Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... close proximity to them . Such places were also well used by people who went to read the newspapers , which then often contained a number of quaint announcements characteristic of the age . The following , for instance , appeared in a ...
... close proximity to them . Such places were also well used by people who went to read the newspapers , which then often contained a number of quaint announcements characteristic of the age . The following , for instance , appeared in a ...
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... close up to the town , were on every Sunday full of idle fellows out after small birds , and such gunners endangered people's lives , being brutally careless , as a rule . For instance , three men shooting larks in Battersea Fields ...
... close up to the town , were on every Sunday full of idle fellows out after small birds , and such gunners endangered people's lives , being brutally careless , as a rule . For instance , three men shooting larks in Battersea Fields ...
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... close to Tottenham . One first of September Mr. Holt walked out of the back door of his house there , and came home to breakfast at nine o'clock with seven brace of birds . After lying down for two hours , he started off again , and ...
... close to Tottenham . One first of September Mr. Holt walked out of the back door of his house there , and came home to breakfast at nine o'clock with seven brace of birds . After lying down for two hours , he started off again , and ...
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... close of the eighteenth century a meet of Mr. Chapman's hounds on Sutton Common was enlivened by the appearance of an elderly individual who , equipped in a cauliflower wig , cocked hat , black breeches and boots , rode up and enquired ...
... close of the eighteenth century a meet of Mr. Chapman's hounds on Sutton Common was enlivened by the appearance of an elderly individual who , equipped in a cauliflower wig , cocked hat , black breeches and boots , rode up and enquired ...
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... close in with the hounds , to the great terror of the latter , who , Gilpin - like , held fast by the mane and pommel , and , after having escaped many dangers in a chase of an hour and a half , was at last completely thrown out , and ...
... close in with the hounds , to the great terror of the latter , who , Gilpin - like , held fast by the mane and pommel , and , after having escaped many dangers in a chase of an hour and a half , was at last completely thrown out , and ...
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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...