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Meanings of sallying in English
Feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air.
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Synonyms
Examples for "hawking"
Examples for "hawking"
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He liked hunting and hawking better than the cold practicalities of rule.
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And they wouldn't want me hawking that information on the open market.'
4
He tapped the forward control designs, and the hawking mat sped faster.
5
She even said you'd been flying a hawking mat that went down.
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The flashing alertness of a fly-catching lizard, is it not proverbial?
2
I was also sick of its fly-catching abilities and the cloying scent of watermelon.
3
Then Bunch, grave as a judge, began to repeat: 'Plate-snatching, gravy-spilling, door-slamming, blue-bottle- fly-catching, and curtsey-bobbing.
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The kitchen was alive with flies, at least half of them still struggling on the long sticky fly-catching paper that hung around the room.
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I found a singular moth- and fly-catching, plant in this range; it exudes a gummy substance, by which insects become attached to the leaves.
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Another familiar bird here, which I never met with in the North, is the gnatcatcher, called by Audubon the blue-gray flycatching warbler.
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They may be a development of a flycatching plant, or they may be a link between the animal and the vegetable kingdom.
Usage of sallying in English
1
The sallying schools of the Southern seas make their course to go.
2
Twenty times I was on the point of sallying forth after her.
3
Upon Lionel sallying out he found the utmost confusion and disorder reigning.
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The hounds were already sallying hither and thither, anxious and evidently expectant.
5
What do you say, father, to our sallying out and pursuing them?
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And in the washroom they took a few hasty puffs before sallying forth again.
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At length Barry proposed sallying out and endeavouring to put the enemy to flight.
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One hope, however, the commandant had, and that was of sallying forth, and escaping.
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Then, sallying forth, they fired a volley, which drove the blacks to a distance.
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This was no small detachment sallying forth for plunder or in pursuit of the Tatars.
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Upon sallying out, Roger found that the streets were as crowded as when he entered.
12
The enemy fell back, but not unmolested, as, sallying out, we pressed hotly upon them.
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Back in America, he was sallying into the search for amusement with the same consistent absorption.
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On sallying out, Ryan had no difficulty in learning that the Mayo Fusiliers were at Portalegre.
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Returning, the sallying party found the cavalry-the11th Bengal Lancers-checkedby a sungar full of tribesmen.
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But who's going to do the sallying business?
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