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" Then after we had stayed there three hours or thereabouts, we might perceive the deer appear on the hills round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which being followed close by the... "
The Popular History of England: An Illustrated History of Society and ... - Page 205
by Charles Knight - 1874
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McIan's Highlanders at Home, Or, Gaelic Gatherings

James Logan - Highlands (Scotland) - 1900 - 288 pages
...like a wood), which being followed close by the Tinckell, are chased down into the valley where wee lay; then all the valley on each side being waylaid...greyhounds, they are let loose as occasion serves upon the hearde of deere, that with dogs, gunnes, arrowes, durks, and daggers, in the space of two houres, fourscore...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 192

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1900 - 612 pages
...hills round about us, their heads making a show like a wood, which being followed close by the Tinchel, are chased down into the valley where we lay ; then...a hundred couple of strong Irish greyhounds, they aro let loose as the occasion serves npon the herd of deer, so that with dogs, guns, arrows, dirks,...
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Transactions, Volume 23

Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1902 - 362 pages
...us (there heads making a show like a wood), which being followed by the tinckhell are chased down to the valley where we lay. Then all the valley on each...are let loose as occasion serves upon the herd of deere, that with dogges, gunnes, arrowes, durkes, and daggers in the space of two h cures four scores...
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Transactions, Volume 23

Gaelic Society of Inverness, Inverness Gaelic Society - Celtic literature - 1902 - 364 pages
...us (there heads making a show like a wood), which being followed by the tinekhell are chased down to the valley where we lay. Then all the valley on each...are let loose as occasion serves upon the herd of deere, that with dogges, gunnes, arrowes, durkes, and daggers in the space of two houres four scores...
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Chamber's Cyclopædia of English Literature, Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which, being followed close by the Tinchel, con's verses have a somewhat exceptional interest...Bacon-Shakespeare propaganda. Two poems have often been the occasion serves upon the herd of deer, so I hat, wilh dogs, guns, arrows, dirks, and daggers, in...
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The Highlanders of Scotland

William Forbes Skene - Clans - 1902 - 476 pages
...round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which, being followed close by the tinehell, are chased down into the valley where we lay ; then all the valley on each side being waylaid with an hundred couple of greyhounds, they are all let loose as occasion serves upon the herd of deer, that...
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The Great Events by Famous Historians: A.D. 843-1161

Charles Francis Horne, Rossiter Johnson - Great events by famous historians - 1905 - 428 pages
...many parks are enumerated. The word hay (liaia), which is still found in some of our counties, meant an enclosed part of a wood to which the deer were...upon the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, dirks, and daggers, in the space of two hours fourscore fat deer were slain." Domesday affords indubitable...
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Pryings Among Private Papers: Chiefly of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth ...

Thomas Longueville - Anecdotes - 1905 - 252 pages
...round about us (their heads making a shew like a wood) which being followed close by the Tinckhell, are chased down into the valley where we lay ; then all the valley on each side being way laid with a hundred couple of strong Irish grey-hounds,1 they are let loose as occasion serves...
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Poetical Works

Sir Walter Scott - 1908 - 992 pages
...round about us (their heads making a show like a wood), which, being followed close by the tinkhell, ore all let loose, as occasion serves, upon the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, durks,...
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The Poetical Works

Walter Scott - 1909 - 992 pages
...then, a harquebuss or a musket go off, which they do seldom discharge in vain. Then, after we had staid there three hours, or thereabouts, we might perceive...hundred couple of strong Irish greyhounds, they are all let loose, as occasion serves, upon the herd of deer, that with dogs, guns, arrows, durks, and...
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