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I see a hedge; I see wild rose, honeysuckle, black briony—herbe aux femmes battues, the French poetically call it—blackberry, hawthorn, and elder.

From The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies by Besant, Walter, Sir

We didn't linger very long at table, as the days were shortening fast, and we wanted to follow some of the battues.

From Chateau and Country Life in France by Waddington, Mary Alsop King

In these battues, those who have fire-arms form two sides of a triangle, and are placed with their backs to the wind, along the roads which border the wood the traqueurs are about to beat.

From Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches by Jesse, William

At one of the battues at Holkham, Chantrey killed two woodcocks at one shot.

From Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Somerville, Mary

I have, however, little doubt that Rooks during the whole of their lives associate the memory of these battues with the appearance of a man armed with a gun.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Johns, Rev. C. A.