badger-baiting

It will go the way of badger-baiting and mead as a way of kids getting their rocks off.

Fuel Prices Hit Teen Drug Users Push Jelly 2008

It will go the way of badger-baiting and mead as a way of kids getting their rocks off.

Archive 2008-07-01 Push Jelly 2008

Weller, and Mrs. Gamp, and all the Pickwickians, and Mr. Dowler, and John Browdie — these and their immortal companions were reared, so to speak, on the beef and beer of that naughty, fox-hunting, badger-baiting old England, which we have improved out of existence.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

When I talks of dog-fighting, I of course means rat-catching, and badger-baiting, ay, and bull-baiting too, just as when I speaks religiously, when I says one I means not one but three.

Lavengro 2004

Lumpy closed the entertainment by announcing that the next evening would be a mixture of cockfighting and badger-baiting.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

Otter-hunting and badger-baiting filled in the time, so that Brown had never been so well amused in his life.

Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett

The English, for instance, exclaim against the barbarity of the bull-fight, as compared with the noble sport of cock-fighting, badger-baiting, &c.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 352, January 17, 1829 Various

An otter-hunt the next day, and a badger-baiting the day after, consumed the time merrily.

Chapter XXVI 1917

The Brocas was a meadow sacred to badger-baiting and cat-hunts.

Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902

Mr. Dowler, and John Browdie -- these and their immortal companions were reared, so to speak, on the beef and beer of that naughty, fox-hunting, badger-baiting old England, which we have improved out of existence.

Letters to Dead Authors Andrew Lang 1878