The miner's job would be as much beyond my power as it would be to perform on a flying trapeze or to win the grand national.
Greece and Rome, it is true, still had a grand national sentiment.
I see there's an objection to Monkey-tricks for the grand national.
He said, “Will any gentleman read the names of the horses for the grand national?”
The grand national is always the great event of the chasing year.
In England the winners of the "grand national" have had no pedigree to speak of, and have failed upon the track.
All was animation and interest, as if some grand national spectacle were about to take place.
Let us not fall from our high estate by debasing a grand national power in a triumph over a civilization inferior to our own.
Have a little paper pamphlet of rules based on those of the grand national, or any well-known club founded on those principles.
Look at that list which has just come out after our grand national struggle at Cambridge.