“Your horse is blown,” said the man, with a complaisance seldom used in a hunting-field. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This was the principal domestic of the stranger — a man of trust and consequence — the same who, in the hunting-field, had accommodated ❋ Unknown (2008)
As long as they are pups, they should have their food given them near the nets, when these are being taken up,248 so that if from inexperience they should lose their way on the hunting-field, they may come back for it and not be altogether lost. ❋ Unknown (2007)
Duke of Argyle, that, sooner than submit to such an insult, she would make Scotland a hunting-field. ❋ Unknown (2007)
With regard to methods of procedure in the hunting-field, enough has been said. 355 But there are many benefits which the enthusiastic sportsman may expect to derive from this pursuit. 356 I speak of the health which will thereby accrue to the physical frame, the quickening of the eye and ear, the defiance of old age, and last, but not least, the warlike training which it ensures. ❋ Unknown (2007)
They should proceed to the hunting-field in silence, to prevent the hare, if by chance there should be one close by, from making off at the sound of voices. ❋ Unknown (2007)
A hundred years ago, the Abbe Parson, the clergyman who frequented the theatre, the tavern, the racecourse, the world of fashion, was no uncommon character in English society: his voice might be heard the loudest in the hunting-field; he could sing the jolliest song at the Rose or the Bedford Head, after the play was over at Covent ❋ Unknown (2006)
Look at a man in a hunting-field who has not been taught to ride as a boy. ❋ Unknown (2006)
All former delights of turf, mess, hunting-field, and gambling-table; all previous loves and courtships of milliners, opera-dancers, and the like easy triumphs of the clumsy military Adonis, were quite insipid when compared to the lawful matrimonial pleasures which of late he had enjoyed. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He assumed the sporting language with admirable enthusiasm — drove over to cover with a steppere — rode across countri like a good one — was splendid in the hunting-field in his velvet cap and Napoleon boots, and made the ❋ Unknown (2006)
Of one or two of the gentlemen Clive had made the acquaintance in the hunting-field; others he had met during his brief appearance in the London world. ❋ Unknown (2006)
A landed aristocracy, with a population of negroes to work their fields, and cultivate their tobacco and corn, had little other way of amusement than in the hunting-field, or over the cards and the punch-bowl. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Casting her eyes around, to see that no one was near us, she drew up her horse beneath a few birch-trees, which screened us from the rest of the hunting-field — “Do you see yon peaked, brown, heathy hill, having something like a whitish speck upon the side?” ❋ Unknown (2005)
He went there first with the young earl, who, then quite a boy, had had an ugly tumble from his pony in the hunting-field. ❋ Unknown (2004)
My reader, when chance has taken you into the hunting-field, has it ever been your lot to sit by on horseback, and watch the digging out of a fox? ❋ Unknown (2004)
It will occur now and again that a regular denizen of Westminster will get a fall in the political hunting-field, and have to remain about the world for a year or two without a seat. ❋ Unknown (2004)
“And your wisdom, perfect at all other times, breaks down in the hunting-field?” ❋ Unknown (2004)
But Runciman, who was often allowed by his lordship to say a few words to him in the hunting-field, had mentioned the circumstance. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Jones in the hunting-field rides at an impracticable fence because he is told ❋ Unknown (2004)
What if the new creditor should admire the estate as a hunting-field, as much as my Lord Grace of Buckingham seems to do, and should wish to kill a buck there in the summer season? ❋ Unknown (2004)
