The springesbeing made, the snarer cuts as many twigs about eighteen inches in length as he intends hanging springes.
Ducks, moorhens, and dabchicks can be caught with nooses or springes made of a sufficient number of hairs or strands of gut, and suspended to a line fixed across the ditches and small streams they are known to frequent.
I always make myspringes of silkworm gut, used in fishing, as being stronger and practically invisible.
This, however, was a less sorrow to me than the chalices; and I only bade the people make springes and snares, in order next morning to begin our fowling, with the help of Almighty God.
After we had all prayed most devoutly, we presently set to work, wedging the springes into the trees, and hanging berries all around them; while my daughter took care of the children, and looked for blackberries for their breakfast.
They caught some fowls with springes made of an old horsehair wig, which were very tough and of a fishy taste, but after three or four days, they became acquainted with the springes and were never afterwards to be taken by that means.
The woodcock has generally been proverbial as a foolish bird--perhaps because it is easily caught in springes or nets.
To the thin ends of these saplings he bound tightly, into notches cut in the wood, and secured by a multiplicity of twisting, the catgut springes he had brought from the camping ground.
After many failures, however, this happy medium was discovered; and Rufus Dawes, concealing his springes by means of twigs, smoothed the disturbed sand with a branch and retired to watch the effect of his labours.
He would set springesfor the seagulls, and snare the pigeons at Liberty Point.
Rufus Dawes now thought it time to secure his prize, though three of the springes were as yet unsprung.
O dear my son, be not deceived by a woman immodest of speech lest her snares waylay thee[FN#22] and in her springes thou become a prey and thou die by ignominious death.
With hairy springes we the birds betray, Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
With hairy springes we the birds betray, 25 Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Ptarmigan are said by Daniels, in his "Rural Sports," to be led up to springes in nearly the same manner, stones being substituted for furze.
The workman, who at this season earns a second harvest by this pursuit, carries on his industry in wilder districts, or he frequently obtains permission from his employer to set springes in his master's woods.
With about half a dozen of these springes coiled in an oval tin box I am ready to snare any small bird whose haunt I may discover.
The springes being made and the season of migration near, he goes for a day to his intended place of sojourn, and cuts as many twigs, about 18 in.
The family departs together in the month of September, and then some are taken in nooses or springes baited with elderberries.
These birds may be caught during the whole of the summer with nooses and springes baited with cherries, red currants, or elderberries.
If they are caught for the room (and it is a pity to hunt so pretty a bird for the table), it is necessary, in order to preserve their feet, to cover the springeswith felt or cork.
With hairy springes we the birds betray, 25 Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey, Fair tresses man's imperial race insnare, And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Very sommer is knowe from the winter: in shorter cours draweth the dayes of Decembre than in the moneth of June; the springes of Maye faden and +falowen in Octobre.
Also the yere with-draweth floures and beautee of herbes and of erth; the same +yere maketh springes and jolite in Vere so to renovel with peinted coloures, that erthe semeth as gay as heven.
Everywhere and by all he is hated; but look you to it lest haply even now he is laying more springes for souls.
Springes with horsehair nooses on the ground were also set for woodcocks and for wild ducks.
Such mole-catchers' bows or springes used to be seen in every meadow, but are now superseded by the iron trap.
Philip Bliss into Henry Parrot, who published a collection of epigrams in 1613, as "Laquei Ridiculosi, or Springes for Woodcocks.
The springes were set at short spaces apart on either side of two forest paths.
With which mysterious remark she went off to set springesfor that Love with a big L, which was to settle all things.
For women like Grace Arbuthnot are never more inconsequent than they are in regard to Love with a big L; since in one breath they call it Heaven-sent, and the next set springes to catch it as if it were a woodcock or a hedge-sparrow!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "springes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
