 I never very much liked it. I was never quite at ease when I had knocked down my blackcock, and going to pick him up, he cast back his dying eye with a look of reproach. I don't affect to be more squeamish than my neighbors, — but I am not ashamed to...  Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart - Page 93by John Gibson Lockhart - 1862Full view - About this book
 | John Gibson Lockhart - 1838 - 390 pages
...somehow I never very much liked it. I was never quite at ease when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to pick him up, he cast back his dying eye...look of reproach. I don't affect to be more squeamish * This seems refining. Sir Walter, like any other gentleman of his standing, • night be expected... | |
 | George Daniel - London (England) - 1852 - 328 pages
...! send I never very much liked it. I was never quite at ease when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to pick him up, he cast back his dying eye...reconciled me fully to the cruelty of the affair." . . Pardon, peace — and let the morn Rise on a Spirit newly born ! Lively Faith appear in power,... | |
 | George Daniel - English poetry - 1852 - 338 pages
...much liked it. I was never quite at ease when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to pick h1m up, he cast back his dying eye with a look of reproach....reconciled me fully to the cruelty of the affair." . . . Pardon, peace — and let the morn Rise on a Spirit newly born ! Lively Faith appear in power,... | |
 | English literature - 1858 - 594 pages
...never quite at ease,' he said to Basil Hall, in conversation, ' when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to pick him up, he cast back his dying eye...than my neighbours, but I am not ashamed to say that use never reconciled me fully to the cruelty of the affair. At all events, now that I can do as I like... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pages
...never quite at case," he said to Basil Hall, in conversation, "when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to pick him up, he cast back his dying eye...reproach. I don't affect to be more squeamish than my neighbors, but I am not ashamed to say that use never reconciled me fully to the cruelty of the affair.... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1858 - 598 pages
...he said to Basil Hall, in conversation, - when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to ?ick him up, he cast back his dying eye with a look of reproach, don't affect to be more squeamish than my neighbours, but I am not ashamed to say that use never reconciled... | |
 | Society of Friends - 1859 - 852 pages
...never quite at ease," he said to Basil Hall, in conversation, '; when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to pick him up, he cast back his dying eye...reproach. I don't affect to be more squeamish than nay neighbors, but I am not ashamed to say that use never reconciled me to the cruelty of the affiir.... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 390 pages
...somehow I never very much liked it. I was never quite at ease when I had knocked down my black-cock, and going to pick him up, he cast back his dying eye...ashamed to say, that no practice ever reconciled me to the cruelty of the affair." UNLUCKY REFLECTION. Mr. Jephson, the elder, lived at Blackrock, and... | |
 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 374 pages
...lips, causing a burst of laughter which sent half of the contents about the table." SHOOTING GAME. cast back his dying eye with a look of reproach. I don't atfect to be more squeamish than my neighbours, — but I am not ashamed to say, that no practice ever... | |
 | Great Britain - 1868 - 812 pages
...and going to pick him up, he oast back his dying eyes with a look of reproach/ he was quite touched. 'I don't affect to be more squeamish than my neighbours, but I am not ashamed to say that use never reconciled me fully to the cruelty of the affair. I don't carry this nicety, however, beyond... | |
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