Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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... the rest a tailor's bill for £ 20 . Any person finding the same will please to pay the bill , and nothing more will be said . " A cynical individual being once asked by a friend whether 23 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... the rest a tailor's bill for £ 20 . Any person finding the same will please to pay the bill , and nothing more will be said . " A cynical individual being once asked by a friend whether 23 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
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... to sweep out the bar , and he gave so much satisfaction that he was occupied in various ways by persons who frequented the house . Amongst these was a lawyer's clerk , who , observing 25 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... to sweep out the bar , and he gave so much satisfaction that he was occupied in various ways by persons who frequented the house . Amongst these was a lawyer's clerk , who , observing 25 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
Էջ 42
... persons alive in the middle of the last century remembered travelling from Hadley Church through the Chase , Epping and Hainault Forests , to Wanstead , without ever leaving the green turf or losing sight of forest land . Remains of the ...
... persons alive in the middle of the last century remembered travelling from Hadley Church through the Chase , Epping and Hainault Forests , to Wanstead , without ever leaving the green turf or losing sight of forest land . Remains of the ...
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... person , was considered by all as a very upright man , and remarkable for holding his gun straight . These two ... person's manor , who marched up to the little man 43 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... person , was considered by all as a very upright man , and remarkable for holding his gun straight . These two ... person's manor , who marched up to the little man 43 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
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... person who I am . " " What do you say , my Lord ? " replied the old man . Immediately the lord of the manor pulled off his hat , and after begging the other lord's pardon , hoped his lordship would amuse himself as long as he thought ...
... person who I am . " " What do you say , my Lord ? " replied the old man . Immediately the lord of the manor pulled off his hat , and after begging the other lord's pardon , hoped his lordship would amuse himself as long as he thought ...
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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...