The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 359
fall consequences; his eager eyes are fixedupon his game ; his lips are compressed;every muscle is strained to the utmost;and though one can see he is ready todrop from sheer exhaustion after hishard run, he does not hesitate, in onelast desperate effort to secure the prize,to dash into a stream,… … SMALL GARDEN WHITE that his name is defensible on the score that he and othersof his class are sailors prone to migrate, and are consequentlyoften found at sea, though we believe that the term is really acorruption of admirable. The Painted Lady (not necessarily an importation fromParis) is another…
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