 ... in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change-house in the...  Waverley novels. Parker's ed., revised - Страница 180по sir Walter Scott (bart [novels, collected]) - 1839Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Walter Scott - 1820 - 298 страници
...carabines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for...the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with convivality, conducted under his auspices. It will, of course, be supposed that the ladies of the country... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1823 - 396 страници
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 | William Hone - 1826 - 876 страници
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 | William Hone - 1827 - 858 страници
...seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of captain of the popingay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable chargehouse in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his... | |
 | Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 страници
...carbines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for...usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 410 страници
...carbines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for...usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under... | |
 | New elegant extracts, Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827 - 404 страници
...carbines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for...usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable change house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 422 страници
...carabines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for...the ladies of the country assembled to witness this gallant strife, those excepted who held the stricter tenets of puritanism, and would therefore have... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1829 - 420 страници
...carabines in rotation, at the distance of sixty or seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of Captain of the Popinjay for...most reputable change-house in the neighbourhood, where'the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under his auspices, and, if he was able to... | |
 | William Hone - 1830 - 868 страници
...seventy paces. He whose ball brought down the mark, held the proud title of captain of the popingay for the remainder of the day, and was usually escorted in triumph to the most reputable charge* house in the neighbourhood, where the evening was closed with conviviality, conducted under... | |
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