 | William Jardine - 1866 - 422 pagina’s
...information regarding the stock in the other parks. The mode of killing these cattle, Mr Bewick remarks, " was perhaps the only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting. On notice heing given that a wild hull would he killed on a certain day, the inhahitants of the neighhourhood... | |
 | William Howitt - 1888 - 412 pagina’s
...them further; for there is little doubt but in two or three times more they would make an attack. " The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only modern...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... | |
 | James Wilson - 1909 - 168 pagina’s
...short distance, that most people think it prudent to leave them, not chusing to provoke them further. " The mode of killing them was perhaps the only modern...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1806 - 804 pagina’s
...that in a few .turns more they would make an attack. The The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting....certain day, the inhabitants of the neighbourhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. sometimes to the amount of a hundred horse, aud four or five hundred... | |
 | Thomas Green Fessenden - 1823 - 432 pagina’s
...distance, that people think it most prudent to leave them, not choosing to provoke them further. " The mode of killing them, was, perhaps, the only modern...notice being given that a wild bull would be killed on a certain day, the inhabitants of the neighborhood came mounted, and armed with guns, &c. ; sometimes... | |
 | Philip Dixon Hardy - 1836 - 442 pagina’s
...and severely maimed by a wounded bull. * * " The mode of killing these cattle, Mr. Bewick remarks, ' was perhaps the only modern remains of the grandeur...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... | |
 | William Jardine - 1833 - 434 pagina’s
...information regarding the stock in the other parks. The mode of killing these cattle, Mr Bewick remarks, " was perhaps the only modern remains of the grandeur...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... | |
 | Rogerson and Tuxford - 1852 - 624 pagina’s
...Chillingham cattle had nearly or altogether ceased before 1720, when it is described in these terms:— "The mode of killing them was, perhaps, the only modern...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... | |
 | 1790 - 540 pagina’s
...doubt but in two or three turns they would make an attack. " The mode of killing them was perhaps tlrc only modern remains of the grandeur of ancient hunting...:— On notice being' given that a wild bull would be kil\iA on a certain day, the inhabitants cf •the neighbourhood came inounttJ, and fnned with guns,... | |
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The mode of killing them was perhaps the only modern 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... 
