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Σελίδα 12
... killed , or transported . They are making great exertions to get foxes again , but it is said that eight cubs have been worried . Hunting , owing to the scarcity , ceased late in February , and they did not renew it when the frost broke ...
... killed , or transported . They are making great exertions to get foxes again , but it is said that eight cubs have been worried . Hunting , owing to the scarcity , ceased late in February , and they did not renew it when the frost broke ...
Σελίδα 13
... killed thirteen brace of old , and nine and a - half of cubs , and drove seven brace to ground . They had only 43 couple of hounds in the kennels for the four days , but this year they have put forward ten couple of their own breeding ...
... killed thirteen brace of old , and nine and a - half of cubs , and drove seven brace to ground . They had only 43 couple of hounds in the kennels for the four days , but this year they have put forward ten couple of their own breeding ...
Σελίδα 24
... killing his victims by sucking the veins , take his departure for another drain , but remains in the burrow . Nor will this merciless destroyer leave the spot in which he has ensconced himself - literally living in his own larder , and ...
... killing his victims by sucking the veins , take his departure for another drain , but remains in the burrow . Nor will this merciless destroyer leave the spot in which he has ensconced himself - literally living in his own larder , and ...
Σελίδα 25
... killed , and adds another specimen to the museum of the keeper at the gable end of his dog - kennel , or some similar out - house , to attract the gaze of the passers - by , if not to warn the vermin fraternity of their inevitable fate ...
... killed , and adds another specimen to the museum of the keeper at the gable end of his dog - kennel , or some similar out - house , to attract the gaze of the passers - by , if not to warn the vermin fraternity of their inevitable fate ...
Σελίδα 52
... killed no less than five royal stags and one hind , besides taking two young male deer , which were of course liberated . Some of these afforded first - rate runs , whilst the want of daylight saved many other gallant harts 52 KNAPSACK ...
... killed no less than five royal stags and one hind , besides taking two young male deer , which were of course liberated . Some of these afforded first - rate runs , whilst the want of daylight saved many other gallant harts 52 KNAPSACK ...
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20 added 25 added 50 added 50 sovs aged Aldcroft bad third Baron Rothschild's Bay Middleton Beadsman beat Birdcatcher birds Bray Bullock Capt Challoner Chanticleer Charlton Clifden's Cliff's colt Cotherstone Count Batthyany's Cresswell Custance Dawson's Deer Derby Ducker East Langton Edwards Ethon Exmoor extra Faugh-a-Ballagh fillies fish Flatman Flying Dutchman Fordham gorse Grimshaw half a length HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Harry Stanley head heats horse hounds hunting jockeys Lady Lord mare Mellish's Merry's Mert's neck never Newmarket Night Ranger Orlando Osborne Osborne's paid 5 sovs Parr's PLATE of 50 Plumb Pritchard QUEEN'S PLATE race salmon saved his stake Saxon's season second and third second received second saved Snowden sport sportsman subs Teddington Thompson's three lengths three years old trout Waterford's Williams's winner paid winner was sold Won by half Won by three-quarters Won easily yachts
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Σελίδα 58 - ... a custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black stinking fume thereof, nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.
Σελίδα 190 - Should I turn upon the true prince ? Why, thou knowest, I am as valiant as Hercules: but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter ; I was a coward on instinct.
Σελίδα 326 - tis sweet to view on high The rainbow, based on ocean, span the sky. 'Tis sweet to hear the watchdog's honest bark Bay deep-mouthed welcome as we draw near home; Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark Our coming, and look brighter when we come...
Σελίδα 240 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.
Σελίδα 281 - The scattering lead pursues the certain sight, And death in thunder overtakes their flight.
Σελίδα 243 - Her young forsake her downy plumes To rest upon thy opening blooms. Flower of the desert though thou art! The deer that range the mountain free, The graceful doe, the stately hart, Their food and shelter seek from thee; The bee thy earliest blossom greets, And draws from thee her choicest sweets.
Σελίδα 279 - ... near which place the young ones lay concealed in the grass, which the old bird no sooner perceived than she flew back again to us, settled just before the dog's nose again, and by rolling and tumbling about, drew off his attention from her young, and thus preserved her brood a second time.
Σελίδα 48 - But we their sons, a pamper'd race of men, Are dwindled down to threescore years and ten. Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend : God never made His work for man to mend.
Σελίδα 300 - I presumed, expounding the law and the prophets ; until, on drawing a little nearer, I found he was only expatiating on the merits of a brown horse.
Σελίδα 278 - I was hunting a young pointer, the dog ran on a brood of very small partridges ; the old bird cried, fluttered, and ran tumbling along just before the dog's nose till she had drawn him to a considerable distance, when she took wing and flew still...