 | Jedidiah Morse - 1824 - 524 Seiten
...had un opportunity to speak, if he desired it ; he raised the handkerchief from his eyes and said, " I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man." The waggon being now removed from mider him, lie was suspended, and instantly expired ; it proved indeed... | |
 | James Thacher - 1827 - 494 Seiten
...had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it ; he raised the handkerchief from his eyes, and said, " I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man." The wagon being now removed from under him, he was suspended and instantly expired ; it proved indeed... | |
 | Auguste Levasseur - 1829 - 236 Seiten
...had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it; he raised the handkerchief from his eyes and said, " I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man." The wagon being now removed from under him, he was suspended and immediately expired; it proved indeed,... | |
 | H. L. Barnum - 1829 - 502 Seiten
...had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it. He raised the handkerchief from his eyes, and said—' I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.' The waggon being now removed from under him, he was suspended, and instantly expired. It proved, indeed,,... | |
 | H. L. Barnum - 1831 - 232 Seiten
...had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it. He raised the handkerchief from his eyes, and said — 'I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.' The wagon being now removed from under him, he was suspended, and instantly expired. It proved, indeed,... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1835 - 386 Seiten
...had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it. He raised the handkerchief from his eyes, and said, ' I pray you to bear me witness, that I meet my fate like a brave man.' The wagon being now removed from under him, he was suspended and instantly expired." * * THACHER'S... | |
 | George Robert Gleig - 1836 - 510 Seiten
...been fastened round his neck, whether he had anything to say, he replied in an unfaltering voice, " I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man ;" and the wagon being immediately drawn from beneath him, he died almost without a struggle. His body... | |
 | 1838 - 410 Seiten
...perfect firmness, adjusted it to his neck. "Major Andre, you have now an opportunity to speak if yon desire it," said the provost-marshal. Lifting the...There was no vain boasting in his voice or manner, but hit words proceeded from that honorable pride which becomes a soldier, and which sheds a halo even... | |
 | 1840 - 566 Seiten
...he had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it. He raised the bandage from his eyes, and said : ' I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.' In another instant, his spirit had passed to the God who gave it. Such was the melancholy fate of a... | |
 | 1840 - 576 Seiten
...he had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it He raised the bandage from his eyes, and said : ' I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man.' In another instant, his spirit had passed to the God who gave it. Such was the melancholy fate of a... | |
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Scammel now informed him that he had an opportunity to speak, if he desired it ; he raised the handkerchief from his eyes, and said, " I pray you to bear me witness that I meet my fate like a brave man. 
