 Unting is all that's worth living for - all time is lost wot is not spent in 'unting — it is like the hair we breathe - if we have it not we die - it's the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its...  The New sporting magazine - Sida 781839Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1843 - 626 sidor
...cleared of the children, and tke marmalade and things put straight. " 'Unting, as I have often said, is the sport of kings — the image of war without its guilt, and only n've-and-twenty per cent, of its danger. I doesn't know what the crazeyologists may say, but I believes... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1843 - 974 sidor
...in mind and body, anddewoted — oh demoted, to the noble cause of 'unting. Oh, my beloved 'carers ! I repeats, for the hundred and fifty-first time, that...kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger (cheers). Do not think I say so for the sake of gainin' your... | |
 | 1843 - 602 sidor
...cleared of the children, and the marmalade and things put straight ' 'Unting, as I have often said, is the sport of kings — the image of war without its guilt, and only fiveand-twenty per cent, of its danger. I doesn't know what the crazyologists may say, but I believes... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell - 1843 - 612 sidor
...cleared of the children, and the marmalade and things put straight. ' 'Unting, as I have often said, is the sport of kings — the image of war without its guilt, and only liveand-twenty per cent, of its danger. I doesn't know what the crnzyologists may say, but I believes... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1854 - 750 sidor
...detected, to the :iob!e cause of "unting. Oh, my beloved 'earers ! I repeats, for the underd and fifty-fust time, that 'unting is the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent, of its danger cheers). Do not think I say so for the sake of gainin' your... | |
 | Robert Smith Surtees - 1854 - 636 sidor
...it." " True," replied Mr. Jorrocks, " true ; too many cooks always spoil the broth ; but just say now that 'unting is the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger." " But though I make this statement broadly and unequivocally,"... | |
 | George Rooper - 1872 - 272 sidor
...trotted on, no whit abashed. He had faith in hunting — the British institution, the noble science, " the sport of kings, the image of war, without its guilt, and only twenty per cent, of its danger." Besides, he didn't believe in injury to wheat from riding over it... | |
 | George Rooper - 1877 - 322 sidor
...trotted on, no whit abashed. He had faith in hunting — the British institution, the noble science, " the sport of kings, the image of war, without its guilt, and only twenty per cent, of its danger." Besides, he didn't believe in injury to wheat from riding over it... | |
 | Maria Georgiana Fetherstonhaugh (hon.) - 1879 - 244 sidor
...ie, to carry him victoriously through that mimic fray, so graphically described by Mr. Jorrocks as " the image of war without its guilt, and only five and twenty per cent, of its danger ; " and likewise described by that same individual, as the " all glorious callin' of the chase." To... | |
 | 1904 - 964 sidor
...the followers of his hounds. An extract or two may serve to show our worthy friend's enthusiasm. " 'Unting is the sport of kings ; the image of war without its guilt," he declares again — it is his favorite maxim — " and only fiveand-twenty per cent, of its danger.... | |
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