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... better than Bay Hampton , figures at abont 40 to 1 in the odds ; while Seth , who was run to a head by the said Bay Hampton , stands equal , in the estima- mation of the betting gentry , with Amato ; and Grey Momus , stated to be two ...
... better than Bay Hampton , figures at abont 40 to 1 in the odds ; while Seth , who was run to a head by the said Bay Hampton , stands equal , in the estima- mation of the betting gentry , with Amato ; and Grey Momus , stated to be two ...
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... better , nor the following , nor the one after ; and the oftener they went , the wilder and worse the hounds became . Sometimes by dint of mobbing they managed to killa fox , but hares much more frequently fell a prey to the renowned ...
... better , nor the following , nor the one after ; and the oftener they went , the wilder and worse the hounds became . Sometimes by dint of mobbing they managed to killa fox , but hares much more frequently fell a prey to the renowned ...
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... better sport , is intitled in India to take precedence of the lion . After these magnates come the leopard , the bear , hyena , and the wild hog . The jackal and the fox may be bracketed , as they are both hunted with hounds . Among the ...
... better sport , is intitled in India to take precedence of the lion . After these magnates come the leopard , the bear , hyena , and the wild hog . The jackal and the fox may be bracketed , as they are both hunted with hounds . Among the ...
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... better known as The Whisperer , migrated in his youth from Kilmallock , in the County of Limerick , where his progenitors had dwelt since the days of the Geraldine , to the Duhallow country , where he was almost exclusively employed by ...
... better known as The Whisperer , migrated in his youth from Kilmallock , in the County of Limerick , where his progenitors had dwelt since the days of the Geraldine , to the Duhallow country , where he was almost exclusively employed by ...
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... better sport followed than when we went a totting ; but I must say that without the et ceteras totting is rather cold , dreary work , and , until the biting begins , decidedly slow . The present is about the best time for setting eel ...
... better sport followed than when we went a totting ; but I must say that without the et ceteras totting is rather cold , dreary work , and , until the biting begins , decidedly slow . The present is about the best time for setting eel ...
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20 added 25 added 25 sovs 50 added 50 sovs Actæon agst allowed 3lb Anne Boleyn Bentinck's betting bowled by ditto Brutandorf Camel Capt Captain Doleful carry 3lb Club Colonel course Derby distance Doncaster Duke of Portland's Duke of Richmond's Emilius extra fillies five Fulwar Craven's Gardnor's gentlemen GOLD CUP Greville's Grey Momus half-bred HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Handley-cross heats hounds hunting Jorrocks Lady Langar Leger LEGER STAKES Lord Chesterfield's Lord Eglinton's Lord Exeter's ch Lord G Lord Lichfield's Lord Suffield's mare Mervan mile Momus Muley Newmarket Nimrod old colts once round owner Peel's placed PLATE of 501 Priam Queen's Plate race Rowton second horse recd second horse received Sister six and aged sold for 200 sport STAKES of 25 Stanley's started subs SWEEPSTAKES SWEEPSTAKES of 50 Thornhill's three yr THURSDAY Vale of Belvoir Velocipede WEDNESDAY werry
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Page 253 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 366 - The weird sisters, hand in hand, Posters of the sea and land, Thus do go about, about: Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine, And thrice again, to make up nine.
Page 251 - In general, the ball came from his hand, as if from a racket, in a straight horizontal line ; so that it was in vain to attempt to overtake or stop it. As it was said of a great orator that he never was at a loss for a word, and for the properest word, so Cavanagh always could tell the degree of force necessary to be given to a ball, and the precise direction in which it should be sent.
Page 247 - Although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night. It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden ; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be, Ere one can say — It lightens.* Sweet, good night!
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Page 253 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 296 - Ay ! mark his action well ! Behind he is, but what repose ! How steadily and clean he goes ! What latent speed his limbs disclose ! What power in every stride he shows ! They see, they feel, from man to man The shivering thrill of terror ran, And every soul instinctive knew It lay between the mighty two. The world without, the sky above, Have glided from their straining...
Page 251 - He was the best up-hill player in the world ; even when his adversary was fourteen, he would play on the same or better, and as he never flung away the game through carelessness and conceit, he never gave it up through laziness or want of heart.
Page 252 - Circus' genial laws, And the imperial pleasure. — Wherefore not? What matters where we fall to fill the maws Of worms — on battle-plains or listed spot ? Both are but theatres where the chief actors rot.
Page 295 - A hundred yards have glided by, And they settle to the race, More keen becomes each straining eye, More terrible the pace. Unbroken yet o'er the gravel road Like maddening waves the troop has flowed, But the speed begins to tell ; And Yorkshire sees, with eye of fear, The Southron stealing from the rear. Ay...