| ALEXANDRA ANDTEWS - 1856 - 370 pages
...dressed up with fireworks over him, and turned loose with the man in the ground. Also a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the...tail. Note. — The doors will be opened at four, as the sports begin at five exactly, because the diversion will last long, and the days grow short."... | |
| 1878 - 612 pages
...and turned loose in the game-place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fireworks to be baited." Prizefighting, boxing-matches between women, and... | |
| John Adair - 1878 - 160 pages
...turned loose in the game-place ; a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him ; a bear to be let loose at the same time; and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail; a mad bull, dressed up with fireworks, to be baited." And even Canning and Peel opposed abolition of... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 660 pages
...and turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let loose at the same . time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed) up with "fireworks to be baited.' 1 Such amusements were min-j gled with prize-fighting,... | |
| William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1878 - 642 pages
...turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let looso at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fireworks to be baited.' 1 Such amusements were mingled with prize-fighting,... | |
| Alfred Hix Welsh - 1880 - 182 pages
...loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fire-works over him, a bear to be let loose ati the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fire-works to be baited.' Such amusements were mingled with prize-fighting,... | |
| Bayard Tuckerman - 1882 - 356 pages
...and turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fireworks over him, a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail, a mad bull dressed up with fireworks to be baited."3 Such amusements were interspersed with cockfighting,... | |
| Joseph Waddell Clokey - 1890 - 136 pages
...and turned loose in the game place, a dog to be dressed up with fire-works over him, a bear to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the bull's tail; a mad bull dressed up with fire-works to be baited." In 1712, in London, young men from the nobility... | |
| William Connor Sydney - 1891 - 384 pages
...dressed up with fireworks over him, and turned loose with the man in the ground. Also a bull to be let loose at the same time, and a cat to be tied to the...tail. Note. — The doors will be opened at four, as the sports begin at five exactly, because the diversion will last long, and the days grow short.... | |
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