| 单词 | battue |
| 例句 | As the only Grand Slam contested on clay — in this case, the so-called terre battue, which is essentially crushed brick — the French Open stands apart from Wimbledon and the Australian and U.S. Perspective | The French Open, ‘unique in all the world,’ demands a dancer’s agility and an iron will 2020-05-15T04:00:00Z The temple of terre battue was then simply called Le Court Central. For Jim Courier, Remembering When America’s Big 4 Ruled the Men’s Game 2016-06-04T04:00:00Z We outline whom they face first, how far they might go, and what would be a good French Open result for players from a nation that has traditionally struggled on the terre battue. Serena and beyond: a closer look at America's French Open prospects 2015-05-23T04:00:00Z Courier, for one, was never averse to what the French call terre battue. Davis Cup Returns, With a Guarantee of Gritty Play 2012-04-05T23:27:19Z In a battue of this description a whole neighbourhood joins. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Now it is the exception for the millionaire not to make the spoils of his fashionable battue pay tithe to those for whom such food is often the best of physic. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The ladies walked about a little and followed some battues, and everyone assembled in the drawing-room for tea. Letters of a Diplomat's Wife 1883-1900 2012-02-12T03:00:13.210Z Without any of the cowardliness of battue shooting, in which the poor surrounded animals are helpless, and cruelly and mercilessly slain, you have far more excitement, and the sport is not unattended with danger. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z A grand hunt and battue in the forest, in which all hands engaged, even to the women and children. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z The battue of kangaroos is often rendered imperative by the rapid increase of the marsupials after the disappearance of their old enemies, the aborigines and the dingo. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z During a battue a man is accidentally shot by one of Dorian's guests. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z I have, however, little doubt that Rooks during the whole of their lives associate the memory of these battues with the appearance of a man armed with a gun. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z Roast veal has appeared amongst the delicacies of our table since the battue of yesterday, and Christian has asked for a portion of the old bear to carry home to his mother. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Preparations were now set about to form a grand battue. Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers 2011-12-12T03:00:34.923Z The battue is not so welcome to the sportsman as the chase of the forester. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z But he could offer no help in the matter of returning to the battue. Short Stories of the New America Interpreting the America of this age to high school boys and girls 2011-09-17T02:00:26.183Z It was a magnificent battue I must own. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z A successful battue requires no little finesse and patience exercised beforehand; weeks are spent in preparing for the amusement of a few hours. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Two or three battues of this kind take place every year, chiefly for the purpose of destroying the wolves that come in flocks and carry dismay into the sheep-folds. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z The silence is more effectually broken when shooting parties meet and the battue takes place. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z This conclusion come to, Don Estevan gives orders for all to arm, and a general battue is made over the summit of the Cerro. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z I have called it a hunt, but I might rather use the word “battue,” as will be seen, when I proceed with my recital. Richard Galbraith, Mariner Life among the Kaffirs 2011-08-04T02:00:26.337Z This sort of shooting, if it does not afford the excitement of the pheasant battue, or require the alertness necessary in partridge killing, is not without its special pleasures. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Fence and battue.—In the rice fields of the Far East the natives build numerous piles of brush and rice straw, and leave them for several days until many rats have taken shelter in them. House Rats and Mice Farmers' Bulletin 896 2011-03-12T03:00:26.220Z Devoted to the pleasures of hunting wild boars in the neighbourhood of Damascus, and shooting, his great delight was a battue of partridges; for the perfect enjoyment of which an excellent system had been established. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z While the battue is at its height, one large quadruped is put up which more than any other excites the ardour of those engaged. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z I stood still, not knowing what to do, and was just on the point of turning back, when something broke through the bushes as violently as though the woods were being beaten for a battue. Under a Charm, Vol. I (of III) A Novel 2011-02-14T03:00:34.700Z He shakes his head if you hint that perhaps it would save trouble to purchase the pheasants ready for shooting from the dealers who now make a business of supplying them for the battue. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z Many of them thought they would now be called upon to answer for the sins of Santa Anna, for the treason of Santa Fé, the slaughter of the Alamo, and the battue at Goliad. The Guerilla Chief And other Tales 2011-02-10T03:00:53.627Z I have already related how the queen persecuted the poor royal wolf with hunts and battues, so that he was the innocent cause of great trouble and inconvenience to the whole wolvine family. Fairy Tales From all Nations 2011-01-16T03:00:21.797Z To make sure, another grand battue is set on foot to embrace the whole summit area. The Lost Mountain A Tale of Sonora 2011-03-23T02:00:19.250Z "All the same, we're surely not going to organize a battue with lanterns and rouse the whole district for the sake of finding a woman . . ." The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z Then, when the game has been spirited away, the keeper’s object is to induce his employer to purchase full-grown pheasants—another chance of secret gratuities—and to turn them out for the battue. The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life 2011-08-04T02:00:21.507Z For the Vee-Boers it was a victory easier than they had anticipated; and over Royalty itself—a battue of grandest game, the kings of beasts. The Vee-Boers A Tale of Adventure in Southern Africa 2010-12-20T17:12:24.303Z When the rain subsided 15 minutes later, they removed the tarps, revealing the brilliant red terre battue beneath. At French Open, maintaining clay courts is a full-time job 2010-06-02T04:00:00Z To expect to win them over by pay, or retain them by discipline, was to hope to convert a poacher by inviting him to a battue. Tony Butler Round about it stand to-day five or six of the civilized nations, who have formed a battue, and are driving in the game. