The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf, the chace, and every other diversion interesting to the man of pleasure and enterprize |
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... leaving Brighton , when my regiment was ordered away , was to lose the society of Frank Morrison , for we were not in the same corps , and nowhere else could I hope to meet so agreeable a companion , so jovial a comrade , or so kind and ...
... leaving Brighton , when my regiment was ordered away , was to lose the society of Frank Morrison , for we were not in the same corps , and nowhere else could I hope to meet so agreeable a companion , so jovial a comrade , or so kind and ...
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... leaves of the betting - book , Crockford - like , with extraordinary rapidity , and can tell in a moment which way the wind blows , and on what tack to steer ; whether six to four can be afforded , or five to two rejected ; whether ...
... leaves of the betting - book , Crockford - like , with extraordinary rapidity , and can tell in a moment which way the wind blows , and on what tack to steer ; whether six to four can be afforded , or five to two rejected ; whether ...
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... leaves in his apron , he deposited them in the hollow part of it , near the top , while Tee - tee- squas threw the burning embers into the lower part , feeding them with fresh grass and damp sticks . The heat , the noise , the crackling ...
... leaves in his apron , he deposited them in the hollow part of it , near the top , while Tee - tee- squas threw the burning embers into the lower part , feeding them with fresh grass and damp sticks . The heat , the noise , the crackling ...
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... leaving the harbour , an event occurred which completely marred our merriment for the time . A poor half - Canadian half - Indian woman , who had followed a soldier from a village near the Falls , and who , under a promise of marriage ...
... leaving the harbour , an event occurred which completely marred our merriment for the time . A poor half - Canadian half - Indian woman , who had followed a soldier from a village near the Falls , and who , under a promise of marriage ...
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... Leave that to the men whose hearts and souls are on their horses ' saddles or their own breeches - pockets ; the fine old English nobleman or gentleman , who can no more help being a turfite than he can a landed proprietor , who was ...
... Leave that to the men whose hearts and souls are on their horses ' saddles or their own breeches - pockets ; the fine old English nobleman or gentleman , who can no more help being a turfite than he can a landed proprietor , who was ...
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the transactions of the turf ... Visualização integral - 1840 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
20 added 25 added 30 added 50 added 50 sovs Aldcroft Ashmall bad third Basham Bay Middleton Bearpark Birdcatcher birds canter Capt Chanticleer Charlton chase Cliff Cotherstone course Derby distance Epirus Exeter's extra fillies fillies 8st Flatman Fordham Gaylad gentleman Greville's half a length head heats horse Hospodar hounds hunting incl J. M. Stanley's Jack Sheppard Kendall Knight of St Lady Leger Lord Marson Meteora mile Miss morning Morris's neck never Newmarket once round Osborne's owner pack paid 5 sovs Parr's PLATE of 50 race Rataplan riding saved his stake Saxon's season second and third second recd second saved Sir Tatton Sykes sport sportsman Steggles SWEEPSTAKES Team Valley three lengths three quarters three years old Waddington winner paid winner was sold Won by half Won by three Won easily
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Página 383 - COL. HAWKER'S INSTRUCTIONS to YOUNG SPORTSMEN in all that relates to Guns and Shooting.
Página 435 - I stuff my skin so full within Of jolly good ale and old. Back and side go bare, go bare ; Both foot and hand go cold ; But, belly, God send thee good ale enough, Whether it be new or old.
Página 77 - Ancient of days ! august Athena ! where, Where are thy men of might ? thy grand in soul ? Gone — glimmering through the dream of things that were: First in the race that led to Glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away — is this the whole?
Página 456 - Their pointed bristles stare, or 'mong the tufts Of ranker weeds, each stomach-healing plant Curious they crop, sick, spiritless, forlorn. These inauspicious days, on other cares Employ thy precious hours; the improving friend With open arms embrace, and from his lips Glean science, seasoned with good-natured wit.
Página 29 - ... and a belt of variegated worsted, from which are suspended the knife, tobacco-pouch, and other implements. Their language is of the same piebald character, being a French patois, embroidered with Indian and English words and phrases.
Página 234 - ... if he has to make play, or he will run the slower, and jade the sooner for the want of it. " The phrase at Newmarket is, that you should pull your horse to ease him in his running. When horses are in their great distress in running, they cannot bear that visible manner of pulling as looked for by many of the sportsmen ; he should be enticed to ease himself an inch a time, as his situation will allow.
Página 207 - And past those settlers' haunts the eye might roam Where earth's unliving silence all would seem ; Save where on rocks the beaver built his dome, Or buffalo remote low'd far from human home. But silent not that adverse eastern path,. Which saw Aurora's hills th...
Página 44 - Won by half a length, a head between the second and third. The winner was bought in for 105gs.
Página 96 - Mar£chal de Montrevel whose renown became so unhappily celebrated during the persecutions which followed the revocation of the edict of Nantes. He was the intimate friend of Baville, but less of a cringing courtier, although quite as ardent and inflexible as the Intendent of Languedoc had proved himself, and who left to his heirs, together with an immense fortune, a memory execrated by the descendants of those families who have suffered from his cruelties. At an early age the Marquis de Montrevel...
Página 160 - The Minstr.el tried his simple art, But distant far was Ellen's heart. XII. ALICE BRAND. Merry it is in the good green wood, When the mavis * and merle t are singing, When the deer sweeps by, and the hounds are in cry, And the hunter's horn is ringing.