Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... hackney coaches , with a pair of horses that never exceeded five miles an hour . There were no omnibuses or hansom cabs , the first of the former having been introduced in 1828 by Shillibeer . One hundred years ago B I UNIV. OF ...
... hackney coaches , with a pair of horses that never exceeded five miles an hour . There were no omnibuses or hansom cabs , the first of the former having been introduced in 1828 by Shillibeer . One hundred years ago B I UNIV. OF ...
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... horse between the shafts , proceeded forthwith to Smitham Bottom at about the pace of an express train . This unceremonious proceeding , far from leading to trouble , originated a warm friendship between the eccentric squire and the ...
... horse between the shafts , proceeded forthwith to Smitham Bottom at about the pace of an express train . This unceremonious proceeding , far from leading to trouble , originated a warm friendship between the eccentric squire and the ...
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... horse , and hunted the terrified divine with blood- hounds . On another occasion he put a donkey into the bed of a stranger at an inn . He took a hunting- box in the shires , and amused himself with shooting out the eyes of the family ...
... horse , and hunted the terrified divine with blood- hounds . On another occasion he put a donkey into the bed of a stranger at an inn . He took a hunting- box in the shires , and amused himself with shooting out the eyes of the family ...
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... horse three times at a fence , it eventually fell and rolled over him . A favourite joke of Mytton's and other wild sparks was to take timid people out in a gig and then wilfully overturn it . Gigs indeed were held accountable for ...
... horse three times at a fence , it eventually fell and rolled over him . A favourite joke of Mytton's and other wild sparks was to take timid people out in a gig and then wilfully overturn it . Gigs indeed were held accountable for ...
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... horse beats you by chalks , for he has never before been in one at all . " It is needless to add that the old gentleman began to claw ( as it was called on the road ) , and was out of the gig in the twinkling of his eye . A volume might ...
... horse beats you by chalks , for he has never before been in one at all . " It is needless to add that the old gentleman began to claw ( as it was called on the road ) , and was out of the gig in the twinkling of his eye . A volume might ...
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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...