 | George Vasey - Bison - 1857 - 218 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given, that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed with guns, &c., sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls or... | |
 | William Howitt - Country life - 1888 - 412 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed with guns, etc., sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls,... | |
 | James Wilson - Cattle - 1909 - 168 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted and armed with guns, etc., sometimes to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1806 - 804 pages
...perhaps, the modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given, that a wild bull would be killed upon a certain day, the inhabitants...neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, aud four or five hundred toot, who stood upon walls or... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836 - 442 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. and sometimes to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls,... | |
 | Rogerson and Tuxford - 1852 - 624 pages
...modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c., sometimes to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls or... | |
 | William Jardine - Birds - 1833 - 434 pages
...remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. and sometimes to the amount of an hundred horse, and four or five hundred foot, who stood upon walls,... | |
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... the Bull from the rest of the herd, until he stood at bay ; when a marksman dismounted and shot. At some of these huntings twenty or thirty... 
