She had been taken outside enough times on a creance to know all the places where escape might be possible. From Wordnik.com. [Winds Of Fate]
A young gentleman very light of foot and light of heart, whistling merrily as he rewound the creance and soothed the ruffled bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
Janyn was strolling jauntily back towards his headland and the open fields, where he could fly the merlin on his creance without tangling her in trees to her confusion and displeasure. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
The sky had partially cleared by then, a mild and milky sun was warming the air without quite disseminating the mist, and the young man who came strolling along a headland with a hound at his heel and a half-trained merlin on a creance on his wrist had dew-darkened boots, and a spray of drops on his uncovered light-brown hair from the shaken leaves of some copse left behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil's Novice]
Sous cette creance nous protestons que l ` a ou la parole de. From Wordnik.com. [The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.] Reference
Page 116 used as her creance, some three or four feet in length, was attached to his jesses, and served in some degree to embarrass his progress, as it was dragged through the grass. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II.] Reference
Then binding on the jesses, with the leash and creance, each made fast to the other, she sallied out upon the lawn, attended by her squire, until she reached a spot at a distance from any tree, where she intimated to Harvey that she would now let Fairbourne fly. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
Bel supposed that by fastening the jesses to his legs, -- or I should say, speaking like one versed in the mystery, his arms, -- and the leash to the jesses, and the creance to that, Fairbourne would be as secure in the empyrean as on his perch: she had only to manage him as a boy manages his kite. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
For we reneyed Mahoun oure creance?. From Wordnik.com. [The Canterbury Tales] Reference
Of misbelieve a gret creance. From Wordnik.com. [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference
Thei holde affermed the creance. From Wordnik.com. [Confessio Amantis, or, Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins] Reference
Page 270 which she termed a creance. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
"Is not here my creance?" asked Bel, in reply. From Wordnik.com. [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference
"But bear in mind you're flown on a creance. From Wordnik.com. [The Virgin In The Ice]
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