 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 pages
...fpedtators, nor to be ferved by fuch valets. With calm but undaunted fortitude, fhe laid her neck on the block; and while one executioner held her hands, the other, at the fecond ftroke, cut oft" her head, which falling out of its attire, difcovered her hair already grown... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - Books - 1759 - 636 pages
...fpc<3ators, nor to be ferved by fuch valets. With calm but undaunted fortitude, file laid her neck on the block ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other, at the fecond ffroke, cut off her head, which falling out of its attire, difcovered her hair already grown... | |
 | William Robertson - 1771 - 458 pages
...fpe&ators, nor to be ferved by fuch valets. With calm, but undaunted fortitude, fhe laid her neck on the block ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other at the fecond ftroke, cut off her head, which falling out of its attire, difcovered her hair already grown... | |
 | English literature - 1759 - 760 pages
...was prosperous. They ed fortitude, (he laid her neck on the had doubled the fouthern extremity or* block ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other, at the fecund ilroke, cut off her head ; which falling out of its attire, dilcovercd her hair already grown... | |
 | William Robertson - Scotland - 1794 - 620 pages
...fpeftators, nor to be ferved by fuch valets. With calm but undaunted fortitude, fhe laid her neck on the block ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other, at the fecond ftroke, cut off her head, which falling out of its attire, difcovered her hair already grown... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenburg - Literature - 1795 - 678 pages
...her head on the block; and while one executioner held her hands , the other , at the fécond ftroke, cut off her head, which falling out of its attire, discovered her hair already grown quite grey with care» ?nd lorrows. The executioner held it цр füll ftreaming with blood , and the Dean... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - Literature - 1795 - 682 pages
...fpectators, nor to be ferved by fuch valets. With calm but undaunted fob titude, fhe laid her head on the block; and while one executioner held her hands , the other , at the fécond ftroke, cut off her head, which falling out of its attire, difcovercd her hair already grown... | |
 | David Irving - English language - 1803 - 266 pages
...fpeetators,nortobefervedbyfuch valets. With calm but undaunted fortitude, fhe laid her neck on. the block ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other at the fecond ftroke, cut off her head, which falling out of its attire, difcovered her hair atready grown... | |
 | John Stark (of Edinburgh.) - Scotland - 1805 - 452 pages
...valets. With calrii but undaunted fortitude she laid her neck on the blotk; and while one eiecmioner held her hands, the other, at the second stroke, cut...its attire, discovered her hair already grown quite grey with cares and sorrows. The executioner held it up, still streaming with blood, and the dean crying... | |
 | John Stark - Biography - 1805 - 488 pages
...spectators, nor to be served by such valets. With calm but undaunted fortitude she laid her neck on the ck ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other, at the second stroke, cut off her !ier.d, which, falling out of its attire, discovered her hair already grown quite grey with cares and... | |
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... valets. With calm but undaunted fortitude, she laid her neck on the block ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other, at the second stroke, cut off her head, which, falling out of its attire, discovered her hair already grown quite grey... 
