago; but the necessity of a distributing machine was soon realized.
The Irish setter was a wild, undisciplined pup, harebrained and headlong after the manner of his breed.
After a moment's wise hesitation, the black and white mongrel joined battle, while the setter contributed a great deal of noisy encouragement.
The raccoon knew the dog, from a distance, for the young, unbroken, brown Irish setter which had lately come to the neighbour farm.
This was quite too much for his jarred nerves, and with a howl, as if he already felt those white teeth crunching to the bone, the setter turned and fled.
He spent the rest of the afternoon about the place, picking up the tool house, playing with Bobby, training Duke, the black and whitesetter dog.
Duke, the black and white setter dog, begged to follow him.
They went out together, while awaiting dinner, to see the new setter puppy in the woodshed.
Even the Titian-haired setter recognized the imperial nature of the woodcock, and was all emotion about the willow-clumps.
The chestnut setter roused himself from behind the tent, and came in front of it, and barked joyously at a yellow-hammer which had chosen a great basswood tree with deadened spaces for an early morning experiment toward a breakfast.
The setter just outside the tent became uneasy, and dashed into a thicket near, and there was a snort and the measured, swift thud of feet flying in the distance.
You never can tell what kind of a bird dog a setter will make till you've tried him out.
After awhile he returned and announced that Romulus had been paired with another setter named Dolly Grey.
But he's got no nose, none at all, and a setter with no nose is about useless in the field.
The two setter puppies had been growing rapidly and had been allowed to run out in the yard as the April days grew warmer.
The setter sprang up, yawned, and then stood ready for the next command.
I don't want to make any unpleasant comparisons, but to my mind the Irish setter is the handsomest of the family, though as a sporting dog he does not rank with the English setter.
Like the setterhe has been trained to point and retrieve.
At last Romulus was called, and with him the setter Dolly Grey.
The development of the setter is an interesting story, but first we'll have to go back to the spaniels.
A small lemon-and-white female setter named Dorothea was pitted against a somewhat overgrown blue belton of the same species.
He is the dog, you know, that contests with the English setter the title of most popular and efficient gun dog.
He strains back to hound origin, probably, but was developed as a distinct breed in Europe long ago, doubtless with the help of setter and foxhound crosses.
He merely kept a suspicious eye on her, pointing her as a setter points a bird.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "setter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
