...once, then what shift, with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them : and when he was loose, to...shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the saliva about his face, was a matter of a goodly relief. . . . An Italian Acrobat. In the meantime was...

...her delectation. " It was a sport very pleasant of these beasts," he says, " to see the bear . . . when he was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver about his fiznamy, was a matter of a goodly relief." Metaphors from this source passed into the popular...

...pleasant to see the bear, his pink eyes learing after his enemies, approach; the nimbleness and wit of the dog to take his advantage; and the force and...shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and slaver hanging about his lihysiognomy. Ban-dogs seem to have been included in the pretty extensive...

...very pleasant to see the bear, with his pink eyes leering after his enemies' approach ; the nimbleness and wait of the dog to take his advantage, and the...blood and the slaver hanging about his physiognomy." These barbarities continued until a comparatively recent period, but are now, it is to be hoped, exploded...

...once, then what shift, with biting, with clawing, with roaring, tossing and tumbling he would work to wind himself from them: and when he was loose to shake...ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver about his physiognomy was a matter of goodly relief. Bearbaiting had survived from medieval times and...

...loose on thirteen bears. As one of those present remarked it was 'very pleasant to see the bear . . . shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver about his physiognomy as a matter of goodly relief. Victorians might well have contrasted such cruelties...

...taken at once, then by what shift with biting, with clawing, with roaring, with tossing, and trembling, he would work and wind himself from them; and when...was loose, to shake his ears twice or thrice with blood and slaver hanging about his physiognomy.42 The royal family had its own private bear gardens...

...to a group of thirteen bears. It was 'a sport very pleasant,' says Laneham, 'to see the bear . . . shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood; and the slaver about his physiognomy was a matter of a goodly relief.' In addition to these stylized and highly formal...

...younger time, entertained by bear-baiting at a castle in the Shakespeare Country, she watched the bear "shake his ears twice or thrice with the blood and the slaver." This was "matter of a goodly relief." Mostly, her cruelties were politic. When an incautious pamphleteer...

...taken once, then what shift with biting, clawing, with roaring, tossing and tumbling, he would work to wind himself from them ; and when he was loose, to shake his 001-3 twice or thrice, with the blood and the slaver about his visonomy, was a matter of goodly relief."...