 ... they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the Lord Mayor's pack of dogs, when the common hunt goes out. The lower classes divert themselves at football, wrestling, cudgels, ninepins, shovelboard,* cricket...  The cricket-field. By J. Pycroft - Page 10by James Pycroft - 1862Full view - About this book
 | 1839 - 642 pages
...drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, playing at tables or backgammon, cards, dice, and billiards ; also musical entertainments, dancing,...balls, stage-plays, and club-meetings, in the evening ; and they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the Lord Mayor's pack of dogs, when the common... | |
 | Horace Smith - Amusements - 1831 - 372 pages
...drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, playing at tables of backgammon, cards, dice, and billiards ; also musical entertainments, dancing,...balls, stage-plays, and club-meetings in the evening ; and they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the lord mayor's pack of dogs, when the common... | |
 | Horace Smith - English literature - 1833 - 382 pages
...drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, playing at tables of backgammon, carda, dice, and billiards ; also musical entertainments, dancing,...balls, stage-plays, and club-meetings in the evening ; and they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the lord mayor's pack of dogs, when the common... | |
 | Joseph Strutt - Games - 1838 - 500 pages
...drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, playing at tables, or backgammon, cards, dice, and billiards; also musical entertainments, dancing, masks,...sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the lord-mayor's pack of dogs when the common hunt goes out. The lower classes divert themselves at football,... | |
 | 1840 - 494 pages
...also musical entertainments, dancing, masks, halls, stage-plays, and club-meetings in the evening; and they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with...Lord Mayor's pack of dogs, when the common hunt goes out. The lower classes divert themselves at football, wrestling, cudgels, ninepins, shovelboard, f... | |
 | Sports - 1847 - 72 pages
...drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, playing at tables, or backgammon, cards, dice, and billiards ; also musical entertainments, dancing,...on horseback, and hunt with the Lord Mayor's pack, &c. The lower classes divert themselves at foot-balls, wrestling, cudgels, nine-pins, shovelboard,... | |
 | Child rearing - 1847 - 368 pages
...drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, playing at tables of backgammon, cards, dice, and billiards ; also musical entertainments, dancing,...balls, stage-plays, and club-meetings in the evening ; and they sometimes ride out on horseback, and hunt with the lord mayor's pack of dogs, when the common... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1857 - 564 pages
...(1720) besides drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, playing at backgammon, cards, dice, and billiards ; also musical entertainments, dancing,...Lord Mayor's pack of dogs, when the common hunt goes out. The lower classes * Strypes's Edition of Stow's Survey, 1720. divert themselves at football, cudgels,... | |
 | James Pycroft - Baseball - 1859 - 270 pages
...modern sports of the citizens, besides drinking^.), 'are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens, hackgammon, cards, dice, billiards, also musical entertainments,...themselves at foot-ball, wrestling, cudgels, ninepins, shovel - board, cricket, stow - ball, ringing of bells, quoits, pitching the bar, bull and bear baitings,... | |
 | 1884 - 798 pages
...the citizens, besides drinking, are cock-fighting, bowling upon greens — they sometimes ride out with the Lord Mayor's pack of dogs, when the common hunt goes out The lower classes divert themselves at football, wrestling, cudgels, nine-pins, shovelboard, cricket,... | |
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