| Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1821 - 280 pages
...Bengal, who had been a long time very successful in hunting the tiger ; his skill gained him great eclat, and had insured him much diversion, at length...then relinquished the sport, with this observation : " Tiger hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger, but it is rather awkward when... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1824 - 300 pages
...who had heen a long time very successful in hunting the tiger. His skill gained him grcnt eclal, and insured him much diversion ; at length he narrowly...with his life; he then relinquished the sport, with lhis ohservation: " Tiger hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger, hut it is rather... | |
| Agriculture - 1825 - 538 pages
...who had been a long •time very successful in hunting the tiger ; his skill gained him great éclat, and had insured him much diversion ; at length he narrowly escaped with his lile; he then relinquished the sport, with this observation : " Tiger hunting is very fine amusement,... | |
| 1828 - 488 pages
...successful in hunting the tiger ; his skill gained him great eclat, and had insured him much diver. sion ; at length he narrowly escaped with his life. He then...very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger ; but it is rather awkward when the tiger takes it into his head to hunt us." THE first time that a... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1828 - 336 pages
...had?been a long time very successful in 1 1 unting the tiger. His skill gained him great eclat, and insured him much diversion ; at length he narrowly...then relinquished the sport, with this observation: " Tiger hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger, but it is rather awkward when... | |
| 1850 - 428 pages
...been a long time very successful in hunting the tiger. His skill gained him great eclat, and ensured him much diversion ; at length he narrowly escaped...then relinquished the sport, with this observation : " Tiger hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger ; but it is rather awkward when... | |
| Charles Caleb Colton - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1836 - 494 pages
...been a long time very successful in hunting the tiger. His skill gained him great eclat, and ensured him much diversion ; at length he narrowly escaped...then relinquished the sport, with this observation : ' Tiger hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger ; but it is rather awkward when... | |
| 1841 - 404 pages
...who bad been a long time very successful in hunting the tiger. His skill gained him great eclat, and insured him much diversion; at length he narrowly...then relinquished the sport, with this observation: "Tiger hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger, but it is rather awkward when... | |
| James Robert Boyd - English language - 1852 - 364 pages
...who had been a long time very successful in hunting the tiger. His skill gained him great eclat, and insured him much diversion ; at length he narrowly...then relinquished the sport with this observation : ' Tiger hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger, but it is rather awkward when... | |
| Epes Sargent - American literature - 1857 - 488 pages
...who had been a long time very successful in hunting the tiger ; his skill gained him great dclat," and had insured him much diversion ; at length he...sport, with this observation : ' Tiger-hunting is very fine amusement, so long as we hunt the tiger ; but it is rather awkward when the tiger takes it... | |
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