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