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Definition of Steeplechases
1. steeplechase [n] - See also: steeplechase
Lexicographical Neighbors of Steeplechases
Literary usage of Steeplechases
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Steeple-chasing by William Charles Arlington Blew (1901)
"Among sundry minor events Mr. Richardson won, in 1869, at the Aylesbury "Aristocratic"
steeplechases, on Sir William Milner's Cora Pearl, in a match against ..."
2. Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the by Henry Anderson Bryden (1893)
"OUR steeplechases Trying the new horses—Gun practice—Michael ... idea of
steeplechases—Making the course—Preliminary trials—Knox and ..."
3. Fifty Years of My Life in the World of Sport at Home and Abroad by John Dugdale Astley (1895)
"... —Ennismore and Fraser arrive 27th of October—Explosion of the Siege-train
Store—Visit the Scene the next Day—steeplechases—I tackle Billy Russell—Urgent ..."
4. Recollections of Old Country Life: Social, Political, Sporting & Agricultural by John Kersley Fowler (1894)
"... and Ned Enoch—Charlie and George Symonds—Joe Tollit—Perrin's old horse
Phoenix—The Pratt Club—And Grand National Hunt steeplechases — Over Prebenda! ..."
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