Fowles

Labels: anthony burgess, d.h. lawrence, falling from fashion, john fowles, william golding posted by bibliobibuli at 5: 50 PM ❋ Sharon Bakar (2006)

Labels: british authors, john fowles posted by bibliobibuli at 7: 05 AM ❋ Sharon Bakar (2005)

A translation of Lawrens Andrewe's "The noble lyfe & nature of man, Of bestes, serpentys, fowles & fisshes y be moste knowen". ❋ Wynn Williamson (2006)

And thanne alle his frendes maken hire avaunt and hire dalyance, how the fowles comen thider, here 5, here 6, here 10, and there 20, and so forthe: and thei rejoyssen hem hugely for to speke there of. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And these with huntyng and foulyng in sondrie wise, so kiepe vndre the beastes and hurtefull foules: that whear other wise the housebande menne should in siede tyme, and towarde harueste, be muche acloyed34 and hyndered by the fowles, and theim selues alwaie by the beastes, the countrie is quiete from al suche annoyance. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Thei vse not to bewrie their deade bodies, vntill thei haue bene torne with dogges, or with fowles. ❋ Unknown (2004)

And the fowles of raveyne of alle the contree abouten knowen the custom of long tyme before, and comen fleenge aboyen in the eyr, as egles, gledes, ravenes and othere foules of raveyne, that eten flesche. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We had also rosted Hennes with sundry sorts of fowles to me vnknowen. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But by reason that those which arriue there vse to discharge their ordinance, and to hunt and pursue the saide beastes and fowles, they are now growen exceedingly wilde and hard to be come by. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There be diuers found amongst them that be minstrels, and can play vpon the lute, who with their delectable musicke ensnare and take both fowles and fishes. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Of other fowles their principal kinds are the swan tame and wilde, (whereof they haue great store) the storke, the crane, the tedder of the colour of a feasant, but far bigger and liueth in the firre woods. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Moreouer they marked, or (as it were) painted their bodies in diuerse sorts and with sundrie shapes and figures of beasts and fowles, and therefore they vsed not to weare anie garments, that such painting of their bodies might the more apparantlie be séene, which they estéemed ❋ Raphael Holinshed (N/A)

It is well to bear in mind his information that "two or three hours after a good meal of three or four dishes of mutton, veal or beef, kid, turkeys or other fowles, our stomackes would bee ready to faint, and so wee were fain to support them with a cup of chocolatte." ❋ Brandon Head (N/A)

_There be some fowles of sight so prowd and starke, ❋ George Puttenham (N/A)

I have specially provided 5 or 6 big and strong cock fowles and their females for boiling on the day they will honour my poor house and some biscuits and sodda waters and whisky. ❋ Harold Begbie (1900)

There it means turning a track of land into a forest, and a forest did not mean land covered with timber trees, but a "certain territory of woody grounds and fruitful pastures, privileged for wild beasts and fowles of the forest to rest and abide in," in "the protection of the King for his princely delight and pleasure." ❋ Alfred Hopkinson (1895)