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" ... of those that are wounded or tired. To this entertainment there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without... "
A History of the County of Surrey: Comprising Every Object of Topographical ... - Page 93
by Thomas Allen - 1831
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Poetaster, Issues 27-28

Ben Jonson - Poets, Latin - 1616 - 418 pages
...they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded,...
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A vindication of natural society, by Edm. Burke. The history and antiquities ...

Robert Dodsley - 1761 - 380 pages
...they are faftened behind, and then worried by great Englijh Bull-dogs ; but not without great Rifque to the Dogs, from the Horns of the One, and the Teeth of the other ; and it fometimes happens they are killed upon the Spot ; frcfh ones are immediately fupplfed in the Place...
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Paul Hentzner's Travels in England: During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Paul Hentzner, Sir Robert Naunton - Great Britain - 1797 - 192 pages
...they are faftened behind, and then worried by great Englifh bull-dogs, but not without great rifque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it fometimes happens they are killed upon the fpot ; frefh ones are immediately fupplied in the places...
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Paul Hentzner's Travels in England: During the Reign of Queen Elizabeth

Paul Hentzner, Sir Robert Naunton - Great Britain - 1797 - 204 pages
...they are faftened behind, and then worried by great Englifh bull-dogs, but not without great rifque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it fometimes happens they are killed upon the fpot; frefh ones are immediately fupplied in the places...
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A Journey Into England: In the Year M.D.XC.VIII.

Paul Hentzner - Great Britain - 1807 - 86 pages
...they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not •without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of thc other; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied...
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Shakespeare and His Times: Including the Biography of the Poet ..., Volume 2

Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 702 pages
...they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed on the spot ; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded...
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The Nic-Nac; or, oracle of knowledge, Volume 1

1822 - 430 pages
...There is still another place built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of hull* and bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried...happens that they are killed on the spot, but fresh ones arc immediately supplied." H« adds iin account TUB NIC-NAG. of a still mure inhuman practise, that...
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The Nic-nac: Or, Literary Cabinet, Volume 1

English literature - 1823 - 442 pages
...fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dojcs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other;...the spot, but fresh ones are immediately supplied." Hi adds an account TUB NIC-MAC. of a still more inhuman practice, that of whipping a Mind bear to death,...
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The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth: Among ..., Volume 2

John Nichols - England - 1823 - 680 pages
...they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs : but not without great risque to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other ; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon (he spot : fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are...
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Illustrations, Critical, Historical, Biographical, and ..., Volume 3

Richard Warner - 1824 - 434 pages
...before quoted, gives the following particulars of the sports at Paris Garden, in London. There is a place built" in the form of a theatre, which serves...sometimes happens that they are killed on the spot: fresh ones are immediately supplied in the place of those that are wounded and tired. To this entertainment,...
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