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How to use Jesses in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word Jesses? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Jesses are the short straps of Leather that are fastned to her Legs, and so to the Lease by the Varvils.
Ajan is away almost before I have opened my hand to free her jesses from my fingers.
She rarely dreamed, but she did that night, fretful visions of tight-held jesses and the clipping of wings.
It has leather jesses on its legs, which are used by falconers and people who take the birds out to hunt.
He needs no jesses, as he will not accept it and does not need training.
To the jesses, it is said, are attached the varvels, sometimes written vervels, or rings.
Examples from Classical Literature
Friends o jesses that we aint able to lay hands on yit pizened that there meat.
The jesses were of crimson and yellow silk, its legs fancifully adorned with little bells fastened by rings of leather.
Dr. Hedge's clear and chiselled statements cut all the jesses of our thoughts, and they rise unhooded into his still air.
The one that held the falcon was covered with an embroidered leather glove, but the other was bare, holding a set of jesses.
The falconer of war had unhooded his new brood of hawks and they mounted up, free of bells and jesses.
The huntsmen paid the money, took the hawk, and the old man took off its jesses.
We perceive there only the jesses, or leathern strings with tassels at the ends, which serve to retain the bird.
Having seen the cormorants, they begin tugging excitedly at their jesses.
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