 | Charles Knight - 1866 - 582 ページ
...to leave them, not choosing to provoke them further ; for there is little doubt but in two or three turns more they would make an attack. The mode of...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood camo armed with guns, &c., sometimes to the... | |
 | William Jardine - 1866 - 422 ページ
...information regarding the stock in the other parks. The mode of killing these cattle, Mr Bewick remarks, " was perhaps the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice heing given that a wild hull would he killed on a certain day, the inhahitants of the neighhourhood... | |
 | William Howitt - 1888 - 412 ページ
...leave them, not choosing to provoke them further; for there is little doubt but in two or three times more they would make an attack. " The mode of killing...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed with guns, etc., sometimes... | |
 | James Wilson - 1909 - 168 ページ
...short distance, that most people think it prudent to leave them, not chusing to provoke them further. " The mode of killing them was perhaps the only modern...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed with guns, etc., sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1823 - 432 ページ
...distance, that people think it most prudent to leave them, not choosing to provoke them further. " The mode of killing them, was, perhaps, the only modern...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighborhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. ; sometimes... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836 - 442 ページ
...and severely maimed by a wounded bull. * * " The mode of killing these cattle, Mr. Bewick remarks, ' was perhaps the only modern remains of the grandeur...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. and sometimes... | |
 | William Jardine - 1833 - 434 ページ
...information regarding the stock in the other parks. The mode of killing these cattle, Mr Bewick remarks, " was perhaps the only modern remains of the grandeur...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. and sometimes... | |
 | Rogerson and Tuxford - 1852 - 624 ページ
...Chillingham cattle had nearly or altogether ceased before 1720, when it is described in these terms:— "The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only modern...grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed... | |
 | 1790 - 540 ページ
...doubt but in two or three turns they would make an attack. " The mode of killing them was perhaps tlrc only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting...:— On notice being' given that a wild bull would be kil\iA on a certain day, the inhabitants cf •the neighbourhood came inounttJ, and fnned with guns,... | |
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The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild Bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. 
