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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 is to ...
... 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 is to ...
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... look from his master , in which it was very easy for him to read the irrevocable deter- mination 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 ...
... look from his master , in which it was very easy for him to read the irrevocable deter- mination 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 ...
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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 with 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 with 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 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 2 - ... 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 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 117 - And from the deep-mouthed thunder flies: She starts, she stops, she pants for breath; She hears the near advance of death ; She doubles, to mislead the hound, And measures back her mazy round: Till, fainting in the public way, Half dead with fear she gasping lay. What transport in her bosom grew, When first the Horse appeared in view! "Let me," says she, "your back ascend, And owe my safety to a friend.
Page 156 - No house, office, room, or other place shall be opened, kept, or used for the purpose of the owner, occupier, or keeper thereof, or any person using the same...
Page 72 - Because authority, though it err like others, • Hath yet a kind of medicine in itself, That skins the vice o...
Page 153 - Together let us beat this ample field, Try what the open, what the covert yield!
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 116 - As when th' impatient greyhound slipt from far, Bounds o'er the glebe, to course the fearful hare, She in her speed does all her safety lay; And he with double speed pursues the prey...