Sporting Anecdotes, Original and Selected: Including Numerous Characteristic Portraits of Persons in Every Walk of Life who Have Acquired Notority from Their Achievements on the Turf, at the Table, and in the Diversions of the Field, with Sketches of the Various Animals of the Chase, to which is Added an Account of Noted Pedestrians, Trotting Matches, Cricketers, Etc., the Whole Forming a Complete Delineation of the Sporting World, 第 1 巻Johnstone and Van Norden, printers, 1823 |
この書籍内から
検索結果1-5 / 27
11 ページ
... feet are raised only a few inches from the ground . Any person who will try this plan will find , that his pace will be quickened , at the same time he will walk with more ease to him- self , and be better able to endure the fatigue of ...
... feet are raised only a few inches from the ground . Any person who will try this plan will find , that his pace will be quickened , at the same time he will walk with more ease to him- self , and be better able to endure the fatigue of ...
12 ページ
... feet in height ; and his sword , which still remains , is too heavy to be wielded " in these degenerate days . " Many popular stories are told of the feats of strength performed by his great grandfather ; and the late Mr. Barclay of Ury ...
... feet in height ; and his sword , which still remains , is too heavy to be wielded " in these degenerate days . " Many popular stories are told of the feats of strength performed by his great grandfather ; and the late Mr. Barclay of Ury ...
23 ページ
... feet , to keep his legs dry . He walked in a sort of lounging gait , with- out any apparent extraordinary exertion , scarce- ly raising his feet two inches above the ground . During a great part of the time he was perform- ing his feat ...
... feet , to keep his legs dry . He walked in a sort of lounging gait , with- out any apparent extraordinary exertion , scarce- ly raising his feet two inches above the ground . During a great part of the time he was perform- ing his feat ...
61 ページ
... feet like the latter , of a bluish - gray colour , with a small hump on its shoulders , covered with a mane . Innumerable hares and partridges started up on every side of us . The flat , dreary waste still continued ; though here and ...
... feet like the latter , of a bluish - gray colour , with a small hump on its shoulders , covered with a mane . Innumerable hares and partridges started up on every side of us . The flat , dreary waste still continued ; though here and ...
77 ページ
... feet long , and 18 inches in circumfer- ence : he was confined in a large crib , or cage- but we must give the dreadful relation in Mr. M'Leod's own words . " The sliding door being opened , one of the goats was thrust in , and the door ...
... feet long , and 18 inches in circumfer- ence : he was confined in a large crib , or cage- but we must give the dreadful relation in Mr. M'Leod's own words . " The sliding door being opened , one of the goats was thrust in , and the door ...
他の版 - すべて表示
多く使われている語句
amusement animal appeared Arabian horses arms badger ball Beagle Bear-baiting beautiful Billy bird body BULL-BAITING called Captain Barclay celebrated Chamois charms chase Colonel Thorn Colonel Thornton courage course coursers death deer distance Duke elephant exercise eyes Fancy favour favourite feet field five friends Garliestown gentleman Glengarry greyhound ground guineas half hand hare head Highlanders honour horse hounds hundred hunters hunting IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER killed King Jamie Knavesmire Leeson legs Macdonell Major Topham manner mare match miles minutes morning Mountstuart Elphinstone never Newmarket night o'clock observed occasion partridges passed Patrick Leeson pedestrian performed Persian cats person played pointer prey pugilistic pursuit race ride rode Scotland shooting shot singular soon spirit Sporting World sportsman stag strength thing Thornville thousand guineas tiger tion TOM MOODY took tridges turn wager walked whole William Thornton woods yards
人気のある引用
23 ページ - In his native groves, mounted on the top of a tall bush or half-grown tree, in the dawn of dewy morning, while the woods are already vocal with a multitude of warblers, his admirable song rises preeminent over every competitor. The ear can listen to his music alone, to which that of all the others seems a mere accompaniment.
38 ページ - He was the best up-hill player in the world; even when his adversary was fourteen, he would play on the same or better, and as he never flung away the game through carelessness and conceit, he never gave it up through laziness or want of heart. The only peculiarity of his play was that he never volleyed, but let the balls hop; but if they rose an inch from the ground he never missed having them. There was not only nobody equal, but nobody second to him. It is supposed that he could give any other...
40 ページ - He could not have shown himself in any ground in England but he would have been immediately surrounded with inquisitive gazers, trying to find out in what part of his frame his unrivalled skill lay, as politicians wonder to see the balance of Europe suspended in Lord Castlereagh's face, and admire the trophies of the British Navy lurking under Mr. Croker's hanging brow. Now Cavanagh was as good-looking a man as the Noble Lord, and much better looking than the Right Hon.
24 ページ - He many times deceives the sportsman, and sends him in search of birds that perhaps are not within miles of him, but whose notes he exactly imitates ; even birds themselves are frequently imposed on by this admirable mimic, and are decoyed by the fancied calls of their mates, or dive with precipitation into the depths of thickets, at the scream of what they suppose to be the sparrow-hawk.
41 ページ - And the best of it is, that by the calculation of the odds, none of the three are worth remembering ! Cavanagh died from the bursting of a blood-vessel, which prevented him from playing for the last two or three years. This, he was often heard to say, he thought hard upon him. He was fast recovering, however, when he was suddenly carried off, to the regret of all who knew him.
198 ページ - I intended to put up, the landlord came forward, and a number of other persons who happened to be there, all equally alarmed at what they heard; this was greatly increased by my asking, whether he could furnish me with accommodations for myself and my baby. The man looked blank and foolish, while the others stared with still greater astonishment. After diverting myself for a minute or two at their expense, I drew my woodpecker from under the cover, and a general laugh took place.
37 ページ - His style of play was as remarkable as his power of execution. He had no affectation, no trifling. He did not throw away the game to show off an attitude or try an experiment. He was a fine, sensible, manly player, who did what he could, but that was more than any one else could even affect to do.
37 ページ - He could either outwit his antagonist by finesse, or beat him by main strength. Sometimes, when he seemed preparing to send the ball with the full swing of his arm, he would by a slight turn of his wrist drop it within an inch of the line.
25 ページ - ... and twenty others, succeed with such imposing reality, that we look round for the originals, and discover with astonishment that the sole performer in this singular concert is the admirable bird now before us.
23 ページ - His expanded wings and tail, glistening with white, and the buoyant gaiety of his action, arresting the eye, as his song most irresistibly does the ear, he sweeps round with enthusiastic...