 | Thomas Grognall Didbin - Bibliography - 1876 - 750 pages
...marrow-bones, and full of hawk-perches, hounds, spaniels, and terriers. The upper end of it was hung with fox-skins of this and the last year's killing. Here and there a pole-eat was intermixed, and hunter's poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room, completely... | |
 | Edward King (of Lymington.) - 1879 - 360 pages
...and small beer in great plenty: the house not so neatly kept as to shame him or his dirty shoes ; the great hall strewed with marrowbones ; full of hawks'...spaniels and terriers ; the upper side of the hall being decked with fox skins, of this and the last year's killing (here and there a polecat intermixed)... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1886 - 252 pages
...and small beer in great plenty ; a house not so neatly kept as to shame him or his dirty shoes ; the great hall strewed with marrowbones, full of hawks'...perches, hounds, spaniels, and terriers ; the upper sides of the hall hung with the fox-skins of this and the last year's skinning ; here and there a pole-cat... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill - 1886 - 256 pages
...strewed with marrowbones, full of hawks' perches, hounds, spaniels, and terriers ; the upper sides of the hall hung with the fox-skins of this and the last year's skinning ; here and there a pole-cat intermixed, guns and keepers' and huntsmen's poles in abundance.... | |
 | John Wood Warter - Great Britain - 1886 - 416 pages
...strewed with marrow bones, hounds, spaniels, and terriers. The upper end of it was hung with fox skins of this and the last year's killing. Here and there a pole-cat was intermixed, and hunters' poles in great abundance. The parlour was a large room, compleatly furnished... | |
 | William Stebbing - History - 1887 - 432 pages
...and small beer in great plenty ; a house not so neatly kept as to shame him or his dirty shoes, the great hall strewed with marrow-bones, full of hawks'...perches, hounds, spaniels, and terriers, the upper sides of the hall hung with the fox-skins of this and the last year's skinning, here and there a pole-cat... | |
 | Thomas Francis Dale - Belvoir Hunt - 1899 - 578 pages
...pudding, and small beer, and a house not so neatly kept as to shame them, or their dirty shoes ; the great hall strewed with marrow-bones, full of hawks,...this and the last year's killing, here and there a marten-cat intermixed, and gamekeepers' and hunters' poles in abundance. " The parlour was a large... | |
 | Edward King - Lymington (England) - 1900 - 384 pages
...small beer in great plenty : the house not so neatly kept as to shame him or his dirty shoes ; the great hall strewed with marrow-bones; full of hawks'...spaniels and terriers; the upper side of the hall being decked with fox skins, of this and the last year's killing (here and there a polecat intermixed)... | |
 | Henry Anderson Bryden - History - 1903 - 430 pages
...kept as to shame him (the neighbour) or his dirty shoes, the great Hall strewed with marrow bones, full of Hawks, Perches, Hounds, Spaniels, and Terriers; the upper side of the Hall hung with the Fox skins of this year and the last year's killing, here and there a Martin Cat intermixed, and Game-keepers... | |
 | Henry Howard Harper - Bibliomania - 1904 - 134 pages
...marrow-bones, and full of hawk-perches, hounds, spaniels, and terriers. The upper end of it was hung with fox-skins of this and the last year's killing. Here and there a polecat was intermixed and hunter's poles 36 in great abundance. The parlour was a large room, completely furnished... | |
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This made him very popular; always speaking kindly to the husband, brother, or father, who was to boot very welcome to his house whenever he came. " There he found beef, pudding, and small beer in great plenty ; a house not so neatly kept as to shame... 
