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... beat in rattling him up and down the heavy rides . Another system , which has many supporters in men who know the country , is to steal quietly to some favoured corner whence foxes generally break , and there patiently await his coming ...
... beat in rattling him up and down the heavy rides . Another system , which has many supporters in men who know the country , is to steal quietly to some favoured corner whence foxes generally break , and there patiently await his coming ...
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... beat , And , ere you count two , lay it dead at your feet ; She will follow the hounds , and , still first in the rush , Outstrip all the others to bear off the brush ; She will ride you a race , if to ride be her will , And win it ...
... beat , And , ere you count two , lay it dead at your feet ; She will follow the hounds , and , still first in the rush , Outstrip all the others to bear off the brush ; She will ride you a race , if to ride be her will , And win it ...
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... beat them though running in their shoes . The prizes which he gained during the day , he gave away at christenings in the evening . " Jesse too , in his " Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts , " gives the ...
... beat them though running in their shoes . The prizes which he gained during the day , he gave away at christenings in the evening . " Jesse too , in his " Memoirs of the Court of England during the Reign of the Stuarts , " gives the ...
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... beating each other alter- nately over the same course ; with this remark we leave the affair ( as the players say ) to the discrimination of an enlightened British public . After a lapse of seven years , his Royal Highness again ...
... beating each other alter- nately over the same course ; with this remark we leave the affair ( as the players say ) to the discrimination of an enlightened British public . After a lapse of seven years , his Royal Highness again ...
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... . E. L. Mostyn , with Mr. F. R. Price , and one or two others . Mr. Isaac Day generally keeps to his old beat in the vicinity of Northleach , such as Bath , Cheltenham , Oxford , Goodwood , & c . ; 42 ON TRAINING THE RACE - HORSE .
... . E. L. Mostyn , with Mr. F. R. Price , and one or two others . Mr. Isaac Day generally keeps to his old beat in the vicinity of Northleach , such as Bath , Cheltenham , Oxford , Goodwood , & c . ; 42 ON TRAINING THE RACE - HORSE .
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Page 285 - Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls : Who steals my purse, steals trash ; 'tis something, nothing ; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands : But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed, Oth.
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Page 36 - May it please your Royal Highness,— The members of the Jockey Club, deeply regretting your absence from Newmarket, earnestly entreat the affair may be buried in oblivion ; and sincerely hope that the different meetings may again be honoured by your Royal Highness's condescending attendance.