Word: jockeying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hounds gave all to understand that it had been found. Away went the hunting-party over fences, ditches, and stone-walls, more after the manner of a steeple-chase than a fox-hunt. The gentlemen were easily distinguished, for the most part, by their red waistcoats and jockey caps, the ladies (for there were four) by their black dress and hat. Along the fields to the woods they move, and soon emerge on the other side just in sight. Here the trail seemed for a moment lost, but was found stretching back to the other side of the road within...