Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... leg to stand on that can be trusted to , that's all . " " You don't mean as to fortune , I hope , " said Stevens ; " indeed you can't , for we've had some pretty good stakes come to the stable all last year , and are beginning agin this ...
... leg to stand on that can be trusted to , that's all . " " You don't mean as to fortune , I hope , " said Stevens ; " indeed you can't , for we've had some pretty good stakes come to the stable all last year , and are beginning agin this ...
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... trying the experiment on Mr. Driver's head , who , I believe , found the retaliation very hard , and his scull very soft ; so , I apprehend , we should find our legs if we used them 42 HUNTING SEATS AND RACING SEATS . for the purpose.
... trying the experiment on Mr. Driver's head , who , I believe , found the retaliation very hard , and his scull very soft ; so , I apprehend , we should find our legs if we used them 42 HUNTING SEATS AND RACING SEATS . for the purpose.
الصفحة 42
... legs , thus leaving room for an ordinary pointer between the seat and the saddle . No man with such a seat could cross a country , and no jockey with such a one should ever have crossed a race - horse : but now our hunting men are not ...
... legs , thus leaving room for an ordinary pointer between the seat and the saddle . No man with such a seat could cross a country , and no jockey with such a one should ever have crossed a race - horse : but now our hunting men are not ...
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... leg - weary ; but the exertion would act on the lungs , and when they become weary it is weary work indeed . It matters not whether increase of pace or increase of weight produces the effect ; the effect produced reduces the horse to ...
... leg - weary ; but the exertion would act on the lungs , and when they become weary it is weary work indeed . It matters not whether increase of pace or increase of weight produces the effect ; the effect produced reduces the horse to ...
الصفحة 51
... leg in a place to act as a prop to his body ; independent of which , dwelling so long a time on each leg fatigues both muscles and sinews . Let any person try the truth of this by measuring only half a mile by striding it in yards : he ...
... leg in a place to act as a prop to his body ; independent of which , dwelling so long a time on each leg fatigues both muscles and sinews . Let any person try the truth of this by measuring only half a mile by striding it in yards : he ...
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