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... look out for squalls next St . Leger anniversary , woe to the dividends ! Contemporary was Folkestone , Dover ... looks odd to be set down to breakfast by a couple of fires en route to the racecourse , but such was the case with those ...
... look out for squalls next St . Leger anniversary , woe to the dividends ! Contemporary was Folkestone , Dover ... looks odd to be set down to breakfast by a couple of fires en route to the racecourse , but such was the case with those ...
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... look at him and say : “ Have a little patience , my old friend , we ' ll see about it all in a few days . ” At last , on the very day that they had been performing masses for the repose of the soul of the late Madame de Bologne - that ...
... look at him and say : “ Have a little patience , my old friend , we ' ll see about it all in a few days . ” At last , on the very day that they had been performing masses for the repose of the soul of the late Madame de Bologne - that ...
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... look from his master , in which it was very easy for him to read the irrevocable determination which he had taken the night before . Upon their return home , Monsieur de Bologne , who jogged along a few paces at the head of his equipage ...
... look from his master , in which it was very easy for him to read the irrevocable determination which he had taken the night before . Upon their return home , Monsieur de Bologne , who jogged along a few paces at the head of his equipage ...
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... look at what my uncle called fine weather ; and if I had not known him as well as I did , I should have thought he was joking wish me . The sky was about the colour of lead , and appeared so low that you might fancy that you could ...
... look at what my uncle called fine weather ; and if I had not known him as well as I did , I should have thought he was joking wish me . The sky was about the colour of lead , and appeared so low that you might fancy that you could ...
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... look at them , and much we were in need of stopping for a few instants , for we were carrying upon our shoulders , suspended by a pole , a tolerably sized boar of some hundred - and - ninety pounds . One of our hounds set to barking ...
... look at them , and much we were in need of stopping for a few instants , for we were carrying upon our shoulders , suspended by a pole , a tolerably sized boar of some hundred - and - ninety pounds . One of our hounds set to barking ...
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Page 157 - ... assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race or other race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or as or for the consideration for securing the paying or giving by some other person of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency as aforesaid...
Page 157 - ... thereof, betting with persons resorting thereto ; or for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received by or on behalf of such owner...
Page 153 - The latent tracts, the giddy heights, explore Of all who blindly creep, or sightless soar; Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise ; Laugh where we must, be candid where we can, But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Page 80 - ... the common gaol or house of correction (with or without hard labour), as to the justice or justices shall seem meet, for any term not exceeding two calendar months...
Page 3 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Page 159 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 117 - Ten brace, and more, of greyhounds, snowy fair, And tall as stags, ran loose, and coursed around his chair...
Page 446 - Percé jusques au fond du cœur D'une atteinte imprévue aussi bien que mortelle, Misérable vengeur d'une juste querelle, Et malheureux objet d'une injuste rigueur, Je demeure immobile, et mon âme abattue Cède au coup qui me tue.
Page 2 - ... as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race...
Page 313 - Nose and chin would shame a knocker, Wrinkles that would puzzle Cocker; Mouth which marks the envious scorner, With a scorpion in each corner, Turning its quick tail to sting you, In the place that most may wring you...