Such was our life in Cork-dining, drinking, dancing, riding steeple chases, pigeon shooting, and tandem driving-filling up any little interval that was found to exist between a late breakfast, and the time to dress for dinner; and here I hope I shall not be accused of a tendency to boasting, while I add, that among all ranks and degrees of men, and women too, there never was a regiment more highly in estimation than the 4th.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
Yet the most important part is not the fate of the individual child, but the behaviour of this nation-wide public which chases her into the swamps of fraud.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg
Then the chase, however fruitless, led, like other chases, into beautiful scenery, and formed an excuse for my visiting or revisiting many of the prettiest places in the county.
"The Lost Dahlia"
Mary Russell Mitford