Sporting Magazine, Volume 38Rogerson & Tuxford, 1811 - Horse racing From July 1846 also issued, with different title pages, as the New sporting magazine, the Sportsman, and the Sporting review. |
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Page 131 - ... off with equal speed, but not to the same distance; forming a shorter circle and again returning with a bolder and more threatening aspect than before, they approach much nearer, probably within thirty yards, when they make another stand, and again...
Page 160 - He also broke a rope fastened to the floor, that would sustain twenty hundred weight, lifted an oak table, six feet long, with his teeth, though half a hundred weight was hung to the extremity ; a piece of leather was fixed to one end for his teeth to hold, two of the feet stood upon his knees, and he raised the end with the weight higher than that in his mouth. He took Mr. Chambers, vicar of All Saints, who weighed...
Page 147 - MY mother bids me bind my hair With bands of rosy hue, Tie up my sleeves with ribbons rare, And lace my bodice blue. ' For why,' she cries, ' sit still and weep, While others dance and play? ' Alas ! I scarce can go or creep While Lubin is away. 'Tis sad to think the days are gone When those we love were near ; I sit upon this mossy stone And sigh when none can hear. And while I spin my flaxen thread, And sing my simple lay, The village seems asleep or dead, Now Lubin is away. JOHN DUNLOP [1755-1820]...
Page 111 - To encourage yourself in order to do this, reflect that your progress will be from deeper to shallower water, and that at any time you may, by bringing your legs under you, and standing on the bottom, raise your head far above the water. Then plunge under it with your eyes open, throwing yourself towards the egg, and endeavouring, by the action of your hands and feet against the water, to get forward till within reach of it.
Page 291 - MR Orator Puff had two tones in his voice, The one squeaking thus, and the other down so ! In each sentence he uttered he gave you your choice, For one half was B, alt, and the rest G, below. Oh! oh! Orator Puff! One voice for one orator's surely enough.
Page 131 - ... a few steps, and bolted at his legs with all its force ; it then began to paw again, bellowed, stepped back, and bolted as before; but knowing its intention...
Page 109 - ... water, reach above the mouth and nostrils, perhaps a little above the eyes, so that a man cannot long remain suspended in water with his head in that position.
Page 173 - Case shall happen to be), in pursuance ,,of an Act, passed in the forty-second Year of the Reign ,,of his Majesty King George the Third, for (or, as the ,,Case may be). Given under our Hands and Seals the ,,Day and Year above written".
Page 72 - Whatsoever Commissioned Officer shall be convicted before a General CourtMartial, of behaving in a scandalous, infamous Manner, such as Is unbecoming the Character of an Officer and a Gentleman, shall be discharged from the Service.
Page 130 - The principal external appearances which distinguish this breed of cattle from all others, are the following : Their colour is invariably white ; muzzles black ; the whole of the inside of the ear, and about one-third of the outside, from the tip downwards, red* ; horns white, with black tips, very fine, and bent upwards : some of the bulls have a thin upright mane, about an inch and a half or two inches long.