| Since they provided their own weapons, the variety was large, from carbines, fowling pieces, buccaneers, muskets and fuzees. |
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| The rich, dark soil has rewarded you with fine tobacco crops and you've indulged yourself by ordering a fowling piece from the local gunmaker. |
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| Low-intensity agricultural system based on fishing and fowling was replaced by a high-intensity system based on arable crops. |
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| It all began way back years ago when John as a young man with gun and dog went fowling. |
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| During my late teens and early twenties I had a Chesapeake Bay retriever, a fine wild fowling dog. |
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| He was a man of many hobbies which included, hunting, fowling and both track and coursing. |
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| While most carried the highly lethal burp guns slung around their necks, some carried ancient muzzle-loading, fowling pieces. |
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| Fishing and fowling remained characteristic occupations, and ague, or fen fever, was prevalent. |
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| Like fowling, angling was pursued for two purposes, sport and utility. |
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| Ships were one of a long line of things — fowling pieces, cannon, cars, trains — that boys patronizingly compared to girls. |
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| The four cylinders were in good condition and no carbon fowling was found on the valves that could have caused them to seize. |
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| Fishing, hunting, fowling, and trapping provided additional food. |
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| It may have been the richest hunting, fowling and fishing ground in Europe in the Mesolithic period. |
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| The same country has a fowling licence which may be issued to an individual or a company and authorizes the taking of birds, by means of nets or other devices and traps normally prohibited, in lots of 5 000 brace. |
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| The rest of the Fenland was dedicated to pastoral farming, fishing, fowling and the harvesting of reeds or sedge for thatch. |
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| The people of Hirta were crofters and sheep rearers but they lived mainly by fowling, i.e. catching seabirds and harvesting their eggs in the surrounding islands. |
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