The “creance” is the long, light cord for tethering a falcon in training. ❋ Sy Montgomery (2010)
Wherfore it semethe wel, that God lovethe hem and is plesed with hire creance, for hire gode dedes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
She had been taken outside enough times on a creance to know all the places where escape might be possible. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1991)
A young gentleman very light of foot and light of heart, whistling merrily as he rewound the creance and soothed the ruffled bird. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
The sky had partially cleared by then, a mild and milky sun was warming the air without quite disseminating the mist, and the young man who came strolling along a headland with a hound at his heel and a half-trained merlin on a creance on his wrist had dew-darkened boots, and a spray of drops on his uncovered light-brown hair from the shaken leaves of some copse left behind him. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1983)
The bird blinked her large eyes to adjust to the light, eyeing Jenny and Peter before turning to a panorama remembered from times past when those distances had been covered without the constriction of creance; leash or jess. ❋ Lambert, Willa (1982)
Unlike the falcon, Jenny wasn't bound to any perch by a leash, or held to any fist by a jess, or restrained by any fifty-yard creance to keep her from flying too far afield, but she was secured by love. ❋ Lambert, Willa (1982)
Thou knowest well the secret desires of him, thou hast been plainly informed, and they that be yet young in the faith with me trust much to be endoctrined of thee, and informed in their creance and belief: Lady, God salute thee. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Go alway in good creance, and believe and keep firmly the promise of thy christian faith, and do thy works according to the same. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Tyburtius of the joy of heaven and of the foul creance of paynims, the abuse of idols, and of the pains of hell which the damned suffer, and also they preached to him of the incarnation of our Lord, and of his passion, and did so much that Tyburtius was converted and baptized of S. Urban. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
And as they were led, they so preached the faith of our Lord to one called Maximus that they converted him to the christian faith, and they promised to him that if he had very repentance, and firm creance that he should see the glory of heaven which their souls should receive at the hour of their passions, and that he himself should have the same if he would believe. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
By this scripture, and by semblable, the holy prelates destroyed their false creance and belief, and by virtue also and by miracles, for in a solemnity of Easter, by many that were new baptized, in singing Alleluia they chased and drove away their enemies of Scotland, and strangers of other places, that were come for to grieve them. ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Hold thee always well in the faith and in good works, and let no persecution ne adversity that thou shalt suffer move thee from thy faith ne from thy creance, but have solace and affiance in Jesu Christ thy ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
Why wilt thou not abide in our amity, and worship the idols and renounce the vain opinion of thy creance? ❋ 1230-1298 (1900)
