 | Enos Bronson - 1809 - 458 páginas
...had go' off, had not the Highlanders, by their skill in hunting, fallen upon я stratagem, to cut off the rear from the main body. It was of those that had been separated, that the queen';: dogs, and those of the nobility, mn<!e slaughter. There was kiikd that t!ay three hundred... | |
 | Edward Burt - 1822 - 394 páginas
...had not the Highlanders by their skill in hunting fallen upon a stratagem to cut off the rear irom the main body. It was of those that had been separated...nobility made slaughter. There were killed that day 360 deer, with 5 wolves, and some roes."—Pennant's Scotland, To!, iii. 64, 65. . friends are waiting... | |
 | James Mitchell - 1825 - 798 páginas
...tii • Highlanders by their skill in hunting, fallen upon a stratagem to cut olf the rear from rtie main body. It was of those that had been separated that the queen's do<r* and those of the bility made «laughter. There were killed that SBO deer, witlv-5 wolve», and... | |
 | 1830 - 482 páginas
...cut off the rear from thf main body. It was of those that had been separated tint the queen's dog« and those of the nobility made slaughter. There were killed that day three hundred and sixty »i*"rr, with five wolves, and some roes." We are by no means very partial to the music of the bagpipe... | |
 | Berwickshire Naturalists' Club (Scotland) - 1857 - 526 páginas
...had got off, had not the Highlanders, by their skill in hunting, fallen upon a stratagem, to cut off the rear from the main body. It was of those that...were killed that day three hundred and sixty deer, five wolves, and some roes. The Queen and her party returned to Blair, delighted with the sport."*... | |
 | James Logan - 1831 - 470 páginas
...had got off, had not the Highlanders, by their skill in hunting, fallen upon a stratagem to cut off the rear from the main body. It was of those that...nobility made slaughter. There were killed that day 360 deer, with 5 wolves, and some roes."' When a single deer was wanted, the gamekeeper and a few assistants... | |
 | James Logan - 1833 - 556 páginas
...had got off, had not the Highlanders, by their skill in hunting, fallen upon a stratagem to cut off the rear from the main body. It was of those that...nobility made slaughter. There were killed that day 360 deer, with 5 wolves, and some roes."* When a single deer was wanted, the gamekeeper and a few assistants... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1834 - 394 páginas
...had got off, had not the Highlanders, by their skill in hunting, fallen upon a stratagem to cut off the rear from the main body. It was of those that...and sixty deer, with five wolves, and some roes." Of this species of hunting, called the tenchel, Sir Walter Scott has given us an admirable description... | |
 | Frederic Shoberl - 1834 - 330 páginas
...had got off had not the highlanders, by their skill in hunting, fallen upon a stratagem to cut off the rear from the main body. It was of those that...hundred and sixty deer, with five wolves and some roes." With the progress of civilization and agricultural improvement, the number of red deer in Great Britain... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1858 - 672 páginas
...had got off had not the Highlanders, by their skill in hunting, fallen upon a stratagem to cut off the rear from the main body. It was of those that...and sixty deer, with five wolves and some roes."* In a future paper I propose to enter fully upon the subject of similar grand chases in Ireland. From... | |
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... heath, and to allow the deer to pass over them. It was told the queen that several of the Highlanders had been wounded, and that two or three had been killed outright; and the whole body had got off, had not the Highlanders, by their skill in hunting,... 
