The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'.John William Carleton 1841 |
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... length grew slack : our supplies were exhausted - things began to look serious , when S , always on the qui vive , cried , " It's all right , I've caught the butler ; " and straightway he was in communication with a portly personage in ...
... length grew slack : our supplies were exhausted - things began to look serious , when S , always on the qui vive , cried , " It's all right , I've caught the butler ; " and straightway he was in communication with a portly personage in ...
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... length , with depth of brisket , which is so distinguishing a mark of the English horse , without the fault of a long back . " wrought no sensible effects on the character of our horses LONDON DEALERS ' STABLES . 23 LONDON DEALERS' STABLES.
... length , with depth of brisket , which is so distinguishing a mark of the English horse , without the fault of a long back . " wrought no sensible effects on the character of our horses LONDON DEALERS ' STABLES . 23 LONDON DEALERS' STABLES.
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... length . Robinson made a dead heat for second , with St. Francis ( who went well , and ought to have gone twice as fast as he did , for the first two miles ) ; and Bloomsbury ran a jady , shuffling brute . Bokhara ran as well up as ...
... length . Robinson made a dead heat for second , with St. Francis ( who went well , and ought to have gone twice as fast as he did , for the first two miles ) ; and Bloomsbury ran a jady , shuffling brute . Bokhara ran as well up as ...
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... length the Noble Lord to whom allusion has already been made , entered the room , and distinctly stated that , upon principle , he should still refuse to abide by the alleged decision of the Jockey Club now exhibited . " In the first ...
... length the Noble Lord to whom allusion has already been made , entered the room , and distinctly stated that , upon principle , he should still refuse to abide by the alleged decision of the Jockey Club now exhibited . " In the first ...
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... length . A Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs . each , h . ft .; colts , 8 st . 4 lb .; fillies , 8 st .; two miles ; 3 lb. allowed to untried stallions , or out of mares whose produce have not won , but not to both ; marked thus allowed 3 ...
... length . A Produce Sweepstakes of 50 sovs . each , h . ft .; colts , 8 st . 4 lb .; fillies , 8 st .; two miles ; 3 lb. allowed to untried stallions , or out of mares whose produce have not won , but not to both ; marked thus allowed 3 ...
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50 sovs 9 lb 9 st agst allowed 3 lb Ascot Bay Middleton beaten Bentinck's Betting bowled Broadwath canter Capt Champagne Stakes Chapple Connelly course Darling declared Dee Stakes Derby distance Doncaster extra favourite fillies five subscribers five years old four subscribers four years old Gardnor's geldings allowed gentlemen Goodman's half a length half-bred Handicap heats Hippodrome Houghton Meeting hounds hunting Langar Leger Liverpool Lord Albemarle's Lord Eglinton's Lord Exeter's Lord G mares and geldings Match miles Moloch Muley Moloch Mynn Newmarket Oaks once round Park Park Hill Stakes Peel's Pettit placed Plate of 50 Produce Stakes Queen's Plate race second horse six and aged six years old sport Stakes at Goodwood Stakes at Liverpool Stakes of 25 Sussex Stakes Sweepstakes Sweepstakes of 50 three years old Two-year-old Stakes Velocipede winner won a Sweepstakes
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Página 243 - When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains; When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's god: Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's use and end; Why doing, sufFring, check'd, impell'd; and why This hour a slave, the next a deity.
Página 122 - ... in a thicket. I rushed up and fired — at the same time the critter leaped over the dogs and came within three feet of me, running like mad; he jumped into the lake, and tried to mount the log I had just deserted, but every time he got half his body on it, it would roll over and send him under; the dogs, too, got around him, and pulled him about, and finally Bowieknife clenched with him, and they sunk into the lake together.
Página 83 - Alas ! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert ; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eyes, Flowers whose wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison ; such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as Passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants.
Página 121 - Having completed every thing to my satisfaction, I started at sunrise, and to my great joy, I discovered from the way the dogs run, that they were near him; finding his trail was nothing, for that had become as plain to the pack as a turnpike road.
Página 122 - ... I had lost my caps, my gun had snapped, the fellow with me had fired at the bar's head, and I expected, every moment, to see him close in with the dogs, and kill a dozen of them at least. In this thing I was mistaken, for the bar leaped over the ring formed by the dogs, and giving a fierce grow], was off; the pack, of course, in full cry after him.
Página 120 - I walk into the varmints though, and it has become about as much the same to me as drinking. It is told in two sentences — a bar is started, and he is killed. The thing is somewhat monotonous now — I know just how much they will run, where they will tire, how much they will growl, and what a thundering time I will have in getting them home.
Página 118 - social hall," that part of the cabin fitted off for a bar; then was to be heard a loud crowing, which would not have continued to have interested...
Página 121 - The bar shook his head as the ball struck it, and then walked down from that tree as gently as a lady would from a carriage. 'Twas a beautiful sight to see him do that — he was in such a rage that he seemed to be as little afraid of the dogs as if they had been sucking pigs; and the dogs warn't slow in making a ring around him at a respectful distance, I tell you; even Bowie-knife, himself, stood off. Then the way his eyes...
Página 123 - It was, in fact, a creation bar, and if it had lived in Samson's time, and had met him in a fair fight, it would have licked him in the twinkling of a dice-box.
Página 119 - ... perhaps you have been to New Orleans often; I never made the first visit before, and I don't intend to make another in a crow's life. I am thrown away in that ar place, and useless, that ar a fact.