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" ... bustle of the scene in confidence that prosperity was awaiting his venture. Chance, however, did not befriend him, as we have already had occasion to show, although it is more than probable, that had he remained at home to manage his own affairs,... "
Our Island: Comprising Forgery, a Tale; and The Lunatic, a Tale ... - Page 226
by Humphry William Woolrych - 1833
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A Westmorland Village: The Story of the Old Homesteads and "statesman ...

S. H. Scott - 1904 - 290 pages
...time, so that thirty-one cocks are inhumanly murdered for the sport and pleasures of the spectators." It has been said, although we cannot vouch for the fact, that in the early years of the nineteenth century, the custom was continued here of cock-fighting at Shrovetide,...
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