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... turning short as though he had been beheaded , the fox went to ground in a rabbit burrow , but was bolted at once , and ... turned out to be in every respect highly judicious . Met at Heasley Mills ; found in Long Wood ; ran him over the ...
... turning short as though he had been beheaded , the fox went to ground in a rabbit burrow , but was bolted at once , and ... turned out to be in every respect highly judicious . Met at Heasley Mills ; found in Long Wood ; ran him over the ...
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... turned in after spending two or three of the little hours over head and ears in brandy and water , with his broboscis as be - smoked as a sacrificial altar - he an- swers with a sort of purr , which is his way of doing the polite . We ...
... turned in after spending two or three of the little hours over head and ears in brandy and water , with his broboscis as be - smoked as a sacrificial altar - he an- swers with a sort of purr , which is his way of doing the polite . We ...
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... turned , and booked the fox " dead as a stone . " I was almost feeling for my knife to brush him , and stood about fifty yards from the mouth of the drain to allow the pack to have a clear run at him as he came out ; with breathless ...
... turned , and booked the fox " dead as a stone . " I was almost feeling for my knife to brush him , and stood about fifty yards from the mouth of the drain to allow the pack to have a clear run at him as he came out ; with breathless ...
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... turning at once to it . In all the grand essentials of a good race - horse - bottom , pace , pluck , and luck — the three - year - old running of our present hero tends to make him pretty nearly perfect ; while these abilities have ...
... turning at once to it . In all the grand essentials of a good race - horse - bottom , pace , pluck , and luck — the three - year - old running of our present hero tends to make him pretty nearly perfect ; while these abilities have ...
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... turned as he turned , and seemed never at a loss ; and if he stopped for an instant , she stood and marked him . It will be under .. stood that she did not get into a hedge , but worked to and fro by the side of it , so that a polecat ...
... turned as he turned , and seemed never at a loss ; and if he stopped for an instant , she stood and marked him . It will be under .. stood that she did not get into a hedge , but worked to and fro by the side of it , so that a polecat ...
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Página 6 - One lesson, shepherd, let us two divide, Taught both by what she shows, and what conceals • Never to blend our pleasure or our pride With sorrow of the meanest thing that feels.
Página 249 - And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before, From within and without, from above and below, And all at once to the Bishop they go. " They have whetted their teeth against the stones, And now they pick the Bishop's bones ; They gnaw'd the flesh from every limb, For they were sent to do judgment on him.
Página 89 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.
Página 248 - tis an excellent bonfire!" quoth he; "And the country is greatly obliged to me For ridding it, in these times forlorn, Of rats that only consume the corn.
Página 23 - ... of business; it has enabled man to descend to the depths of the sea, to soar into the air, to penetrate securely into the noxious recesses of the earth, to traverse the land in cars which whirl along without horses, and the ocean in ships which run ten knots an hour against the wind; These are but a part of its fruits, and of its first fruits.
Página 165 - And plays about the gilded barges' sides; The ladies, angling in the crystal lake, Feast on the waters with the prey they take ; At once victorious with their lines, and eyes, They make the fishes, and the men, their prize.
Página 247 - The poor folk flocked from far and near ; The great barn was full as it could hold Of women and children, and young and old. Then when he saw it could hold no more, Bishop Hatto he made fast the door ; And...
Página 249 - And in at the windows, and in at the door, And through the walls by thousands they pour, And down from the ceiling, and up through the floor, From the right and the left, from behind and before...
Página 401 - Had I been any god of power, I would Have sunk the sea within the earth, or e'er It should the good ship so have swallow'd, and The fraughting souls within her.
Página 168 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.