The Terrific Register: Or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences, and Calamities ...Sherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... asked pardon for the calumnious expressions which he had used , since his confinement , against the archbishop of Paris ; acknowledging them to be false and groundless ; declared that his wife and daughter were entirely innocent , and ...
... asked pardon for the calumnious expressions which he had used , since his confinement , against the archbishop of Paris ; acknowledging them to be false and groundless ; declared that his wife and daughter were entirely innocent , and ...
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... asked him how he did , and whether he was not troubled in conscience for cutting off the king's head ? Brandon replied . " Yes , because he was at the king's trial , and heard the sentence denounced against him , which caused the said ...
... asked him how he did , and whether he was not troubled in conscience for cutting off the king's head ? Brandon replied . " Yes , because he was at the king's trial , and heard the sentence denounced against him , which caused the said ...
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... asked his name , and he no sooner replied , than the Jury , without hearing either the indictment or the evidence , pro- nounced him guilty , and sentenced him to die . He was then remanded to prison . The whole of the night he spent in ...
... asked his name , and he no sooner replied , than the Jury , without hearing either the indictment or the evidence , pro- nounced him guilty , and sentenced him to die . He was then remanded to prison . The whole of the night he spent in ...
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... asked , they could tell how long she went without victuals . I then asked her to get the other girls not to say how long she had been kept without food ; but this , she replied , would be useless , as it would be discovered on opening ...
... asked , they could tell how long she went without victuals . I then asked her to get the other girls not to say how long she had been kept without food ; but this , she replied , would be useless , as it would be discovered on opening ...
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... asked him whether there were any Spaniards in heaven ? " Yes , says the friar , ' tis full of them . " " Nay then , said the Indian , " I had rather go to hell than have any more of their company . " MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM THE ...
... asked him whether there were any Spaniards in heaven ? " Yes , says the friar , ' tis full of them . " " Nay then , said the Indian , " I had rather go to hell than have any more of their company . " MIRACULOUS ESCAPE FROM THE ...
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Страница 482 - ... all night. Although happy in having escaped from the Indians, his situation was still dreadful; he was completely naked, under a burning sun ; the soles of his feet were...
Страница 481 - ... their traps at night, and took them up early in the morning, remaining concealed during the day. They were examining their traps early one morning, in a creek about six miles from that branch of the Missouri called Jefferson's Fork, and were ascending in a canoe, when they suddenly heard a great noise, resembling the trampling of animals ; but they could not ascertain the fact, as the high perpendicular banks on each side of the river impeded their view. Colter immediately pronounced it to be...
Страница 102 - ... aloud, unable to contain himself. I could not hear what he said, but he went backward two or three steps and fell down in a swoon. The buriers ran to him and took him up, and in a little while he came to himself, and they led him away to the...
Страница 37 - and said no more, but repeated those words continually, with a voice and countenance full of horror, a swift pace ; and nobody could ever find him to stop or rest, or take any sustenance, at least that ever I could hear of. I met this poor creature several times in the streets, and would have spoke to him, but he would not enter into speech with me or any one else, but held on his dismal cries continually.
Страница 258 - My wife, either frozen with fear, or aware of the danger attending any attempt to fly, remained motionless in her place, while the children took refuge in her lap. The cry they uttered attracted my attention, and I hastened towards the door ; but my astonishment may well be conceived, when I found the entrance to it barred in such a way.
Страница 102 - ... the buriers immediately gathered about him, supposing he was one of those poor delirious or desperate creatures that used to pretend, as I have said, to bury themselves. He said nothing...
Страница 110 - Having groped his passage to the horizontal part of the den, the most terrifying darkness appeared in front of the dim circle of light afforded by his torch ; it was silent as the house of death ; none but monsters of the desert had ever before explored this solitary mansion of horror.
Страница 37 - ... was originally raised by the follies of some people who got money by it, that is to say, by printing predictions and prognostications, I know not; but certain it is, books frighted them terribly; such as Lilly's Almanack, Gadbury's Astrological Predictions, Poor Robin's Almanack, and the like; also several pretended religious books, one entitled, " Come out of Her my People, lest you be partaker of her Plagues "; another called, "Fair Warning"; another, Britain's "Remembrancer," and many such...
Страница 110 - The aperture of the den on the east side of a very high ledge of rocks is about two feet square. From thence it descends obliquely fifteen feet; then running horizontally about ten more, it ascends gradually sixteen feet towards its termination.
Страница 249 - Jennings, whom they found fast asleep ; his pockets were searched, and from one of them was drawn a purse containing exactly nineteen guineas, which the gentleman identified. Jennings was dragged out of bed and charged with the robbery. He denied it most solemnly ; but the facts having been deposed to on oath by the gentleman and Mr Brunell, he was committed for trial. So strong did the circumstances appear against Jennings, that several of his friends advised him to plead guilty, and throw himself...