While I stood meditating and moralizing over the wreck I had so wantonly produced, with my horse grazing near me, I was rejoined by my fellow-sportsman, the Virtuoso; who, being a man of universal adroitness, and withal, more experienced and hardened in the gentle art of "venerie," soon managed to carve out the tongue of the buffalo, and delivered it to me to bear back to the camp as a trophy. ❋ Unknown (1835)
Dunois, as well as others, follow upon this false scent, and enjoyed in secret the thought of triumphing over that accomplished knight in the art of venerie, which was then thought almost as glorious as war. ❋ Unknown (2008)
The plaine smoth of the settles, where-vpon the boxe trees stoode, couered ouer with Histories of loue and venerie, in a worke of silke and threddes of golde and siluer, in suche a perfect proportioned ymaginarie and counterfaiting as none may goe beyonde. ❋ Francesco Colonna (N/A)
Touching the others, Mr Rawlings and Ernest Wilton were both good shots, although not very familiar with "the noble arte of venerie," as hunting the deer was styled in the days of Shakespeare, who is reported, by the way, to have been an adept in the pursuit: while, of course, ❋ Unknown (N/A)
And with him in degree of venerie are accounted the hare, boar, and wolf. ❋ Thomas Malory Jean Froissart (N/A)
` ` Nay, your Majesty will pardon me to remind you, that I have by mine office right to grant liberty to men of gentle blood, to keep them a hound or two within the camp, just to cherish the noble art of venerie; and besides, it were a sin to have maimed or harmed a thing so noble as this gentleman's dog. '' ❋ Unknown (1894)
A universal tradition, ascribed to Sir Tristrem, famous for his love of the fair Queen Yseult --- the laws concerning the practice of woodcraft, or venerie, as it was called, being those that related to the rules of the chase, ❋ Unknown (1894)
--- Prior, that last flourish on the recheat hath added fifty crowns to thy ransom, for corrupting the true old manly blasts of venerie. '' ❋ Unknown (1892)
Now there came shouts on the wind, cries of venerie, loud laughter, and snatches of songs. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Exhausted with so lengthened an exposition of the charms of the venerie and the hallali, he stopped, and dropped a walnut into some Regency sherry. ❋ 1839-1908 Ouida (1873)
And this it is, I am the King's son of Al-Irak and my sire's prop and stay in the House of the World, and he reared me with the fairest of rearing; but when I had grown to man's estate and had learnt the mysteries of venerie I longed one chance day of the days to ride forth hunting and birding. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
Baghdad-city a huntsman-wight in venerie trained aright. ❋ Anonymous (1855)
As the species of hunting prosecuted by these worthies is not laid down in any of the ancient books of venerie, and is, in fact, peculiar to our western frontier, a word or two on the subject may not be unacceptable to the reader. ❋ Irving, Washington, 1783-1859 (1850)
Just such a brace of professionals has come out with the Armstrong colony -- their names, Alec Hawkins and Cris Tucker -- the former an old bear-hunter, who has slain his hundreds; the latter, though an excellent marksman, in the art of _venerie_ but a tyro compared with his partner. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)
Then, by degrees, the hunters entered the forest, and the notes of venerie became more faint and the shouts more distant. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
The ladies, looking like Diana or her nymphs, were mounted on cream-colored Anatolian chargers, with golden bells; while Mr. Phoebus himself, in green velvet and seven-leagued boots, sounded a wondrous twisted horn, rife with all the inspiring or directing notes of musical and learned venerie. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
In the course of the present afternoon, he went forth by himself to take a lesson in venerie and, to his great delight, had the good fortune to kill a buffalo. ❋ Washington Irving (1821)
