fowler's

I was to be trained under his eye for poetry, as I'd been trained for farming, works and days; I would have as much song left in me as a bird in the fowler's net; and my muteness would be taken for defiance.

The Praise Singer Renault, Mary 1978

She arrived, poor thing, with weary wing, like some bird, who, escaping from the fowler's net, where it has left its feathers, flies straight to the spot where a sportsman lies ready to shoot it.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

The World English Bible (WEB): Anonymous

And then as though some fowler's shaft had pierced it

Robert Louis Stevenson Margaret Moyes Black

A fowler's snare is on all of his paths, and hostility in the house of his God.

The World English Bible (WEB): Hosea Anonymous

When the time is nearly up the fowler's wife persuades him to alter his bargain with the

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

Walter gave us an awful description of the danger of the fowler's occupation, especially in the Foula Island, where the rocks rose towering a thousand feet above the sea.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

It would seem that to _draw_ into an ambush, the _drawing_ of a fowler's net, and the more sublimated

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various

The Devil consents, and comes the last day and recognizes easily every bird, until finally the fowler's wife, disguised with tar and feathers, comes out of a case and frightens the fowler and the Devil so that he runs away.

Italian Popular Tales Thomas Frederick Crane

Her innocent and conscious cheek acknowledged instantly her quick perception, and with maiden modesty she turned aside -- not angrily, but timorous as a bird, upon whose leafy covert the heavy fowler's foot has trod too harshly and too suddenly.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various