 | Luke Booker - 1799 - 138 pages
...two or three fettmg nets drawn one over another. \Vhen the dogs attempted to hunt, their eyes were fo blinded and hoodwinked that they could not proceed, but were obliged to lie down and fcrape the incumbrances from their faces with their fore-feet. — As the morning advanced, the fun... | |
 | William Bingley - 1805 - 622 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully that the whole face of the country seemed,...hood-winked that they could not proceed, but were compelled to lie down and scrape the incumbrances from their faces with their fore-feet ; so that,... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed,...scrape the incumbrances from their faces with their fore-feet ; so that, finding my sport interrupted, I returned home, musing in my mind on the oddness... | |
 | William Kirby, William Spence - 1818 - 552 pages
...cobweb drenched with dew, as if two or three setting-nets had been drawn one.«v«r the other. When his dogs attempted to hunt, their eyes were 'so blinded and hood-winked that they were obliged to lie down and scrape themselves. This appearance was followed by a most lovely day.... | |
 | 1819 - 188 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which, a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three setting nets drawn one over another When the dogs attempted to "hunt, their eyes were so blinded and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1820 - 636 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three setting nets drawn one over another. When the dogs attempted to hunt, their eyes were so blinded and... | |
 | Gilbert White - 1822 - 380 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully that the whole face of the country seemed,...eyes were so blinded and hoodwinked that they could hot proceed, but were obliged to lie down and scrape the incumbrances from their faces with their fore... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three setting nets, drawn one over another. When the dogs attempted to hunt, their eyes were so blinded and... | |
 | William Bingley - 1829 - 380 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed,...hood-winked that they could not proceed, but were compelled to lie down and scrape the incumbrances from their faces with their fore-feet ; so that,... | |
 | 1830 - 188 pages
...matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which, a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three selting nets drawn one over another. When the dogs attempted to hunt, their eyes were so blinded and... | |
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I found the stubbles and clover-grounds matted all over with a thick coat of cobweb, in the meshes of which a copious and heavy dew hung so plentifully, that the whole face of the country seemed, as it were, covered with two or three setting-nets drawn... 
