Stable Talk and Table Talk: Or, Spectacles for Young Sportsmen, المجلد 2Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1846 |
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... legs . In fact , though , as I ascertained , she was thorough - bred , her back , loins , and thighs were equal to 20st . , but her legs to look at were tobacco pipes . They reminded me of a beautifully poetic description of two ponies ...
... legs . In fact , though , as I ascertained , she was thorough - bred , her back , loins , and thighs were equal to 20st . , but her legs to look at were tobacco pipes . They reminded me of a beautifully poetic description of two ponies ...
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... leg when I left the country : and , what renders it more extraordinary is , he had begun riding her when only four years old . The old saying " an ounce of blood is worth a pound of bone , " is not far out ; but it means " if the bone ...
... leg when I left the country : and , what renders it more extraordinary is , he had begun riding her when only four years old . The old saying " an ounce of blood is worth a pound of bone , " is not far out ; but it means " if the bone ...
الصفحة 62
... legs would have stood still while you were giving an accelerator to the hind ones . Save me from able - bodied horses ! They rolled along , however , somehow , and did their thirteen miles in the allotted time . I know they also pretty ...
... legs would have stood still while you were giving an accelerator to the hind ones . Save me from able - bodied horses ! They rolled along , however , somehow , and did their thirteen miles in the allotted time . I know they also pretty ...
الصفحة 63
... leg among them ; in short , had they attempted the impossibility of trotting before they had got a little on their legs ... legs many would suppose it would be impossible they could go . I can only say , after being put to the coach , it ...
... leg among them ; in short , had they attempted the impossibility of trotting before they had got a little on their legs ... legs many would suppose it would be impossible they could go . I can only say , after being put to the coach , it ...
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... legs ; but it gives a tem- porary fillip to sinking animation , and gives him spirit to bear the fatigue he is suffering : so , while the animation lasts in the horse , he bears fatigue also so long as his powers last ; and I fear many ...
... legs ; but it gives a tem- porary fillip to sinking animation , and gives him spirit to bear the fatigue he is suffering : so , while the animation lasts in the horse , he bears fatigue also so long as his powers last ; and I fear many ...
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