She looked upon venery as the natural occupation for men and women, and was ever ready with precept and example from her own wide experience.

They wonder why I came not to revile venery and vice; and verily, I came not to warn against pickpockets either!

During this time, deer and pheasants were left to the free enjoyment of their nature, hunted so lazily that, it was said, the art of venery ran great risk of degenerating at the court of France.

Wyeth was immediately for pursuing them, rifle in hand, but saw evident signs of dissatisfaction in his half-breed hunters; who considered him as trenching upon their province, and meddling with things quite above his capacity; for these veterans of the wilderness are exceedingly pragmatical, on points of venery and woodcraft, and tenacious of their superiority; looking down with infinite contempt upon all raw beginners.

I know no one but myself who is acquainted with the noble art of venery . After me it will all be over, and people will hunt with gins, snares, and traps.

Close behind the pack rode a fourrier and a yeoman-pricker, whooping on the laggards and encouraging the leaders, in the shrill half-French jargon which was the language of venery and woodcraft.

Most of the terms of venery , an antiquated word for both hunting and sexual conquest, come from Saint Albans's list.

Abusch sees the lore of venery in the killing of Huwawa, guardian of the Cedar Forest (Tablet V), as well as in Gilgamesh's activities during his wanderings in the steppe following the death of Enkidu (Tablet IX).

Dula continues to attempt to arouse Evadne with erotic language, claiming 'A dozen wanton words put in your head / will make you livelier in your husband's bed' (20-1), echoing Ambroise Pare's suggestion that erotic language might cause a woman to 'take fire and bee enflamed to venery '.

The use of scenthounds to track prey dates back to Assyrian, Babylonian and ancient Egyptian times, and was known as venery .

This statement makes sense, given the complexity of Thater's subject matter: the networked entanglements between human and other, species and habitat, viewer and viewing space, zebra and zeal (the last a term of venery for a group of zebras).