A Squire trap, by Jove!
Henry Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.
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Mytton on “Baronet” clears nine yards of water.
Henry Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.
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What! Never upset in a gig?
Henry Alken, from Memoirs of the life of the late John Mytton, esq., by Nimrod (Charles James Apperley), London, 1900.
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Horse market, Cairo (a hot bargain).
F. A. Bridgman, from The magazine of art, London, 1888.
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He sigh’d as he look’d at her.
George Du Maurier, from Lucile, by Owen Meredith, London, 1868.
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Palamon desireth to slay his foe Arcite.
Walter Appleton Clark, from The Canterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer, modern rendition by Percy MacKaye, New York, 1914.
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He died with the rushing wind on his face.
From Puck on Pegasus, by Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell, illustrated by John Leech, John Tenniel et al, London, 1868.
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He sorrowed o’er the expiring horse.
Charles Edmund Brock, from The lady of the lake, by Walter Scott, London, 1904.
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Agostino Lacurci. La Finta Nonna.
Illustration for the novel La finta nonna, contained in Fiabe Italiane
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