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... sold a bargain . Off he flies to see the far - famed horse . A good story , well told , is already prepared : of corroboratory evidence , too , both vivâ voce and documentary , there is no lack . It is cut and dry for all comers ...
... sold a bargain . Off he flies to see the far - famed horse . A good story , well told , is already prepared : of corroboratory evidence , too , both vivâ voce and documentary , there is no lack . It is cut and dry for all comers ...
Sida 80
THE OMNIBUS . of Wothorpe , realized 2,561 gs . for the six lots sold . Thirty were un- sold , including four stallions ( for Vanderdecken and Midas were not brought out ) , which were bought - in for 3,220 gs . Fifteen brood mares ...
THE OMNIBUS . of Wothorpe , realized 2,561 gs . for the six lots sold . Thirty were un- sold , including four stallions ( for Vanderdecken and Midas were not brought out ) , which were bought - in for 3,220 gs . Fifteen brood mares ...
Sida 161
... sold , but that the Rawcliffe shareholders tried to keep it quiet till the sale was over . They have now advertised him at fifteen guineas , which looks as if the bargain had gone off . Twelve hundred is said to have been his price to ...
... sold , but that the Rawcliffe shareholders tried to keep it quiet till the sale was over . They have now advertised him at fifteen guineas , which looks as if the bargain had gone off . Twelve hundred is said to have been his price to ...
Sida 230
... sold at York , are for Prussia . M. Aumont , a leading man on the French turf , retires ; and the whole of his stud - a very extensive one - will be sold at the end of the season . The St. Leger , reduced to a match between Ellington ...
... sold at York , are for Prussia . M. Aumont , a leading man on the French turf , retires ; and the whole of his stud - a very extensive one - will be sold at the end of the season . The St. Leger , reduced to a match between Ellington ...
Sida 284
... sold it . " Sold it ! " absolutely screeched the lady : " you can never find another I shall like half as well ; and after the trouble that was taken in new - furnishing it on our marriage , and arranging that to so per- fectly ...
... sold it . " Sold it ! " absolutely screeched the lady : " you can never find another I shall like half as well ; and after the trouble that was taken in new - furnishing it on our marriage , and arranging that to so per- fectly ...
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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.