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... remark is particularly applicable to mares which are not thorough - bred ; unless their lineage is known , and the properties of their progenitors , breeding from them is quite a matter of chance . Such a mare may have the appearance of ...
... remark is particularly applicable to mares which are not thorough - bred ; unless their lineage is known , and the properties of their progenitors , breeding from them is quite a matter of chance . Such a mare may have the appearance of ...
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... remarked that some of our best horses were first foals : Doctor Syntax , Filho da Puta , Touchstone , and Sir Hercules . Several others might be enumerated , but they do not occur to me at the present moment . Paynator was twenty years ...
... remarked that some of our best horses were first foals : Doctor Syntax , Filho da Puta , Touchstone , and Sir Hercules . Several others might be enumerated , but they do not occur to me at the present moment . Paynator was twenty years ...
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... remark . All at once it flashed upon him that it must have been Mrs . Bloker whom he had seen , a short hour ago , in something less than demi - toilette ; and the agonizing necessity of apologizing impelled him to blurt out" I assure ...
... remark . All at once it flashed upon him that it must have been Mrs . Bloker whom he had seen , a short hour ago , in something less than demi - toilette ; and the agonizing necessity of apologizing impelled him to blurt out" I assure ...
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... remark that ( according to our private calculations from the data in its columns of Dec . 18th ) Earl Derhy has beaten Mr . Bowes by £402 for the head place , and that Lord Glasgow has improved by £670 upon his £2 , 250 winnings of last ...
... remark that ( according to our private calculations from the data in its columns of Dec . 18th ) Earl Derhy has beaten Mr . Bowes by £402 for the head place , and that Lord Glasgow has improved by £670 upon his £2 , 250 winnings of last ...
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... remark of “ playful as an elephant " will lose its irony from Mr . Cooke ' s surprising tuition of the Wise Elephants of the East . Thither he takes a spin at DRURY LANE ; but is sorely puzzled to make head or tail of “ King Humming Top ...
... remark of “ playful as an elephant " will lose its irony from Mr . Cooke ' s surprising tuition of the Wise Elephants of the East . Thither he takes a spin at DRURY LANE ; but is sorely puzzled to make head or tail of “ King Humming Top ...
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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...