10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RIDE TO HOUNDS»
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Let me begmy young friend notto be found among this odious crowd of marplots.
His business is to ride to hounds; and let him do so fromthebeginning of therun,
persevering through itall, takingno mean advantages, and allowing himself to be
...
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Sporting Magazine: Or, Monthly Calendar of the Transactions ...
It is a remarkable fact, and a striking proof of the difficulty attending it, that barring
Leicestershire, there are not, in other countries, more than half a score men,
calling themselves sportsmen, and well mounted, who can ride to hounds ; —
that is ...
Everett Lake Crawford. when the hounds, huntsman or either whip proclaim the
fox, it is the duty of the whip nearest the point where hounds have gone away to
go along with the hounds, even if the huntsman is not there. The other whip, be
he ...
Everett Lake Crawford, 1929
4
Hunting - Philosophy for Everyone: In Search of the Wild Life
But, again, I was only just beginning to learn what those who ride to hounds have
known for generations. Yoi-Over, an ex-Huntsman writing in the early twentieth
century, explains the effect that the music of hounds, or the “Bells of the Chase,” ...
5
Rajpal Dictionary Of English Idioms & Phrases
... top echelons in the civil services do ride the high horse * After his promotion,
the executive engineer has begun to ride the high horse Ride to hounds: Take
part in fox hunting * They have chalked out a programme to ride to hounds
tomorrow ...
The English caricaturists always assumed that a Frenchman could not ride to
hounds or enjoy English hunting. It did not seem to occur to them that all the
people who founded English hunting were Frenchmen. All the Kings and nobles
who ...
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1969
7
Leaves from a hunting diary in Essex
Hardly any one going out with hounds gave cause for some grumbling on the
part of farmers. Very little pleasure, if any, could be extracted from an attempt to
ride to hounds before the heavy, soaking rains which commenced falling in
October.
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The New Sporting Magazine
That it never had its equal in advantages to hounds, and facilities to horsemen
who can ride to hounds, is a fact too well known to dwell upon ; but that
Leicestershire now, is not what Leicestershire was, is also a truth and a lamented
one.
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The Tyranny of the Countryside
I know that a number of well-to-do farmers ride to hounds, and that they are loud
in their praises at the Rent dinner of the Master of the Hounds and his friends.
The M.F.H. will respond by telling how the Duke of Wellington attached so much ...
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The Sporting magazine; or Monthly calendar of the ...
... a few bamboo wattled fences, too tough to give way, must be cleared ; and the
hounds go a mile in three minutes. A general dispersing of the Field takes place,
and now you may see who can ride to hounds. Some shuffle through the jungle, ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RIDE TO HOUNDS»
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Tristram Hunt: 'Fox hunting vote is not an issue of class'
And few were keener advocates than Engels, the Marxist mill-owner and co-author of the Communist Manifesto, who liked to ride to hounds just up the M6. «Stoke Sentinel, Jul 15»
