For example, in the "Olden Days," people used to go to bear-baitings. ❋ BikeSnobNYC (2009)
Speaker Pelosi, John Conyers, Carl Levin and their supporters are now close to repeating this destructive exercise with hearings intended to be little more than bear-baitings of the defeated Bush Administration. ❋ Unknown (2009)
He loved the rough exercises of wrestling, boxing, leaping, and quarterstaff, and frequented, when he could obtain leisure, the bull-baitings and foot-ball matches, by which the burgh was sometimes enlivened. ❋ Unknown (2008)
So were bear baitings and witch burnings in the Dark Ages. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Not necessarily a very nice audience - the kind that would have gone to cockfights and bear baitings. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2007)
We had bull-baitings, and badger-drawings, and hustings, and prize-fights, and cock-fights; we went to see men hanged; the pillory and the stocks were no empty “terrors unto evil-doers,” for there was commonly a malefactor occupying each of these institutions. ❋ Unknown (2006)
I've seen through their baitings -- have remained imperturbably serene and swallowed their studied insults. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2006)
Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts wakes, fairs and bear-baitings. ❋ Unknown (2004)
He did not really think that Lord Henry would take a boy not yet thirteen to a whorehouse, but he suspected that Lord Henry would know where all the cock-fights, dog-fights, bear-baitings, and less-than-pure masques would be shown. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2004)
Clerkenwell, a place of public diversion, was famous for its bear and bull baitings. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I have given, remembers the bull-baitings at Rochdale, not thirty years ago. ❋ Unknown (2002)
_Amphitheaters_, were exhibited all maner of other shewes & disports for the people, as their ferce playes, or digladiations of naked men, their wrastlings, runnings leapings and other practises of actiuitie and strength, also their baitings of wild beasts, as Elephants, Rhinocerons, ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)
But surpassing in their terrible fascination all other public amusements were the animal-baitings and the gladiatorial combats of the arena. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)
The beasts required for the baitings were secured in different parts of the world, and transported to Rome and the other cities of the empire at an enormous expense. ❋ Philip Van Ness Myers (N/A)
There are no longer any brutal dog-and-bear-baitings at the Barrière du Combat. ❋ Various (N/A)
I trust the burghers of Florence, and the new _Gonfaloniere_, whoever he may be, will not forget the dun cows of the Cascina, or their baitings with the tender vetches. ❋ Various (N/A)
Such were the amusements and such the moral reflections of a country tradesman in the middle of the last century, Fielding, Smollett, and the other novelists described the same kind of life: the same succession of brawls, drunken sprees, cock-fights, boxing matches, and bull-baitings. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)
To any one who studies that period, the stocks, the whipping post, the gibbet, cock fights, prize-fights, bull-baitings, accounts of rapes, are simply the outward signs of an all-pervading cruelty. ❋ Bayard Tuckerman (N/A)
We see children laughing at the miseries which they inflict on every unfortunate animal which comes within their power; all savages are ingenious in contriving, and happy in executing, the most exquisite tortures; and the common people of all countries are delighted with nothing so much as bull-baitings, prize-fightings, executions, and all spectacles of cruelty and horror. ❋ Various (N/A)
Scarcely a town by the margin of the ocean could be more salt in its people than the men of Liverpool of the last century: so barbarous were they in their amusements, bull-baitings and cock and dog-fightings, and pugilistic encounters. ❋ A Nonagenarian (N/A)
Friend #1: [Tyson] [Beckford] is the bait!!
Friend #2: [Yeah girl], he's soooo cute.
Friend #1: You see that girl over there man?
Friend #2: Yeaaahh, she cute. She gets all the bait! ❋ Ill Nanaaa (2009)
Don't [waste] your time with that [tweet], it was obviously [bait] ❋ Bestintheworld115 (2020)
(MEANING 1)
A: [Duck him down] and take his phone
B: Nah man, that’s [bait]. He’ll see that it’s me
(MEANING 2)
A: Bruv, I might go London [uno]
B: That place is bait ❋ SlangForDays (2021)
I called (name) out on their shitty grammar in the hopes that they would get [fired up]. They took [the bait] and have been trying to [talk down] to me for an hour now. ❋ Dickbuttarina (2015)
Jack: "[hay] Tom, Jon was wearing a gold [Rolex] in [Wal-Mart] last night."
Tom: "Oh… you mean he was baiting for chicks in Wal-Mart last night." ❋ Team Baiting Ftw (2010)
it was so bait [dat] it was u who [stole] [my phone] ❋ Drimond (2005)
Person Number Juan: [Ez game] ez lyfe
Person Number Too: It's spelled as, "Life". :D
Person Number Juan: u got [baited] m8 lmao
Person Number Too: It was [a fucking joke] dipshit, you even know what baited means
Person Number Juan: u keep gettin baited fag ❋ ChronicClub (2016)
Dont make it look to [baite] homeboy
Nah [dnt] [thts] too baite nigga ❋ Sunshine Teddy (2006)
“Is he still [coming]”
“[Nah] he’s [bait]” ❋ MakB59 (2018)
User 1: This is [the best thing] since [Harry] [Potte]
User 2: Harry what?
User 3: Great bait, mate ❋ Frabrizio (2017)
