 | Sebastiano Giustiniani - Great Britain - 1854 - 358 pages
...eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he may mean to take, and when one is tired, he mounts another,...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambled with the French hostages to the amount occasionally, it is said, ot from... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 626 pages
...is very fond of hunting, and never takes this diversion without tiring eight or ten horses. * * * * He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture.' — vol. ip 27. But a new defence to Mr. Capefigue's charge is brought to light by... | |
 | English literature - 1855 - 624 pages
...is very fond of hunting, and never takes this diversion without tiring eight or ten horses. * * * * He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is...the prettiest thing in the world to see him play, bis fair skin glowing through a shirt w the finest texture.'—vol. ip 27. But a new defence to Mr.... | |
 | George Richard Jesse - Dogs - 1866 - 486 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take ; and when one is tired...another, and before he gets home they are all exhausted." By this it is clear that the idea of the use of "a second horse" in the field is not exclusively due... | |
 | John Langton Sanford - Great Britain - 1872 - 568 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take ; and when one is tired he mounts another, and before he goes home they are all exhausted. He is extremely fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest... | |
 | Julian Marshall - Tennis - 1878 - 330 pages
...Sebastian Giustiniani (5) describes him (1519) as " extremely fond of Tennis, at which game it was the prettiest thing in the world to see him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambled with the French hostages to the amount occasionally, it has been said, of... | |
 | Julian Marshall - Tennis - 1878 - 308 pages
...Sebastian Giustiniani (5) describes him (1519) as " extremely fond of Tennis, at which game it was the prettiest thing in the world to see him play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture. He gambled with the French hostages to the amount occasionally, it has been said, of... | |
 | Cunningham Geikie - Reformation - 1879 - 542 pages
...and sometimes five on other days. In hunting he tires eight or ten horses in succession. He is very fond of tennis, at which game it is the prettiest...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture." Pasqualigo describes him as " the very handsomest potentate I ever set eyes upon ;... | |
 | William Hickman S. Aubrey - 1878 - 734 pages
...diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take; and when one is tired...play, his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture." To the same purport is an account written in 1515, by the Venetian Pasqualigo: —... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - Education of princes - 1883 - 566 pages
...after describing his passion for field sports : ' He was also fond of tennis, at which game it was the prettiest thing in the world to see him play ; his fair skin glowing through a shirt of the finest texture.' — Col. of Slat. Papers ( Venetian), vol. ii. p. 559. In the Privy Purse Expenses... | |
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He is very fond of hunting, and never takes his diversion without tiring eight or ten horses, which he causes to be stationed beforehand along the line of country he means to take, and when one is tired he mounts another, and before he gets home they... 
