 The people now dragged us above forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer, I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds.  The book of adventure and peril - Side 374af Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1875Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Sydney Smith - 1877 - 626 sider
...dragged us above forty yards on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked, how I managed to keep my...hunted some years with Lord Darlington's foxhounds." — (pp. 231, 232.) The Yorkshire gentlemen have long been famous for their equestrian skill, but Mr.... | |
 | James Simson - 1880 - 94 sider
...dragged us above forty yards- on the sand : it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. Should it be asked, how I managed to keep my...cayman gave in, and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore feet in the position I had held them.... | |
 | Anthony Trollope - 1880 - 514 sider
...inland, rope might b1 would have bee down to the rej the cayman. . . "The people forty yards' on t I — I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds....cayman gave in, and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore feet in the position I had held them.... | |
 | Robert Southey - 1880 - 728 sider
...reptile's fore-legs on his back by main force, and using them us a bridle. " Should it be asked," he says, "how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer, I...hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-hounds." There is a translation of this ballad by Bilderdijk, published in his " Krekelzangen," 1822, vol. ii.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - 856 sider
...it wns the first and last time I was ever on a c.'iyninn's back. Should it l>e asked how I m»n»ged to keep my seat, I would answer, I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-buuuds. The cayman, killed and stuffed, was also added to the curiosities of Walton Hall. Mr. Waterton's... | |
 | Thomas Hughes - 1882 - 220 sider
...more perilous than Arion's marine merning ride : — " Delphinl insidens vada aerola snleat Arion." to keep my seat, I would answer, —I hunted some...cayman gave in, and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore feet in the position I had held them.... | |
 | Charles Waterton - 1882 - 72 sider
...more perilous than Arion's marine morning ride : — " DelphinI Insidens vada czrnli snleat Arlon." to keep my seat, I would answer, —I hunted some years with Lord Darlington's fox-honnds. After repeated attempts to regain his liberty, the cayman gave in, and became tranquil... | |
 | 1882 - 376 sider
...going down to the regions under water with him. We were dragged forty yards inland. Should it be (isked how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer — I hunted some years ago with Lord Darlington's foxhounds. "When by exhanstion he became a little tranquil, I managed to... | |
 | William Smith (F.S.A.S.) - 1882 - 386 sider
...going down to the regions under water with him. We were dragged forty yards inland. Should it be ;isked how I managed to keep my seat, I would answer — I hunted some years ago with Lord Darlington's foxhounds. When by exhaustion he became a little tranquil, I managed to... | |
 | 1883 - 456 sider
...us about forty feet on the sand ; it was the first and last time I was ever on a cayman's back. 12. After repeated attempts to regain his liberty, the...cayman gave in, and became tranquil through exhaustion. I now managed to tie up his jaws, and firmly secured his fore-feet in the position I had held them.... | |
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