The New sporting magazine, Volume 131847 |
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... better part . " Many a man , in fact , with a far shorter string , has played a more successful game ; and if the mere sum total of prizes pocketed , or flyers produced be the argu- ment , we must confess to knowing greater names than ...
... better part . " Many a man , in fact , with a far shorter string , has played a more successful game ; and if the mere sum total of prizes pocketed , or flyers produced be the argu- ment , we must confess to knowing greater names than ...
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... better even last year than ours were . " And if sport is to be the test , he answered rightly . Whether it is so or not is another question ; I feel morally certain that they can't be better than they are now . Lord Southampton is at ...
... better even last year than ours were . " And if sport is to be the test , he answered rightly . Whether it is so or not is another question ; I feel morally certain that they can't be better than they are now . Lord Southampton is at ...
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... better , though one excellent horse , John Bull , is gone out of it , not to return . His place is supplied by the Merry Shepherd , Oscar , Wandering Jew , and others , to whom I wish a long season and a merry one . There's another ...
... better , though one excellent horse , John Bull , is gone out of it , not to return . His place is supplied by the Merry Shepherd , Oscar , Wandering Jew , and others , to whom I wish a long season and a merry one . There's another ...
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... better - mind free from anxiety and his body from danger . They've found a fox in the gorse : a ring to the village again ; and three gentlemen down out of the twelve who are with them in the three first fences : a slight check at the ...
... better - mind free from anxiety and his body from danger . They've found a fox in the gorse : a ring to the village again ; and three gentlemen down out of the twelve who are with them in the three first fences : a slight check at the ...
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would be a better word ) I am not prepared to say ; but however ef- fected , it must have been the result of much time and trouble . . . . It's a pity it was not impossible . . . . Mr. Gurney , the great banker of Norwich , was a great ...
would be a better word ) I am not prepared to say ; but however ef- fected , it must have been the result of much time and trouble . . . . It's a pity it was not impossible . . . . Mr. Gurney , the great banker of Norwich , was a great ...
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Page 44 - The entire ceiling is divided into thirteen bays, each of which is subdivided into twenty-four smaller ones, and these contain each two shields, emblazoned with the armorial bearings of all the Knights of the Garter, from the institution of the order down to the present time, an elapse of nearly 500 years.