 We had four piquers, dressed in military-shaped frock-coats of blue cloth, edged round with gold-coloured lace, blue trousers, and caps of orange-coloured cloth, with broad black velvet bands ; there was also a fifth man, who was, I believe, a valet-de-chambre,...  Domestic scenes in Russia, letters - Side 60av Richard Lister Venables - 1839 - 348 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
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...of a Meltonian after such " a burst I" " We had four piquers, dressed in military-shaped frock-coats of blue cloth, edged round with gold-coloured lace,...object being that the hounds should find hares in the cover, and drive them into the open ground, to be coursed by the greyhounds. In this manner they sometimes... | |
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...black velvet bands ; there was also a fifth man, who was, I believe, a valet-de-chambre, and who wa? dressed somewhat differently. All these were mounted...object being that the hounds should find hares in the cover, and drive them into the open ground, to be coursed by the greyhounds. In this manner they sometimes... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 sider
...endurance, though coarse-looking and email. ' We had four piqueurs dressed in military-shaped frock-coats of blue cloth, edged round with gold-coloured lace,...the covert and drive them into the open ground to he coursed by the greyhounds. In this manner they sometimes kill twenty in a day; they also kill foxes,... | |
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