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“I was so sick and faint, so overcome at the brutality of this fiendish sport, that I hardly heard the shouts of Bravo! bravo! and the fanfaronade of trumpets.... I do not know which astonished me the most, the strikingly curious, brilliant coup doeil, the dexterity of the men, the intrepidity of the animals, the miserable unfair play, or the pleasure of the spectators.”
—M. E. W. Sherwood (18261903)
“Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.”
—Bible: Hebrew Jacob, in Genesis, 27:11.
To his mother Rebekah, explaining how the blind Isaac might discover the ploy of his pretending to be Esau. Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. (25:27)
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