Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... occasion at sea . He was a witness in the case , and having already declared upon oath that the stench of the works was intolerable , he was required to say what this intolerable smell resembled . It is not always easy to hit upon a ...
... occasion at sea . He was a witness in the case , and having already declared upon oath that the stench of the works was intolerable , he was required to say what this intolerable smell resembled . It is not always easy to hit upon a ...
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... 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 portraits with a pistol . He smashed a very valuable French clock on the ...
... 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 portraits with a pistol . He smashed a very valuable French clock on the ...
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... occasion two of these men , more daring than their brethren , having undertaken to serve a writ on a popular landed proprietor ( for there were popular landlords in those days ) , the inhabitants of the districts assembled from all ...
... occasion two of these men , more daring than their brethren , having undertaken to serve a writ on a popular landed proprietor ( for there were popular landlords in those days ) , the inhabitants of the districts assembled from all ...
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... occasion of an accident to the Rev. C. Colton , whose double - barrel had burst with disastrous results , a great sporting authority wrote : " Gentlemen cannot be too often warned that , while they increase , by the use of the double ...
... occasion of an accident to the Rev. C. Colton , whose double - barrel had burst with disastrous results , a great sporting authority wrote : " Gentlemen cannot be too often warned that , while they increase , by the use of the double ...
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... occasion a wealthy and well - known London brewer thought proper to join a pack of foxhounds , and appeared with the then unfamiliar moustache . He was well mounted , and dressed in a very con- spicuous manner , in consequence of which ...
... occasion a wealthy and well - known London brewer thought proper to join a pack of foxhounds , and appeared with the then unfamiliar moustache . He was well mounted , and dressed in a very con- spicuous manner , in consequence of which ...
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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...