 ... 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 gray...  The Star-seer: A Poem, in Five Cantos - Seite 166von William Dearden - 1837 - 173 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1759 - 636 Seiten
...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... | |
 | SEVERAL HANDS - 1759 - 636 Seiten
...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... | |
 | William Robertson - 1771 - 458 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1759 - 760 Seiten
...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 - 1794 - 620 Seiten
...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 - 1795 - 678 Seiten
...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 crying out,... | |
 | Johann Joachim Eschenaburg - 1795 - 682 Seiten
...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 - 1803 - 266 Seiten
...many 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 - 1805 - 488 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - 1806 - 318 Seiten
...spectators, nor to be served by such valets. With calm but undaunted fortitude she laid her neck on the block ; and while one executioner held her hands, the other at two strokes cut off her head, which falling out of of its attire, discovered her hair already turned... | |
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