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" Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one; Contracting, like a dying taper, all His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now poor Norfolk, having lost his... "
The Compleat Gamester: In Three Parts ... - Page 289
by Esq. Richard Seymour - 1754 - 324 pages
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The London Magazine, Volume 6

1822 - 694 pages
...this fit, When Norfolk cock had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one ; Contracting, like...His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now poor Norfolk,...
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Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the ...

Pierce Egan - Amusements - 1832 - 426 pages
...this fit, When Norfolk cock had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one ; Contracting, like...His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind, And now poor Norfolk,...
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Pierce Egan's Book of Sports, and Mirror of Life: Embracing the Turf, the ...

Pierce Egan - Sports - 1832 - 432 pages
...this At, When Norfolk cock had got the best ofit And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' sober, but might venture sev'n to one ; Contracting, like...dying taper, all His strength, intending with the blow tofaUV He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now...
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The Poetry of Sport

Hedley Peek - English poetry - 1901 - 530 pages
...had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Though sober, but might venture seven to one, Contracting, like a dying Taper, all His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and having taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind. And now poor Norfolk,...
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The Gaming Table: Its Votaries and Victims, in All Times and ..., Volume 2

Andrew Steinmetz - Gambling - 1870 - 462 pages
...had got the best of it, And Wisbich lay a dying, so that none, Tho' Sober, but might venture Seven to One ; Contracting, like a dying taper, all His strength, intending with the blow to fall, He struggles up, and Laving taken wind, Ventures a blow, and strikes the other blind ! ' And now poor...
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