Fox Chase

Word FOX CHASE
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Ah me! never was that gallant boy to ride a fox-chase, or to take the place amongst the gentry of his country which his birth and genius had pointed out for him! ❋ Unknown (2006)

The turf and the fox-chase are his delights — the smoking-room at the ❋ Unknown (2006)

It was my aim to get well on the road before Early could collect these scattered forces, and as many of the officers had been in the habit of amusing themselves fox-hunting during the latter part of the winter, I decided to use the hunt as an expedient for stealing a march on the enemy, and had it given out officially that a grand fox-chase would take place on the 29th of February. ❋ David Widger (N/A)

In a word, he struck up a fox-chase: Lady Dainty's dog, Mr. Sippet, as she calls him, started and jumped out of his lady's lap, and fell a barking. ❋ George A. Aitken (N/A)

To draw patterns for ruffles, which I had not materials to make up; to play Pope Joan with the curate; to read a sermon to my aunt; or to be stuck down to an old spinet to strum my father to sleep after a fox-chase. ❋ Ontario. Ministry Of Education (N/A)

_ You seem to forget, Nelly, that I saw one wedding all through, and, indeed, bore as prominent a part in it as one of my downtrodden sex could aspire to; and as the Frenchman said, who went on an English fox-chase, _ "Une fois, c'est assez; _ I am ver 'satisfy." ❋ Various (N/A)

The English fox-chase, in point of danger to the riders and their horses, is nothing to this race for the bottle. ❋ Emerson Bennett (N/A)

Brown was puzzling himself to conceive how a fox-chase could take place among hills where it was barely possible for a pony, accustomed to the ground, to trot along, but where, quitting the track for half a yard’s breadth, the rider might be either bogged, or precipitated down the bank. ❋ Unknown (1917)

To draw patterns for ruffles, which I had not materials to make up; to play Pope Joan with the curate; to read a sermon to my aunt; or to be stuck down to an old spinet to strum my father to sleep a after fox-chase. ❋ Unknown (1909)

"I don't care nothin 'about that fox-chase," shouted Budlong, "You tell the court what you know about this case." ❋ James Tandy Ellis (1905)

Whilst I was in this situation, my lord Percy, the earl of Northumberland's eldest son, by an accident of losing his way after a fox-chase, was met by my father, about a mile from our house; he came home with him, only with a design of dining with us, but was so taken with me that he stayed three days. ❋ Unknown (1900)

The hand-to-hand conflicts, the duels with bayonets and swords and the clouds of smoke were probably heroic and picturesque before the age of rapid-fire guns, modern rifles, and smokeless ammunition, but here the field of battle resembled a country fox-chase with an exaggerated number of hunters, more than a representation of a battle of twenty-five years ago. ❋ Howard C. Hillegas (1895)

Only then did I understand how difficult is this fox-chase, for one may cut again and again at the creature and never strike him once. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

Vedras these mad Englishmen made the fox-chase three days in the week. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)

He had a loud, countrified voice in his normal speech, that gave an intimation of a habit of hallooing to hounds in a fox-chase, or calling the cattle on a thousand hills, but it had sunk to a mysterious undertone when he next spoke, expressive of the importance of the disclosure he was about to make. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)

Half-Way House on the new turnpike, and after the bull-fight a fox-chase. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)

An occasional fox-chase, horse-race, or a "stag party" at some outlying tavern, formed the sum of their dissipation; they sang, danced reels, and sometimes ran into little excesses through the stimulating sense of the trespass they were committing. ❋ Unknown (1872)

Our outriders were quick to remark and imitate the manoeuvre, and came flying after us with a vast deal of indiscriminate shouting; so that the fine, sober picture of a carriage and escort, that we had presented but a moment back, was transformed in the twinkling of an eye into the image of a noisy fox-chase. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

STIDMANN, a celebrated carver and sculptor of Paris at the times of the Restoration and Louis Philippe; Wenceslas Steinbock's teacher; he carved, for the consideration of seven thousand francs, a representation of a fox-chase on the ruby-set gold handle of a riding whip that Ernest de la Briere gave to Modeste Mignon. ❋ Anatole Cerfberr (1865)

He was as cheerful as he was spirited, frank and communicative in the society of friends, fond of the fox-chase and the dance, often sportive in his letters, and liked a hearty laugh. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

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