The venery was a little further off, drawing toward the park. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VII (of X)—Continental Europe I] Reference
How birds are affected in this kind, appears out of Aristotle, he will have them to sing ob futuram venerem for joy or in hope of their venery which is to come. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
Fifthly, By the too frequent reiteration of the act of venery. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
In Abdera, Nicodemus was seized with fever from venery and drinking. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
He was, in the full force of the term, what is called in venery a knowing dog. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
One indulges in wine, another the die consumes, a third is decomposed by venery. From Wordnik.com. [Anatomy of Melancholy] Reference
And therefore the book of venery, of hawking, and hunting, is called the book of Sir Tristram. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table] Reference
You say that you feel in you the pricking stings of sensuality, by which you are stirred up to venery. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
The Prince is not minded to have light women slaughtered on altars instead of paying his venery taxes. From Wordnik.com. [The Oathbound]
The venery, where the beagles and hounds were kept, was a little farther off, drawing towards the park. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
The King held a high Court, and bade his great vassals and barons, and all the lords of his venery to the feast. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
They wonder why I came not to revile venery and vice; and verily, I came not to warn against pickpockets either!. From Wordnik.com. [Thus spake Zarathustra; A book for all and none] Reference
Bayle rejects the history for a curious reason, venery being colder in summer than in winter, and quotes the proverb. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Moreover, the principle is, that in order to get the best of a wild boar, one must employ the science of venery and plenty of dogs. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
He was cunning and fair as Tristan, and so wise in venery, that the oldest forester might not gainsay him in aught concerning the shaw. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dullness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Don't Take It All Too Seriously] Reference
Thanks to the admirable system which he has introduced into French venery, he was able to turn his thoughts exclusively to the science and strategy of it. From Wordnik.com. [Modeste Mignon] Reference
Hereby you may perceive, although my future wife were as unsatiable and gluttonous in her voluptuousness and the delights of venery as ever was the Empress. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
In Meliboea, a young man having become heated by drinking and much venery, was confined to bed; he was affected with rigors and nausea; insomnolency and absence of thirst. From Wordnik.com. [Of The Epidemics] Reference
By the too frequent reiteration of the act of venery. From Wordnik.com. [Aphrodisiacs and Anti-aphrodisiacs: Three Essays on the Powers of Reproduction] Reference
Sorrel may be a colour name, but it was applied in venery to. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
This conduct of venery is an ideal that is only approximated. From Wordnik.com. [The Leopard Woman] Reference
Now and then his old friend and instructor in the noble art of venery, Lord. From Wordnik.com. [Life of George Washington — Volume 01] Reference
I am naturally addicted to venery, I have little ambition and am not at all avaricious. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
And very carefully the Queen's Highness observeth the laws of the chase, of venery and hawking. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
He quotes Riolan's statement that it is certain that the voice of those who indulge in venery is changed. From Wordnik.com. [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy] Reference
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence?. From Wordnik.com. [Crome Yellow] Reference
It's all rather pretty really, and I wonder what would it take for newish "terms of the venery" to come about. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Tassell is a corruption of tiercel, a name given to the male peregrine, so termed, according to the legendary lore of venery. From Wordnik.com. [The Romance of Names] Reference
Rarely use venery but for health or offspring, never to dulness, weakness, or the injury of your own or another's peace or reputation. From Wordnik.com. [The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin] Reference
The causes that are observed every day, such tight lacing, excessive venery, fright, and emotions, are too well known to be discussed here. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
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