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu Because of this demand, present and future, European armies march over deserts and jungles, and slay thousands of natives in spectacular battues. American World Policies Upon such a juncture they strip off their clothes, and have a grand battue, all the members of the family and any friends who may have dropped in, taking part in the sport. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] Terre battue, which means "beaten earth" in French, is a mixture of crushed brick -- made of fired red clay -- and tile. At French Open, maintaining clay courts is a full-time job 2010-06-02T04:00:00Z Fian was the first victim in the grand battue offered now to the royal witchfinder; others were to follow, the manner of whose discovery was singular enough. Witch Stories When one makes its appearance, the authorities generally order a battue. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 We used to have regular battues of rats, killing them with our swords. Francezka That by day is by battue, when a whole tribe turns out to “beard the lion in his den” and make him break cover. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia "Taking care of a garden and tending to terre battue, they both require the same type of work," Tiquet said before matches started last Thursday. At French Open, maintaining clay courts is a full-time job 2010-06-02T04:00:00Z There had been a silver slipper battue through all the stores, and all had gone—it was, so one felt from the article, a crisis for all those who had been slow. Westward with the Prince of Wales The noise is as if a thousand sportsmen were out for a battue. The Pearl of the Antilles, or An Artist in Cuba The first day’s diversion was a grand battue. Francezka He had himself been surprised by one, just after dusk, on the road from Milianca, and offered to induce the Caid of the adjoining tribe to get up a battue on our return. Notes in North Africa Being a Guide to the Sportsman and Tourist in Algeria and Tunisia "It's true that there's much less terre battue than normally," Frenchman Florent Serra said after a match in scorching temperatures, when the courts were playing fast. At French Open, maintaining clay courts is a full-time job 2010-06-02T04:00:00Z There were five men upon a side, all carrying guns; as we passed, they were shaking hands, preparatory to separating for the battue. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo Instead of leading up to it gradually by a general battue of his children all round, he had to open upon his chief subject at once, which was not nearly so agreeable a way. Phoebe, Junior The battue was a magnificent spectacle in the forest, and was not over until late in the afternoon. Francezka In these battues, those who have fire-arms form two sides of a triangle, and are placed with their backs to the wind, along the roads which border the wood the traqueurs are about to beat. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Wild boars were plentiful, roebucks not so, hares innumerable in some of our battues. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. When nearer still the battue and stampede commenced, and the scene was then wild and confusing in the extreme. Our Home in the Silver West A Story of Struggle and Adventure Ossaroo had other resources besides the birdlime and the battue, and he at once set to work to prepare his plan. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains The termination of the battue was at length reached. The Giraffe Hunters The May and December battues are, therefore, looked forward to with immense impatience; and nothing short of sudden death, or an injured limb, prevents the country-people from hastening with alacrity to the rendezvous. Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches Having had a long morning's ride, our first day's battue was closed early. Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. The people wage more or less unsuccessful war upon them and at times they organize a sort of battue. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia They might have got up a grand battue to beat the jungle and attack the tiger in his lair, but what would have come of that? The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains A regular battue was established,—all hands taking share in it. The Giraffe Hunters And as he surveyed the battue he would gradually discern its tactics. Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868) After a battue in the Park in the winter of 1845, he directed one of the under-keepers to examine the ground carefully, which had been shot over the day before. Anecdotes of Dogs As at the Atbara, without halting, the line moved slowly on, the front rank firing as at a battue, each man independently. Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan My cousin could not respond to Michael the keeper's invitation to come down and make a battue for the wolves. Chatterbox, 1906 We all now came together, exulting in the fine fortune we had met with, for we had made a regular battue of it. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness A battue of Communards is obviously superior to a battue of pheasants. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Some mount and scour off toward the scene of the buffalo battue, still going on, far out upon the plain. The Scalp Hunters As it was, they hoped that, long before any one should discover the battue, the wolves and buzzard would do their work; and the bones would only supply food for conjecture. The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico It was to have been a battue, he explained. Chatterbox, 1906 I can promise you plenty of hunting adventures; and, when the proper season arrives, we shall have a grand battue of the beavers. