 The sportsman, however, charging this at nearly full speed, succeeds in getting to the other side, when the bushes close after him and his horse, and there is no more appearance of their transit than if a bird had hopped through.  The Sporting review, ed. by 'Craven'. - Page 118edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 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 - 1832 - 626 pages
...the bull-finch fence, (still more common in these districts,) is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman, however, charging this at nearly full speed,... | |
 | 1852 - 538 pages
...nature of the soil, is the country par excellence ; most of it is grazing land, and the fields arc large, some of them running to from sixty to one hundred...country. Brooks also here abound, the widest being the Whissendine, which is mentioned by Nimrod, when describing a celebrated run in The Chace, the Turf,... | |
 | 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 - 1832 - 618 pages
...the bull-finch fence, (still more common in these districts,) is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman, however, charging this at nearly full speed,... | |
 | Andrews Norton, Charles Folsom - American periodicals - 1834 - 518 pages
...the bull-finch fence, (still more common in these districts,) is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman, however, charging this at nearly full speed,... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...that, a strong rail, about four feet high. The bulfinch fence is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman charging this at nearly full speed, succeeds... | |
 | Nimrod - Driving of horse-drawn vehicles - 1843 - 324 pages
...termed the bulfinch-fence (still more common in these districts) is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman, however, charging this at nearly full speed,... | |
 | Nimrod - Coursing - 1851 - 80 pages
...termed the bulfinch-fence (still more common in these districts) is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman, however, charging this at nearly full speed,... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1858 - 460 pages
...that, a strong rail, about four feet high. The bulfinch fence is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman charging this at nearly full speed, succeeds... | |
 | John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley - English language - 1890 - 430 pages
...straying.] 1832. Quart. Rev., Mar., 226. The BULL-FINCH fence ... is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that [one] cannot clear it. [M.] 1864. GA LAWRENCE, Guy Livingstone, ch. ix. The third is... | |
 | Nimrod - Coaching (Transportation) - 1898 - 402 pages
...termed the bullfinch fence (still more common in these districts) is a quickset hedge of perhaps fifty years' growth, with a ditch on one side or the other, and so high and strong that horses cannot clear it. The sportsman, however, 1 Sir Bellingham Graham alone received... | |
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