battue

"Then we might yet get two or three beasts out of this failed battue?"

All this to enable a boy of sixteen to enjoy a battue.

They include 5 string quartets, an octet for wind called Battue, and other works.

When they went on battue, every able-bodied person was necessary to drive a herd into traps or over cliffs.

"If you want a blasted battue you had better beat a path to Walsingham's place.

Battue involves scaring animals (by beating sticks) into a killing zone or ambush.

'Only then did Friddley flash a signal, and the grand battue was under way.

They found a school of--not exactly fish--and cooperated in a battue.

His khaki uniform was splattered with blood; this was a grand battue all over again, a wild and savage slaughter.

The same rifle as FS, except that the sights are Battue type and the stock is not full length.

Treibjagd (Battue)

Richard knew an English farmer near Bloemfontein who could enlist enough blacks to put on a real battue for the young prince, and all was arranged.

Their conquest of backward planets was a mere battue; their skirmishes with rival starfaring nations were mostly aerial.

Martinez, a semifinalist here last year, is not the only player leaving deep footprints in the red surface the French call "terre battue," the field of battle.

The Beat (La Battue): A full coloured card showing a totem and several Rabbids with their eyes shut.

They came, the unholy crew, The mystic and the cynic: He had scoffed at God's battue, The flood for mortal's sin - Icthyosaurian Waterloo!

Terre Battue Synthétique a.k.a. TBS (Saint-Herblain, France)

During this BATTUE they killed certain animals peculiar to the country, the very names of which were unknown to Paganel; among others the "wombat" and the "bandicoot."

To guard against Africa's extreme heat, humidity and dust, Mr. Lee helped develop a specialized fabric called Battue, which is coated with polyurethane and has a foam core and a snag-resistant inner liner.

Panic-stricken, the unfortunate victims rush from their burning dwellings, and the men are shot down like pheasants in a battue, while the women and children, bewildered in the danger and confusion, are kidnapped and secured.

I dutifully plodded through the remaining stations occasionally bagging a bird but hitting the springing teal - which leaped vertically into the heavens only once - and failing utterly to connect with a fiendish target called the battue.

From 1978 onwards, "Eram-industrie" began to specialise in the production of tennis courts made from resin and polyurethane pellets, thus creating Terre Battue Synthétique (Synthetic Clay) and the "TBS" brand.

So it came about that I was really glad when Captain Robertson suggested that we should go down to a certain swamp formed, I gathered, by some small tributary of the Zambesi to take part in a kind of hippopotamus battue.

The bustling Sandaga market, for instance, is a brooding off-pink structure whose style echoes the spired terre battue (earthen-floored) markets and mosques of the Sahel, an arid buffer zone between the Sahara and the rainy savannah of West Africa's southern coast.

Cependant elle connaitra une contre-performance à l'épreuve des 8 000 mètres au cross-country d'Italie et aux Mondiaux de cross-country, où elle a été battue par Vivian Cheruiyot.