Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... short , he looked like a man in easy circumstances , with his mind also at ease , and therefore determined to be comfortable . The other was some fifteen years his junior ; but his face told of days and nights of anxious thought ; and ...
... short , he looked like a man in easy circumstances , with his mind also at ease , and therefore determined to be comfortable . The other was some fifteen years his junior ; but his face told of days and nights of anxious thought ; and ...
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... short , both horse and man looked like " dangerous customers " to deal with . On the table , by the side of this visitor , stood a bottle of brandy , and a jug of cold water to a large tumbler of the latter , he had added a couple of ...
... short , both horse and man looked like " dangerous customers " to deal with . On the table , by the side of this visitor , stood a bottle of brandy , and a jug of cold water to a large tumbler of the latter , he had added a couple of ...
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... short wheelers ' reins did very well for six miles an hour ; but we should get in a mess if we used them going sometimes fourteen over a hilly country . Racing pace calls for racing practices ; and horses to go with hounds now must all ...
... short wheelers ' reins did very well for six miles an hour ; but we should get in a mess if we used them going sometimes fourteen over a hilly country . Racing pace calls for racing practices ; and horses to go with hounds now must all ...
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... short , till they begin to squeak ; but we must not burst a hole in the leather , or what the deuce shall we do to light the fire again ? Wind is strength ; and the want of it pro tem . prostrates the powers of the prou- dest and the ...
... short , till they begin to squeak ; but we must not burst a hole in the leather , or what the deuce shall we do to light the fire again ? Wind is strength ; and the want of it pro tem . prostrates the powers of the prou- dest and the ...
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... short burst with the first flight ; but the pace continued must beat them ; that is , if it is a fast one . It is not entirely the weight that does it , but the weight at the pace : weight and pace no horse breathing can stand long ...
... short burst with the first flight ; but the pace continued must beat them ; that is , if it is a fast one . It is not entirely the weight that does it , but the weight at the pace : weight and pace no horse breathing can stand long ...
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