"What Sir Robert is there at Norfolk?
Is he one of the newly arrived army-gentlemen ?" "The General meant Norfolk at home, madam, not Norfolk in Virginia," said Colonel Washington.

"Mr.Braddock had been talking of a visit to Sir Robert Walpole, who lived in that county, and of the great hunts the old Minister kept there, and of his grand palace, and his pictures at Houghton.

I should like to see a good field and a good fox-chase at home better than any sight in the world," the honest sportsman added with a sigh.
"Nevertheless, there is good sport here, as I was saying," said young Esmond, with a sneer.
"What sport ?" cries the other, looking at him.
"Why, sure you know, without looking at me so fiercely, and stamping your foot, as if you were going to charge me with the foils.

Are you not the best sportsman of the country-side?
Are there not all the fish of the field, and the beasts of the trees, and the fowls of the sea--no--the fish of the trees, and the beasts of the sea--and the--bah! You know what I mean.

I mean shad, and salmon, and rock-fish, and roe-deer, and hogs, and buffaloes, and bisons, and elephants, for what I know.