 | 1839 - 776 lapas
...quick succession that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die, — and joked too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. With...spot. It was very dark ; why didn't they bring a light 1 The cell had been built for many years — scores of men must have passed their last hours there... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 630 lapas
...them. He had seen some of them die—and joked too, because they died with prayers upon their Нрэ. With what a rattling noise the drop went down ; and...clothes ! Some of them might have inhabited that very cell—sat upon that very spot. It was very dark ; why did'nt they bring a light ? The cell had been... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1843 - 452 lapas
...quick succession that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die, — and joked too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. 'With what a rattling noise the drop went down ; and bow suddenly they changed from strong and vigorous men to dangling heaps of clothes! Some of them might... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1846 - 380 lapas
...quick succession, that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die,—and had joked too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. With...clothes ! Some of them might have inhabited that very cell—sat upon that very spot. It was very dark ; why didn't they bring a light ? The cell had been... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1849 - 808 lapas
...such quick succession that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die — and joked too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. With...The cell had been built for many years — scores of raen must have passed their last hours there — it was like sitting in a vault strewn with dead bodies... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1872 - 194 lapas
...quick succession that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die — aud had joked, too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. With...went down ! and how suddenly they changed from strong aud vigorous men to dangling heaps of clothes! Some of them might have inhabited that very cell —... | |
 | Gilbert Ashville Pierce, William Adolphus Wheeler - 1872 - 652 lapas
...such quick succession, that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die, and joked, too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. With what a' rattling noise the drop went down I and how snddenly they changed from strong and vigorous men to dangling heaps of elothes I Some of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1874 - 574 lapas
...quick succession, that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die,—and had joked too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. With...strong and vigorous men to dangling heaps of clothes ! light ? The cell had been built for many years. Scores of men must have passed their last hours there.... | |
 | Charles Sutton - 1874 - 680 lapas
...HICKS, THE PIRATE. — HIS BLOODY DEEDS ON BOARD AN OYSTER SLOOP. — EXECUTION ON BEDLOE*S ISLAND. " With what a rattling noise the drop went down, and...strong and vigorous men to dangling heaps of clothes I" — DICKENS, in Oliver Tunst. WHEN Bluebeard is leaving the lovely Fatima, he cautions her, as told... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1883 - 666 lapas
...quick succession, that he could hardly count them. He had seen some of them die—and had joked, too, because they died with prayers upon their lips. With...clothes ! Some of them might have inhabited that very cell—sat upon that very spot. It was very dark; why didn't they bring a light? The cell bad been... | |
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... hanged by the neck till he was dead. As it came on very dark, he began to think of all the men he had known who had died upon the scaffold : some of them through his means. They rose up, in such quick succession, that he could hardly count them. He... 
