The New sporting magazine, Volume 241852 |
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... Colt ' s revolvers , and to bear in mind that a mission commands more of the elements of success which accosts with courtesy , than that which opens its business by a box on the ear . Hector ' s vein is not that most becoming the ...
... Colt ' s revolvers , and to bear in mind that a mission commands more of the elements of success which accosts with courtesy , than that which opens its business by a box on the ear . Hector ' s vein is not that most becoming the ...
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... colt by Phlegon , out of Marinella , and 10 to 1 Ambrose . Thus , when it is stated that Nancy numbered among the throng , it will be observed that she was friendless . Very soon after the flag fell , there ensued a wild goose chase ...
... colt by Phlegon , out of Marinella , and 10 to 1 Ambrose . Thus , when it is stated that Nancy numbered among the throng , it will be observed that she was friendless . Very soon after the flag fell , there ensued a wild goose chase ...
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... colts or fillies may be flyers , and the winner and other leading ones may not be worth a bunch of the carrots they have eaten . But if a man , by proper trials , has proved his colt or filly to be superior , or about equal , to others ...
... colts or fillies may be flyers , and the winner and other leading ones may not be worth a bunch of the carrots they have eaten . But if a man , by proper trials , has proved his colt or filly to be superior , or about equal , to others ...
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... for a week ; and when he returns , if he can tell whether a colt is five days old , or seven , he ' s a precious deal cuter than I takes him to be ! " At this he gave a peculiar kind of chuckle , 34 MY LIFE AND ADVENTURES .
... for a week ; and when he returns , if he can tell whether a colt is five days old , or seven , he ' s a precious deal cuter than I takes him to be ! " At this he gave a peculiar kind of chuckle , 34 MY LIFE AND ADVENTURES .
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... colt ; if you are in doubt , take him . ” I did take him , paid the money , and , although it was rather a round sum for a raw , uneducated animal , as yet I have every reason to be perfectly satisfied with my bargain . Subsequently ...
... colt ; if you are in doubt , take him . ” I did take him , paid the money , and , although it was rather a round sum for a raw , uneducated animal , as yet I have every reason to be perfectly satisfied with my bargain . Subsequently ...
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Popular passages
Page 152 - Oh, Sir ! the good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket.
Page 326 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin! Here's the house!" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits and we are tired.
Page 262 - Heavens ! what a goodly prospect spreads around, Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires, And glittering towns, and gilded streams, till all The stretching landscape into smoke decays...
Page 361 - That God and nature have put into our hands !" What ideas of God and nature, that noble Lord may entertain, I know not ; but I know, that such detestable principles are equally abhorrent to religion and humanity. "What! to attribute the sacred sanction of God and nature...
Page 129 - ... the old familiar faces. Ghost-like I paced round the haunts of my childhood, Earth seemed a desert I was bound to traverse, Seeking to find the old familiar faces. Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert not thou born in my father's dwelling? So might we talk of the old familiar faces.
Page 194 - And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Page 152 - 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.
Page 71 - CUP of 200 sovs. in specie, added to a Handicap Sweepstakes of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and only 5 if declared. The winner paid 30 sovs.
Page 263 - I was with Hercules and Cadmus once, When in a wood of Crete they bay'd the bear With hounds of Sparta : never did I hear Such gallant chiding ; for, besides the groves, The skies, the fountains, every region near Seem'd all one mutual cry : I never heard So musical a discord, such sweet thunder.
Page 4 - Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam that is in thine own eye ; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.