A huge prison battue was ordered.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

| On page 321, the word battue is not a typographical error.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference

| A battue is a hunt in which beaters force the game to |.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Heels of De Wet] Reference

"Then we might yet get two or three beasts out of this failed battue?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Game Of Empire]

So he stepped back into the alley and waited until the battue was over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

They found a school of -- not exactly fish -- and cooperated in a battue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Circus of Hells]

On the other hand, when an author of the third or rare class writes, it is like a battue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Literature] Reference

I often made the round with W. and his keepers in the autumn when he was preparing a battue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

The people wage more or less unsuccessful war upon them and at times they organize a sort of battue.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

In this grand battue of the sea it was clearly impossible to round-up and capture every skittish son of Neptune.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference

Some walking, some driving, and had one pretty battue of rabbits; after that two of pheasants, which were most amusing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chateau and Country Life in France] Reference

Their conquest of backward planets was a mere battue; their skirmishes with rival starfaring nations were mostly aerial.    From Wordnik.com.  [The High Crusade]

As at the Atbara, without halting, the line moved slowly on, the front rank firing as at a battue, each man independently.    From Wordnik.com.  [Khartoum Campaign, 1898 or the Re-Conquest of the Soudan] Reference

June to September, the villagers sally forth en masse for a battue of elephants, whose spoils bring various luxuries from the coast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo] Reference

"We might have a battue in the wood," he proposed.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Impersonation] Reference

The termination of the battue was at length reached.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Giraffe Hunters] Reference

A battue of helpless things driven savagely out of shelter.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Touchstone] Reference

A regular battue was established, -- all hands taking share in it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Giraffe Hunters] Reference

On the day of the sixth of June, a battue of the sewers had been ordered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Les Misérables] Reference

Of the grand battue, and what the young Duke and Sidonia resolved on there.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1] Reference

From the beginning of the battue it was easy to see that the hunt would be a good one.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Companions of Jehu] Reference

I looked towards Seguin, thinking that he might interfere to prevent the barbarous battue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

It was agreed that anything was better than dying like rats in a pit or wild animals in a battue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Andersonville — Volume 2] Reference

Some mount and scour off toward the scene of the buffalo battue, still going on, far out upon the plain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Scalp Hunters] Reference

During the battue, rabbits scampered out of the bushes where they had been hiding and toward the open field.    From Wordnik.com.  [Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day] Reference

It was a man-hunt, a brutal and cruel battue, during which the city resounded with rifle-shots and outlandish oaths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Downfall] Reference

The morning on which her puppies were drowned there had been a battue of rats, some of which were wounded and escaped.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anecdotes of Dogs] Reference

While the noisy battue hunted through the wood, the outlaws lay in their dark hole, listening breathlessly, panting with terror.    From Wordnik.com.  [Invisible Links] Reference

In every sense, the so-called sport of battue-shooting is injurious -- injurious to the sportsman, to the poorer class, to the community.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference