Grissell

Hannah Grissell, a PR executive for Racing For Change as well as a 7lb-claiming amateur rider, may need to open the minds of a few dinosaurs in the weighing room as well as convincing the racing public in her day job.

Tattenham Corner 2011

Grissell, the daughter of trainers Gardie and Diana, had a depressing afternoon at Plumpton on Monday when she had to pull up her horse Downe Payment in a handicap hurdle.

Tattenham Corner 2011

We then took possession of the hoarding in Trafalgar Square; but Messrs. Grissell and Peto would not allow us to post our bills on the said hoarding without paying them — and from first to last we paid upwards of two hundred pounds for that hoarding, and likewise the hoarding of the Reform Club-house, Pall

Reprinted Pieces 2007

We put it to the patriotism of members of Parliament, whether they ought not immediately to throw themselves into the arms of Peto and Grissell, with an enthusiastic demand for tools.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 16, 1841 Various

In 1646 the Huntingdonshire witch, Joane Wallis, said that Blackman 'told her he would send one Grissell and Greedigut to her, that shall do any thing for her.

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

Keiston said [that the Devil came to her] and shee asked what his name was, and he said his name was Blackeman, and asked her if she were poore, and she said I; then he told her he would send one Grissell and

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

And after Blackman was departed from her, within three or four dayes, Grissell and

The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

In March 1599 the theatrical manager Philip Henslowe endeavoured to induce a publisher who had secured a playhouse copy of the comedy of _Patient Grissell_ by

A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892

The songs of _Patient Grissell_, which are pretty certainly Dekker's, have been noticed already.

A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

H--- left on Saturday for Gland -- and yesterday, to the terror of Grissell {5} and all the Papal Court, I appeared in the front rank of the pilgrims in the Vatican, and got the blessing of the Holy Father -- a blessing they would have denied me.

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877