baitings

Speaker Pelosi, John Conyers, Carl Levin and their supporters are now close to repeating this destructive exercise with hearings intended to be little more than bear-baitings of the defeated Bush Administration.

Pelosi's Self-Torture 2009

For example, in the "Olden Days," people used to go to bear-baitings.

The Weird World of Bike Advocacy: Mourning Becomes Electrolux BikeSnobNYC 2009

He loved the rough exercises of wrestling, boxing, leaping, and quarterstaff, and frequented, when he could obtain leisure, the bull-baitings and foot-ball matches, by which the burgh was sometimes enlivened.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

So were bear baitings and witch burnings in the Dark Ages.

Mail Call: A Double Disaster? 2007

Not necessarily a very nice audience - the kind that would have gone to cockfights and bear baitings.

I find my place in nature, and some nice EMT stories. Elizabeth McClung 2007

We had bull-baitings, and badger-drawings, and hustings, and prize-fights, and cock-fights; we went to see men hanged; the pillory and the stocks were no empty “terrors unto evil-doers,” for there was commonly a malefactor occupying each of these institutions.

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

I've seen through their baitings -- have remained imperturbably serene and swallowed their studied insults.

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

Out upon him! prig, for my life, prig: he haunts wakes, fairs and bear-baitings.

The Winter’s Tale 2004

He did not really think that Lord Henry would take a boy not yet thirteen to a whorehouse, but he suspected that Lord Henry would know where all the cock-fights, dog-fights, bear-baitings, and less-than-pure masques would be shown.

This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

Clerkenwell, a place of public diversion, was famous for its bear and bull baitings.

The Journal to Stella 2003