 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 536 pages
...and hunters' poles in great abundance. ' The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On the great hearth, paved with brick, lay some terriers,...four attending him at dinner ; and a little white stick of fourteen inches lying by his trencher, that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...and hunters* poles in great abundance. ' The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On the great hearth, paved with brick, lay some terriers,...or four attending him at dinner; and a little white stick of fourteen inches lying by his trencher, that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to... | |
 | George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 378 pages
...and hunters' poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great great hearth, paved with brick, lay some terriers,...Seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of cats in them, which were not to be disturbed: he having always three or four attending him at dinner;... | |
 | Henry Nugent Bell - 1821 - 440 pages
...intermixed ; game-keepers' and hunters' poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great hearth, paved with brick, lay...Seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of cats in them, which were not to be disturbed ; he having always three or four attending him at dinner,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 274 pages
...it had a banquetinghouse like a stand, built in a tree. ' The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great hearth paved with brick lay...four attending him at dinner ; and a little white stick of fourteen inches lying by his trencher, that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 854 pages
...intermixed ; gamekeepers' and hunters' poles in great abundance. ' The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great hearth paved with brick lay...four attending him at dinner ; and a little white stick of fourteen inches lying by his trencher, that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 530 pages
...intermixed ; gamekeepers' and hunters' poles in great abundance. ' The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great hearth paved with brick lay...four attending him at dinner ; and a little white stick of fourteen inches lying by his trencher, that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 426 pages
...intermixed ; gamekeepers' and hunters' poles in great abundance. ' The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great hearth paved with brick lay...or four attending him at dinner; and a little white stick of fourteen inches lying by his trencher, that he might defend such meat as he had no mind to... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1823 - 358 pages
...intermixed : gamekeepers-' and hunters' poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room as properly furnished . On a great hearth paved with brick lay...terriers, and the choicest hounds and spaniels. Seldom but F 2 62 THE CONNOISSEUR. 81. two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in them, which were not... | |
 | Curiosities and wonders - 1824 - 458 pages
...with game keepers' and hunters' poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great hearth, paved with brick, lay...Seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of cats in them, which were not to be disturbed, he always having three or four attending him at dinner,... | |
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... and hunters' poles in great abundance. ' The parlour was a large room as properly furnished. On a great hearth paved with brick lay some terriers, and the choicest hounds and spaniels. Seldom but two of the great chairs had litters of young cats in... 
