Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... fair , " he exclaimed ; your whiskers - take them . " 66 you've claimed " I believe a man has a right to do as he pleases with his own property , " remarked his friend , and walked out , leaving the poor man washing his face . In a ...
... fair , " he exclaimed ; your whiskers - take them . " 66 you've claimed " I believe a man has a right to do as he pleases with his own property , " remarked his friend , and walked out , leaving the poor man washing his face . In a ...
Էջ 18
... fair sex , a large number of whom , it would appear , did not resent their attentions . It is all very well to speak of Platonic respect being the highest tribute which can be paid to the fair sex . Moralists may like to fancy such ...
... fair sex , a large number of whom , it would appear , did not resent their attentions . It is all very well to speak of Platonic respect being the highest tribute which can be paid to the fair sex . Moralists may like to fancy such ...
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... fair shooting to be had within reach of the metropolis , and eighty or ninety years ago game was to be found in places which now form part of the town itself . Men alive not so many years ago remembered going snipe shooting on the site ...
... fair shooting to be had within reach of the metropolis , and eighty or ninety years ago game was to be found in places which now form part of the town itself . Men alive not so many years ago remembered going snipe shooting on the site ...
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... fair sportsman required . " Certainly very extraordinary shots were sometimes made by these single - barrel guns . In October , 1819 , for instance , a Northamptonshire gentleman with one shot killed six partridges out of a covey of ...
... fair sportsman required . " Certainly very extraordinary shots were sometimes made by these single - barrel guns . In October , 1819 , for instance , a Northamptonshire gentleman with one shot killed six partridges out of a covey of ...
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... fair play . Another genuine sporting character was old Rose , who for many years kept the public - house known by the sign of the " Jolly Anglers , " at Kentish Town . Rose , in his youthful days , had been a keeper , and still ...
... fair play . Another genuine sporting character was old Rose , who for many years kept the public - house known by the sign of the " Jolly Anglers , " at Kentish Town . Rose , in his youthful days , had been a keeper , and still ...
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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...