The Terrific Register: Or, Record of Crimes, Judgments, Providences, and Calamities ...Sherwood, Jones, and Company, 1825 |
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... hand , with great earnestness and composure . The executioner then proceeded to pinch him in the arms , thighs , and breast , with red - hot pincers ; and Damiens , at every pinch , shrieked in the same manner as he had done when his hand ...
... hand , with great earnestness and composure . The executioner then proceeded to pinch him in the arms , thighs , and breast , with red - hot pincers ; and Damiens , at every pinch , shrieked in the same manner as he had done when his hand ...
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... hand were also discoloured ; he lost two of them . It is remarkable , that during all the time of this misfortune ... hands . The eldest girl had a superficial ulcer in one thigh . The rest of the family were pretty well . The stumps of ...
... hand were also discoloured ; he lost two of them . It is remarkable , that during all the time of this misfortune ... hands . The eldest girl had a superficial ulcer in one thigh . The rest of the family were pretty well . The stumps of ...
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... hand , and he was heard to give loud shrieks , not such as are given by those who suffer from bodily pain , but the ... hands , and reproaching him with a number of bitter recollections . Yet these were the very persons who , but a few ...
... hand , and he was heard to give loud shrieks , not such as are given by those who suffer from bodily pain , but the ... hands , and reproaching him with a number of bitter recollections . Yet these were the very persons who , but a few ...
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... hand through the wicket by which the food of the prisoners is introduced , and let a small billet fall within ; then , having shut both the doors , he retired with the guards and the alcaide . Esteven snatched this billet as the ...
... hand through the wicket by which the food of the prisoners is introduced , and let a small billet fall within ; then , having shut both the doors , he retired with the guards and the alcaide . Esteven snatched this billet as the ...
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... hand from the print of a right hand , in such a case ? ' -Witness . It is hard to describe ; but if it please that honourable judge to put his left hand upon your left hand , you cannot possibly put your right hand in the same posture ...
... hand from the print of a right hand , in such a case ? ' -Witness . It is hard to describe ; but if it please that honourable judge to put his left hand upon your left hand , you cannot possibly put your right hand in the same posture ...
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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...