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...line of carriages starting for the woods, and to see the participants in the sport, preceded by the grooms and outriders with a pack of forty hounds in the distance. Over a dusty road to a beautiful valley our route lay, and soon we were pleasantly situated on the brow of a hill commanding a view for miles about. Fully ten minutes elapsed, after the dogs were led into the woods, before the sign of a trail was struck, but suddenly the deep baying of the hounds gave all to understand that it had been found. Away went the hunting...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOX-HUNT. | 11/6/1874 | See Source »

Upon the alabaster brow of mine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

...Helicon's green brow; and from the seven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CYNICISM. | 4/10/1874 | See Source »

...would be pleasant for both speaker and hearer if this could be otherwise; if the orator, with only a scholar's preparation, could spring full-armed to life, like Minerva from the Thunderer's brow. We should then be spared the blunders and failures of the young orator in his eager and oft-times futile efforts for success; that crude-ness which, in the young orator as in the budding writer, may be called, by a metaphor as true as it is homely, "veal." But this is one of the things impossible. The little bird, seeing its parent flying from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "DEBATING." | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

...With her queenly brow and her sunburned hands

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR EXCHANGES. | 1/16/1874 | See Source »

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