It will go the way of badger-baiting and mead as a way of kids getting their rocks off. ❋ Push Jelly (2008)
Weller, and Mrs. Gamp, and all the Pickwickians, and Mr. Dowler, and John Browdie — these and their immortal companions were reared, so to speak, on the beef and beer of that naughty, fox-hunting, badger-baiting old England, which we have improved out of existence. ❋ Unknown (2006)
When I talks of dog-fighting, I of course means rat-catching, and badger-baiting, ay, and bull-baiting too, just as when I speaks religiously, when I says one I means not one but three. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Lumpy closed the entertainment by announcing that the next evening would be a mixture of cockfighting and badger-baiting. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- (2001)
Otter-hunting and badger-baiting filled in the time, so that Brown had never been so well amused in his life. ❋ Samuel Rutherford Crockett (N/A)
The English, for instance, exclaim against the barbarity of the bull-fight, as compared with the noble sport of cock-fighting, badger-baiting, &c. ❋ Various (N/A)
An otter-hunt the next day, and a badger-baiting the day after, consumed the time merrily. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The Brocas was a meadow sacred to badger-baiting and cat-hunts. ❋ Tuckwell, Rev W (1902)
Mr. Dowler, and John Browdie -- these and their immortal companions were reared, so to speak, on the beef and beer of that naughty, fox-hunting, badger-baiting old England, which we have improved out of existence. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
British pastime of badger-baiting or plagiary-hunting. ❋ Grant Allen (1873)
A little illicit badger-baiting is varied by a little vicar-baiting; the mass of the inhabitants are the reddest of Reds. ❋ Richard Jefferies (1867)
'Charley,' says papa, not quite relishing this disturbance in the midst of a very interesting badger-baiting -- 'Charley, my boy, if you don't mind your P's and Q's, you and I shall fall out; mind that;' and he again goes on with his sport; and mamma goes on with her teapot, looking not exactly like Patience on a monument. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
On adjourning, Hugh Miller, in his racy style, gives the following account of a badger-baiting more than forty years ago: -- ❋ Adam White (1848)
When I talks of dog-fighting, I of course means rat-catching and badger-baiting, ay, and bull-baiting too, just as when I speaks religiously, when I says one I means not one but three. ❋ George Henry Borrow (1842)
A man has been given a suspended jail sentence for badger-baiting with dogs, which "appalled" magistrates. ❋ Unknown (2011)
