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... clippers in the race . Such is but a faint picture of the weather on the morning of the match . Every yachtsman knows the risk at starting with a light wind : all are eager to obtain the lead ; and the spring is often sprung too soon ...
... clippers in the race . Such is but a faint picture of the weather on the morning of the match . Every yachtsman knows the risk at starting with a light wind : all are eager to obtain the lead ; and the spring is often sprung too soon ...
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... clippers , a livery - stable keeper - an honest fellow , and a really good judge besides . But fallible are the best judges ; for having no Alexander - like luck , we went , we saw , and were conquered . We were , in truth , sadly ...
... clippers , a livery - stable keeper - an honest fellow , and a really good judge besides . But fallible are the best judges ; for having no Alexander - like luck , we went , we saw , and were conquered . We were , in truth , sadly ...
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... clippers of the watery ce - course . Two of these matches were spiritedly contested , and demand our es ecial notice : but that of the Royal London Yacht Club , on the 13th ult . , when the Phantom sailed an isolated race , is ...
... clippers of the watery ce - course . Two of these matches were spiritedly contested , and demand our es ecial notice : but that of the Royal London Yacht Club , on the 13th ult . , when the Phantom sailed an isolated race , is ...
Sida 56
... clipper to turn up skilfully in such a breeze as that on the day of the match . The Silver Cloud was first round the ... clippers in Lower Hope . The Violet and Flirt made very good weather of it , notwithstanding ; but the Veritas and ...
... clipper to turn up skilfully in such a breeze as that on the day of the match . The Silver Cloud was first round the ... clippers in Lower Hope . The Violet and Flirt made very good weather of it , notwithstanding ; but the Veritas and ...
Sida 57
... clippers with bounteous puffs , squalls , and strong breezes , such as sturdy yachtsmen welcome with delight and satisfaction . At 11 o'clock the following vessels took up their stations in a line across the river , abreast of ...
... clippers with bounteous puffs , squalls , and strong breezes , such as sturdy yachtsmen welcome with delight and satisfaction . At 11 o'clock the following vessels took up their stations in a line across the river , abreast of ...
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Sida 348 - See! from the brake the whirring pheasant springs, And mounts exulting on triumphant wings: Short is his joy; he feels the fiery wound, Flutters in blood, and panting beats the ground. Ah! what avail his glossy, varying dyes, His purple crest, and scarlet-circled eyes, The vivid green his shining plumes unfold, His painted wings, and breast that flames with gold?
Sida 177 - With the loud streams: and often, at the hour When issue forth the first pale stars, is heard, Within the circuit of this fabric huge, One voice — the solitary raven, flying Athwart the concave of the dark blue dome, Unseen, perchance above all power of sight — An iron knell ! with echoes from afar Faint — and still fainter...
Sida 323 - WHEN Time, who steals our years away, Shall steal our pleasures too, The memory of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Sida 213 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Sida 193 - Won by half a length, a length and a half between the second and third, and a length between the third and fourth.
Sida 152 - ... may call in any other members of the Jockey Club to their assistance, or may refer the case to a general meeting, if the importance or difficulty of the matter in dispute shall appear to them to require it. The witnesses examined shall be required to sign their evidence, and if either party...
Sida 176 - And soon a score of fires, I ween, From height, and hill, and cliff, were seen ; Each with warlike tidings fraught ; Each from each the signal caught ; Each after each they glanced to sight, As stars arise upon the night. They gleam'd on many a dusky tarn, Haunted by the lonely earn ; On many a cairn's grey pyramid, Where urns of mighty chiefs lie hid...
Sida 99 - ... latter they carried with them when they journeyed from one country to another ; and sometimes even when they went to battle, and would not part with them even to procure their own liberty when taken prisoners. These birds were considered as ensigns of nobility ; and no action could be reckoned more dishonourable to a man of rank, than to give up his hawk.
Sida 74 - Pretty Boy, and 3 to 1 against Coroner. Won by half a length, five lengths between the second and third. Mr. Sargent's bf sister to Spindle, by Orlando, 8st.
Sida 99 - English archen of his time. Speaking of the notorious manner in which their strength had declined, he says, " The French soldiers were in the habit of turning their backs to the English at long range, bidding them shoot. But, adds Hollingshed, " had the archers been what they were wont to be, these fellows would have had their breeches nailed unto their buttocks.