Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... Common , those living in the neighbourhood objected to the offensive smells which the works in question produced , and a lawsuit began as to whether they constituted a nuisance . During the hearing of this case an amusing incident ...
... Common , those living in the neighbourhood objected to the offensive smells which the works in question produced , and a lawsuit began as to whether they constituted a nuisance . During the hearing of this case an amusing incident ...
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... Common , took another sportsman's cabri- olet which was waiting outside this hotel whilst its owner had gone in to talk to Sir Godfrey Webster . Mytton , who had at first contemplated seizing Sir Godfrey's chariot and four , also ...
... Common , took another sportsman's cabri- olet which was waiting outside this hotel whilst its owner had gone in to talk to Sir Godfrey Webster . Mytton , who had at first contemplated seizing Sir Godfrey's chariot and four , also ...
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... common practice to ride to Brighton and back in a day ) , carried everything before him . In his latter years George IV abandoned high- mettled horseflesh , and was content to jog along in a pony chaise . Driving with Lady Conyngham one ...
... common practice to ride to Brighton and back in a day ) , carried everything before him . In his latter years George IV abandoned high- mettled horseflesh , and was content to jog along in a pony chaise . Driving with Lady Conyngham one ...
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... common necessaries of life , and wishing to invite a friend to his house , wrote , asking him to " come and dine at half- past seven , on turtle and venison , as the fishmonger and butcher will stand it no longer . " This individual ...
... common necessaries of life , and wishing to invite a friend to his house , wrote , asking him to " come and dine at half- past seven , on turtle and venison , as the fishmonger and butcher will stand it no longer . " This individual ...
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... common . In a number of cases , however , so wily were the defaulting exiles that stratagem was deemed to afford the best chance of effecting their capture . At a certain period one of the regular topics of the place was the devices ...
... common . In a number of cases , however , so wily were the defaulting exiles that stratagem was deemed to afford the best chance of effecting their capture . At a certain period one of the regular topics of the place was the devices ...
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Էջ 77 - Who sleeps on brambles till he kills his man, Some frolic drunkard, reeling from a feast, Provokes a broil, and stabs you for a jest. Yet ev'n these heroes, mischievously gay, Lords of the street, and terrors of the way, Flush'd as they are with folly, youth, and wine, Their prudent insults to the poor confine; Afar they mark the flambeau's bright approach, And shun the shining train, and golden coach.
Էջ 18 - In town let me live then, in town let me die, For in truth I can't relish the country, not I ! If one must have a villa in summer to dwell, Oh give me the sweet shady side of Pall Mall ! HANNAH MORE.
Էջ 148 - She was a professed enemy to flattery, and was seldom known to praise or commend; But The talents in which she principally excelled Were difference of opinion and discovering flaws and Imperfections.
Էջ 143 - He told me, he had a chaplain that was a very honest man, but a very great blockhead, to whom he had given a living in Suffolk, that was full of that sort of people. He had gone about among them from house to house, though he could not imagine what he could say to them, for he said he was a very silly fellow, but that he ' believed his nonsense suited theirs...