Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1874-1874
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...course was a straight-away one, three miles in length. Precisely at three o'clock, as the starting-gun was fired, two thousand eight hundred and ninety-five oars were dipped simultaneously into the water with a unison that was truly grand...
...captain and English country gentleman. After a substantial supper and a bottle of Scotch ale he is ever a philosopher, with the tenets of Epicurus, and desires nothing better than a new lease of life, with permission to live on the Gurnet, with his dog and gun, and observe the revolution in thought which he foresees will take place within the next twenty-five years even among the fossilized inhabitants of old Plymouth. He informs us that game is plenty; and a brace of fat partridges hanging in the office, shot that day by a boy, serve to confirm...
...missed a really fair shot, that if they had had a dog they would have secured a large number of birds, etc., etc. The birds, they said, flew with surprising rapidity and a startling noise, and as they had always been told that it was dangerous to carry a gun on full cock, they really had not time to cock it and bring it to the shoulder before the birds had disappeared. These difficulties they had not foreseen, and could not exist in duck-shooting, which we determined to try that afternoon. But, alas for our high hopes, ducks there...
...beautiful afternoon of Wednesday, July 15, saw the grand stands at the foot of the course reasonably well filled with those taking an interest in the result of the Freshman and Single-Scull contests. After a long delay, the boom of the signal-gun from Snake Hill sent a thrill of expectation through the spectators. A few minutes later the starting-gun announced that the crews were off. No signals being used in this race, the position of the crews could not be ascertained till the last mile was entered upon, when the white shirts of Yale showed...
...right you vill notice a French ship a blowin' up, vith the materials on board a goin' con-trary to the laws of the attraction of gratification, and a goin' up instead of a comin' down, - all the result of the British waller. On the left a gun is a bustin', with nothink left a standin' within reach. In the foreground Lord Nelsing in the hagonies of death, and yet a-sayin' to the coxswain, who says, "Can I do anythink, Lord Nelsing?" says he. "Nothink," says his lordship, quite hearty-like, and dies. SCENE NO. 3: The Pelican...