Sporting Days and Sporting WaysDuckworth & Company, 1910 - 317 էջ |
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Էջ 42
... birds . After lying down for two hours , he started off again , and returned with two brace more , making eighteen head ; and this notwithstanding he had been confined to his room for the previous month 42 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... birds . After lying down for two hours , he started off again , and returned with two brace more , making eighteen head ; and this notwithstanding he had been confined to his room for the previous month 42 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
Էջ 43
... bird was the greatest honour . It happened one day that old Rose and my Lord , as he familiarly called his friend , had strayed rather too far upon some person's manor , who marched up to the little man 43 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
... bird was the greatest honour . It happened one day that old Rose and my Lord , as he familiarly called his friend , had strayed rather too far upon some person's manor , who marched up to the little man 43 Sporting Days and Sporting Ways.
Էջ 110
... bird's - eye view of all persons desirous of admit- tance , in order to keep out or let in whom they chose . Sometimes the gaming - house keepers were robbed by their employés — one was swindled by his son . He was a partner in the ...
... bird's - eye view of all persons desirous of admit- tance , in order to keep out or let in whom they chose . Sometimes the gaming - house keepers were robbed by their employés — one was swindled by his son . He was a partner in the ...
Էջ 121
... birds , to which he was extremely partial , were by judicious breeding brought to the finest possible perfection ; and nothing inspired the noble lord with more pleasure and gratification than the English game cock . Indeed , favourite ...
... birds , to which he was extremely partial , were by judicious breeding brought to the finest possible perfection ; and nothing inspired the noble lord with more pleasure and gratification than the English game cock . Indeed , favourite ...
Էջ 128
... birds in twenty - five shots . Mr. Stebbing took a direction north - west , bordering on the Stanley enclosures , then doubling in a direction towards Cambridge , and killed eighteen brace of birds in thirty - one shots . They shot till ...
... birds in twenty - five shots . Mr. Stebbing took a direction north - west , bordering on the Stanley enclosures , then doubling in a direction towards Cambridge , and killed eighteen brace of birds in thirty - one shots . They shot till ...
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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...