"Battel" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shooting, and fishing, and in both I have had tolerable sport. But as few except emigrants, follow the european method of shooting, I cannot purchase a pointer for any sum: pray send me one by an early fall ship, and if possible smuggle me half a dozen pounds of Battel powder; for since you have begun to cut one another's throats in Europe, I find it impossible to procure any but dutch, and that unglazed, at the moderate price of two ...
— Travels in the United States of America • William Priest
... the Game, or Battel, the best season is from the Moon's Encrease in February, to her Encrease in March. The March Bird is best. And now first get a perfect Cock, to a perfect Hen, as the best Breeding, and see the ...
— The School of Recreation (1684 edition) • Robert Howlett |
