When the rope was put round his neck, he turned pale, but recovered his countenance instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it : his toes touched... Tyburn Tree: Its History and Annals - Página 252por Alfred Marks - 1908 - 292 páginasVisualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| Horace Walpole - 1833 - 484 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...soon out of pain, and quite dead in four minutes. He desired not to be stripped and exposed, and Vaillant promised him, though his clothes must be taken... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1833 - 452 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...soon out of pain, and quite dead in four minutes. He desired not to be stripped and exposed, and Vaillant promised him, though his clothes must be taken... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1837 - 702 páginas
...and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, before the signal was given for striking the stage As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...little, having had time, by their bungling, to raise VOL. II. 2 X his cap; but the executioner pulled it down again, and they pulled his legs, so that he... | |
| Horace Walpole (4th earl of Orford.) - 1840 - 548 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...soon out of pain, and quite dead in four minutes. He desired not to be stripped and exposed, and Vaillant promised him, though his clothes must be taken... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1840 - 540 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...soon out of pain, and quite dead in four minutes. He desired not to be stripped and exposed, and Vaillant promised him, though his clothes must be taken... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1842 - 580 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it:...soon out of pain, and quite dead in four minutes. He desired not to be stripped and exposed, and Vaillant promised him, though his clothes must be taken... | |
| Leigh Hunt - 1843 - 144 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...toes touched it, and he suffered a little, having had lime by their bungling to raise his cap ; but the executioner pulled it down again and they pulled... | |
| Horace Walpole - 1861 - 550 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach, to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...little, having had time, by their bungling, to raise hi.* cap ; but the executioner pulled it down again, and they pulled his legs, so that he was soon... | |
| John Timbs - 1865 - 338 páginas
...instantly, and was but seven minutes from leaving the coach to the signal given for striking the stage. As the machine was new, they were not ready at it...soon out of pain, and quite dead in four minutes. He desired not to be stripped and exposed ; and Vaillant promised him, though his clothes must be taken... | |
| David Laing Purves - 1868 - 208 páginas
...given, became flat. The contrivance, however, did not very well succeed ; for Horace Walpole tells us, " as the machine was new, they were not ready at it...soon out of pain, and quite dead in four minutes." A YORKSHIRE COMPARISON. LORD BROUGHAM used to be fond of reviving bar recollections. The following... | |
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