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness This battue had proved such a tremendous success that the crews of the two transports had followed the example of their Service comrades, and had likewise had excellent sport. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas I looked towards Seguin, thinking that he might interfere to prevent the barbarous battue. The Scalp Hunters His master, being an Englishman, had the common English reverence for the Sunday, and would not shoot on that day, though by his conscientious abstention he missed, undoubtedly, the best battue the country-side afforded. Schwartz: A History From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray “Yes, a grand battue, on a grand scale, indeed.” The Mission; or Scenes in Africa As Rolfe promised, we had many hunting adventures; and among the rest, the battue of beavers—nearly two thousand of which were trapped and taken. The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness Very fine indeed: Seymour, this is something like a battue. The King's Own When Herbert is cured, we can organise a general battue of the island, and have satisfaction of these convicts. The Secret of the Island A herd of hundreds, and even thousands, is sometimes slaughtered at one of these battues. The Boy Hunters I'm perfectly sick of reading that everlasting rubbish about "pampered minions of the aristocracy slaughtering the unresisting pheasant in his thousands at battues." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 10, 1892 B. "Wait—how did you get away from the general battue?" On the Heels of De Wet September came, and brought some relief to those who were suffering in the inferno of provincial ennui; but this is only the purgatory to the Paradise of battues. The Young Duke Stalking sambar is by far the most enjoyable and sportsmanlike way of killing them, but more are shot in battues, or over water when they come down to drink. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon When they did kill any people, it was like killing pheasants at one of his famous battues. Captain Jinks, Hero To-day he has his battues by proxy on sea, land, and from the air. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers A battue is a hunt in which beaters force the game to flee in the direction of the hunter. On the Heels of De Wet A day is appointed for a grand battue. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands Horses were being saddled, powder served out, and arrangements made for a systematic battue of the robbers. Round About the Carpathians Accordingly, at each opportunity, with seeming innocence, I "wiped his eye," as they say at a battue, and certainly reaped the anecdotic "kudos" Mr. So-and-so had cunningly contrived and hoped to achieve for himself. My Life as an Author At the moment the Emperor and the Archduke, having returned from their battue, entered the room, whereupon the Archduchess, her voice shrill with indignation, poured out to her husband the story of von Tirpitz's proposal. The New Frontiers of Freedom from the Alps to the Ægean These great public hunts or battues are conducted under certain rules. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2 He confessed that he had a certain theoretical repugnance to a battue, if it were at all like what people in the newspapers declared it to be. Macleod of Dare We started for our first battue in capital time, taking with us a crowd of Wallack beaters. Round About the Carpathians In the vicinity of the towns, sometimes a regular battue takes place, when all kind of firearms are in requisition, from the old Tower musket to the celebrated Joe Manton. Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) We were rather detached and out of the main action, feeling rather like a gun that has been sent to stop birds from "going back" while the main battue is at work in front. With Rimington I detest battues and hot corners, and slaughter for slaughter's sake. The Life of Froude It would be a battle, not a battue. The Wings of the Morning For our next battue we turned right-about face, the beaters coming from the other side; but we had bad luck. Round About the Carpathians While the noisy battue hunted through the wood, the outlaws lay in their dark hole, listening breathlessly, panting with terror. Invisible Links The ladies then, for the first time, were made acquainted with the doubts, fears, perplexities, and battues, which, out of gallantry, they had hitherto been kept in ignorance of. Willis the Pilot He was not fond of battue; he enjoyed the excitement and exertion of the actual hunt as a means for exercise and recreation, for training the eye and quickening the blood. Akbar, Emperor of India On grand occasions there is held what is called a battue, when a number of deer are driven into an enclourse, and shot at by the sportsmen. The World's Fair The fact of a bear having been sighted encouraged us in keeping up our battues pretty late, but nothing more was shot that day. Round About the Carpathians I often made the round with W. and his keepers in the autumn when he was preparing a battue. Chateau and Country Life in France "Yes, a grand battue, on a grand scale, indeed." The Mission The Spaniards had a regular battue there; killing deer, hares, and rabbits till they were tired. