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Old and New London
… history knows, was passionately fond of dancing; in this sport she would occupy herself on rainy days in her palace, …
Old and New London
… writers that mentions cock-fighting, describing it as the sport of school-boys on Shrove Tuesday. The Cock-pit, it … and the master was the comptroller and director of the sport. From this time, at least, the diversion, however … crowned head, for the more magnificent celebration of the sport. It was prohibited, however, by one of the Acts of …
The Apprenticeship of a Mountaineer
… and hundreds of giraffes etc which he considers very lame sport. The development of muscle in him is prodigious, his …