 | Peter Beckford - 1802 - 50 trang
...miles the soonest ; notwithstanding the hounds, .separately, may not run so fast as many others. A pack of hounds, considered in a collective body, go fast,...noses, and the head they carry ; as that traveller generally gets soonest to his journey's end who stops least upon the road.—Some hounds that I have... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 806 trang
...faslest, though the hounds taken separately might be considerably inferior to others in swiftness. A pack of hounds, considered in a collective body, go fast...excellence of their noses and the head they carry. Packs composed of hounds of various kinds seldom run well. When the packs are very large the hounds... | |
 | William Hamilton Maxwell - 1833 - 640 trang
...the hounds taken separately might be considerably inferior to others in point of swiftness. A pack of hounds considered in a collective body, go fast...excellence of their noses and the head they carry. Pack» composed of hounds of various kinds seldom run well. When the packs are very large, the hounds... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1843 - 266 trang
...miles the soonest ; notwithstanding the hounds, separately, may not run so fast as many others. A pack of hounds, considered in a collective body, go fast...noses, and the head they carry; as that traveller generally gets soonest to his journey's end who stops least upon the road. Some hounds that I have... | |
 | John Mills - 1845 - 498 trang
...; and yet their running was sufficiently even to pull down their fox in superlative style. A pack, considered in a collective body, go fast in proportion...excellence of their noses, and the head they carry. The pack that can run a given distance in the shortest time may be said to go fastest ; though the... | |
 | Thomas Burgeland Johnson - 1848 - 1102 trang
...the shortest period, notwithstanding the hounds separately may not run so fast as many others. A pack of hounds, considered in a collective body, go fast...excellence of their noses and the head they carry : — hence a perfect foxhound should be equally remarkable for speed, for exquisite sense of smell,... | |
 | Nimrod - 1863 - 468 trang
...miles the soonest, notwithstanding the hounds separately may not run so fast as many others. A pack of hounds, considered in a collective body, go fast...least upon the road. Some hounds that I have hunted with would creep all through the same hole, though they might have leaped the hedge ; and would follow... | |
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A great excellence in a pack of hounds is the head they carry; and that pack may be said to go the fastest that can run ten miles the soonest; notwithstanding the hounds separately, may not run so fast as many others. A pack of hounds, considered in a... 