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Brevia Regis Edwardi III annus 24 in Sporting Mag. XVIII (1801) 27/1: They [...] forcibly took and carried a certain Nun, named Margaret de Everingham [...] exeuntes eam habitum religiosum et induentes eam robam viridem secularem – Anglice, Giving her a green gown. Sporting Mag. Dec. IX 164/1: And when death claims his due, like a merciless dun, / Let him bone me, who cares. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 99/1: Our Publisher, ‘who’ (as O’Keefe says), ‘knows a thing or two,’ thought to differ. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 105/1: Being ‘basketted’ [...] consists of a person being put into a large basket and drawn up to the roof of the Cock-pit for foul play. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 100/2: By the holy Shannon, if I had said as much, I should have been accused of making a bull. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 72/2: I am frequently much damaged before I have exhausted the contents of the fourth [bottle]. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 72/2: I never flich upon duty, so long as I can keep my post; but six or seven bottles to my own shares generally does me up. Sporting Mag. Dec. I 176/1: The fribble in office, by blockheads carest. Sporting Mag. Dec. I 175/1: Poor master Bobby too, released from school, / Hectors at home, and early learns no rules. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 50: We drank his health [...] in the genuine juice of Burgundy. Sporting Mag. Dec. I 124/1: A new Magazine of gaming, and cricketing, and hunting [...] and all the hole kit of them. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 105/1: ‘Throwing of stones’, or being ‘basketted’ for a Levant, are terms which we have no occasion to explain to a sportsman. Sporting Mag. Oct. I 15/1: I beat my last tagonist in a giffy, and made a mummy of him. ‘The Irish Angler’ in Sporting Mag. Dec. I 149/1: A smart show’r of rain falling, Pat, in a jiffey, / Crept under the arch of a bridge. Just in Time in Sporting Mag. Dec. I 160/2: Lord Oddly [...] marrying my dutiful little Augusta, with almost a plumb, to a foolish medical puppy. Sporting Mag. Nov. I 100/2: The rosey-gilled old tipler demanded the reason. Sporting Mag. Dec. I 160/1: He loved his bottle, and was rum when mellow. Sporting Mag. Dec. I 118/1: I am, Gentlemen, Your and the Public’s Servant, Tippy. Sporting Mag. Dec. I 124/1: Then I up and told her that I was resolved to take it in. Just in Time in Sporting Mag. Dec. I 160/2: Zookers, my Lady, this is but an ill return for all I have done to please you. Sporting Mag. July II 243/1: Comparisons of Drunkenness. As drunk as an owl. Sporting Mag. July II 221/1: The whip before, and the aggravating stimulus of the ginger behind (better understood by the appellation of ‘figging’). Sporting Mag. Aug. II 307/2: Mother Johnson, the King’s-place abbess, and one of the most notorious purveyors of that celebrated flesh-market. Sporting Mag. May II 97/2: The amiable Hibernian captain, who ‘blood and ’ounds’ was so anxious for a ‘little tilting bout in the field of honour’. Sporting Mag. Jan. I 224/1: On coming near to that [school] of music, on which is written ‘Ars Musica,’ a lady asked him what those words meant – ‘Bum-fiddle, to be sure, Madam,’ replied he. Sporting Mag. Nov. III 93/1: ‘Mine a—se in a ban-box’ (replied the Duke, in the language of a jockey). ‘I thought so,’ says Henley, ‘you make so sh—tten a figure.’. Sporting Mag. May II 117/2: ‘I fancied,’ said the Doctor, ‘there was something Athanasian in her looks [...] She seemed to be a Quicumque vult.’. Sporting Mag. Dec. III 145/2: It is a common trick played upon bagsters [...] when they are not generous enough to the servants in the inn. Sporting Mag. Nov. III 107/2: You beetle-headed fool! Sporting Mag. July II 232/1: You must expect to hear again from [...] your sporting friend and constant reader Benedict the married man.