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Σελίδα 2
... subject of " PAUL'S PROPHECY FOR THE Derby . " " Bessus , my boys . Keep it dark . 66 Bedford - square . " Having a roaring fame , but few cared to look at him , and now Mr. Payne's 100gs . commenced the sale . He did not 2 THE OMNIBUS .
... subject of " PAUL'S PROPHECY FOR THE Derby . " " Bessus , my boys . Keep it dark . 66 Bedford - square . " Having a roaring fame , but few cared to look at him , and now Mr. Payne's 100gs . commenced the sale . He did not 2 THE OMNIBUS .
Σελίδα 3
... look at him . He had enough of the family , he said - they had " taken too many goldfinches out of him already . " Mordanto stopped so dead at 30gs . , that Mr. Tattersall asked Mr. Greville if he was to go on , and being requested to ...
... look at him . He had enough of the family , he said - they had " taken too many goldfinches out of him already . " Mordanto stopped so dead at 30gs . , that Mr. Tattersall asked Mr. Greville if he was to go on , and being requested to ...
Σελίδα 5
... look Leger - like , even in this day of small things . Sedbury's victory in the Vase is one of that long list of utter flukes which racing men trea- sure up . " The little black rabbit " had a turn in , and having once imbibed the ...
... look Leger - like , even in this day of small things . Sedbury's victory in the Vase is one of that long list of utter flukes which racing men trea- sure up . " The little black rabbit " had a turn in , and having once imbibed the ...
Σελίδα 6
... look at it . There was more to see on the hill afterwards , when the two - year - olds saddled . North Lincoln had a per- fect Waterloo - square round him , and two groups in it especially struck There was the " civil and religious ...
... look at it . There was more to see on the hill afterwards , when the two - year - olds saddled . North Lincoln had a per- fect Waterloo - square round him , and two groups in it especially struck There was the " civil and religious ...
Σελίδα 7
... looks soft , Brother to Chanoinesse was as tucked up as a weazel , and we did not care to look twice at Lord of the Manor . Mazzini reminds us not a little of M. Parr's Mortimer , and will , we think , be useful some day ; and Sharper ...
... looks soft , Brother to Chanoinesse was as tucked up as a weazel , and we did not care to look twice at Lord of the Manor . Mazzini reminds us not a little of M. Parr's Mortimer , and will , we think , be useful some day ; and Sharper ...
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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...