 ... Margate races, and was very near being killed : I rode for a gentleman and won the heat so completely, that when I came into the starting-post, the other horses were near half a mile behind me, upon which near four hundred sailors, smugglers, fishermen,...  George Morland: His Life and Works - Seite lxviivon George Charles Williamson - 1907 - 199 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Sir Walter Gilbey, Edward William Dirom Cuming - 1907 - 524 Seiten
...near four hundred sailors, smugglers, fishermen, etc., set upon me with sticks, stones, waggoner's whips, fists, etc., and one man, an innkeeper here,...could not defend myself : the sounds I heard all where ; Kill him ! Strip him ! Throw him in the sea ! Cut off his large tail ! and a hundred other sentences... | |
 | Walter Shaw Sparrow - 1922 - 462 Seiten
...half a mile behind me, upon which near four hundred [Margate] sailors, smugglers, fishermen, etc., set upon me with sticks, stones, waggoners' whips,...horse. I could not defend myself. The sounds I heard were, Kill him ! Strip him ! Throw him in the sea ! Cut off his large tail ! and a hundred other sentences... | |
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