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern As for us, we do not confound a battue with a persecution. The Man Who Laughs The result of the battues were not satisfactory. Round About the Carpathians For the second battue I went with Comte de B. That was rather worse, for he shot much oftener than W., and I was quite distracted with the noise of the gun. Chateau and Country Life in France Captain Cuffe wished to say battue; but, despising foreign languages, he generally made sad work with them whenever he did condescend to resort to their terms, however familiar. The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet The next day there was a regular battue, as the gendarmes beat up the fields and woods in search of the fugitives. On the Edge of the War Zone From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes "What is your average list of killed in a pheasant battue?" The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel Next morning when we started the weather had somewhat cleared, which was just as well, seeing we had to walk two or three miles to our first battue. Round About the Carpathians So he stepped back into the alley and waited until the battue was over. Chateau and Country Life in France Ours are always allowed a grand battue in the garden every year. A Cotswold Village There were shooting-parties and battues; there was a plenty of balls and entertainments at the hospitable Court; the society was generally good; the theatre excellent; and the living cheap. Vanity Fair A battue of helpless things driven savagely out of shelter. The Touchstone We formed one more battue, but nothing came of it, and it was already high time to return to our quarters, for the whole scene was growing dim in the wintry twilight. Round About the Carpathians We didn't linger very long at table, as the days were shortening fast, and we wanted to follow some of the battues. Chateau and Country Life in France Instead of birds and ground game being wounded time after time, at big battues they are killed stone dead by some well-known and acknowledged good shot. A Cotswold Village Apart from those battues and the measures of all kinds which Chanzy took to reorganise his army, little of immediate import occurred at Laval. My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Three days and all night A battue of larks the Leipsicker make; Every haul a hundred he takes, A thousand each flight. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 So we had to organise battue number two. Round About the Carpathians I climbed up when the battues were over. Chateau and Country Life in France They had waited for daylight in order to organise a /battue/ and hunt him down like some animal, whose weariness must necessarily ensure capture. The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 3 As the battue ended up came the rush of beaters and our trees were soon surrounded by a crowd of eager, exultant, infuriated beaters and huntsmen. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Some were in the north, and some were in the south; some were killing the last grouse, and some, placed in green ridings, were blazing in battues. Endymion In the next battue I had hardly been five minutes at my post when I heard from behind the breaking of dead branches, as of some animal advancing slowly. Round About the Carpathians Some walking, some driving, and had one pretty battue of rabbits; after that two of pheasants, which were most amusing. Chateau and Country Life in France The battue and the banquet were over; the ladies had withdrawn; and the butler placed fresh claret on the table. Coningsby But Jagersruh was not the goal of the excursion; it was a "deer-drive" or battue, which in Germany at least can be classed as "a relic of mediaeval barbarism." Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2 From the beginning of the battue it was easy to see that the hunt would be a good one. The Companions of Jehu Who had not heard of the battues of Col. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present There were usually two or three big battues in November for the neighbouring farmers and small proprietors. Chateau and Country Life in France They speak of the massacres at Kamakh, of the killing by the river, and of a battue through the cornfields, where the wheat was high, into which some Armenians had escaped. Crescent and Iron Cross On the other hand, when an author of the third or rare class writes, it is like a battue. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; The Art of Literature As the battue promised chiefly deer and hares, the guns were loaded with balls. The Companions of Jehu This was in both instances, as I understand, by the means of fair and square stalking, quite different from the methods of the more degenerate battue. American Big Game in Its Haunts It was a clear, cold night, and there seemed every prospect of a beautiful day for the battues. Chateau and Country Life in France Paris was like a forest in which Louis Bonaparte was making a battue of the Representatives; the wild beast was hunting down the sportsmen. The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness In this grand battue of the sea it was clearly impossible to round-up and capture every skittish son of Neptune. The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore Of the grand battue, and what the young Duke and Sidonia resolved on there. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 "We might have a battue in the wood," he proposed. The Great Impersonation In the middle dries, from June to September, the villagers sally forth en masse for a battue of elephants, whose spoils bring various luxuries from the coast. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 The soldiers were so closely packed together that they could make no use of their weapons, while the Turks were shooting them down like so many birds in a battue. Prince Eugene and His Times In 1656 a general battue for priests took place all over Ireland. Irish Race in the Past and the Present Of the grand battue, and what the young Duke and Sidonia resolved on there. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 As he was very much pleased with this idea of a hunt, Edmee undertook to organize, with my help, a general battue and to join in the sport herself. Mauprat These birds are especially on the spot when the blacks set fire to the bush and organise a big battue. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont That did not frighten me in the least; it seemed but natural that there should be some gun fired during a battue. Mauprat My hosts had evidently had a recent battue, or fire hunt, for they had a most extraordinary stock of food. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont Occasionally, however, the men did condescend to go out fishing, and they would also organise battues when a big supply of food was wanted. The Adventures of Louis De Rougemont I clung to the belief that one of the men in the battue had fired at Edmee by mistake, and that a feeling of fear and shame prevented him from confessing his misadventure. Mauprat |
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