Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... hour and the state of the weather . Occasionally , as they slumbered away a portion of the night in their watch - boxes , dashing bucks , elevated by a festive evening , would let them quietly down , when , like a tortoise under his ...
... hour and the state of the weather . Occasionally , as they slumbered away a portion of the night in their watch - boxes , dashing bucks , elevated by a festive evening , would let them quietly down , when , like a tortoise under his ...
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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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... hour and the state of the weather . Occasionally , as they slumbered away a portion of the night in their watch - boxes , dashing bucks , elevated by a festive evening , would let them quietly down , when , like a tortoise under his ...
... hour and the state of the weather . Occasionally , as they slumbered away a portion of the night in their watch - boxes , dashing bucks , elevated by a festive evening , would let them quietly down , when , like a tortoise under his ...
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... hours . " " Hang your gig ! " said the old man . " I hate the very sight of them . " Oh , " replied the young one , " mine is the quietest horse in England . A lighted cracker tied to his tail would not alarm him . " 66 of On hearing ...
... hours . " " Hang your gig ! " said the old man . " I hate the very sight of them . " Oh , " replied the young one , " mine is the quietest horse in England . A lighted cracker tied to his tail would not alarm him . " 66 of On hearing ...
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... hour - glass ; and long after the hoary frost of age had silvered his locks , the sight of a fine woman appeared to give him new life . In old age , when the weather was fine and sunny , the old man would come out on to his balcony in ...
... hour - glass ; and long after the hoary frost of age had silvered his locks , the sight of a fine woman appeared to give him new life . In old age , when the weather was fine and sunny , the old man would come out on to his balcony in ...
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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...