 | 1896 - 926 páginas
...humor, names a fade in Pace; the last bead of the rosary grazes the first rings of a chain which bears the bloody impress of the sworn tormentor. At Bicetre, as at the Luxembourg, ages ago, big-belhed cenobites sang and tippled in the cosy cells piled above the dungeons of the church. Bicetre—... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1896 - 640 páginas
...humour, names a Vade in Pace ; the last bead of the rosary grazes the first rings of a chain which bears the bloody impress of the sworn tormentor. At Bicetre,...cosy cells piled above the dungeons of the church. Bicetre—more anciently Bissestre—isacorruptformofVineestre, or Winchester, after John, Bishop of... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1896 - 902 páginas
...bloody impress of the sworn tormentor. At Bicotre, as at the Luxembourg, ages ago, bigbellied cénobites sang and tippled in the cosy cells piled above the dungeons of the church. Bicêtre — more anciently Bissestre — is a corrupt form of Vincestre, or Winchester, after John,... | |
 | 1896 - 926 páginas
...humor, names a Vade in Pace; the last bead of the rosary grazes the first rings of a chain which bears the bloody impress of the sworn tormentor. At Bicetre, as at the Luxembourg, ages ago, big-bellied cénobites sang and tippled in the cosy cells piled above the dungeons of the church. BlcPtre — more... | |
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The folds of the priestly garb conceal a place of torment which monastic justice, with a grisly humour, names a Vade in Pace ; the last bead of the rosary grazes the first rings of a chain which bears the bloody impress of the sworn tormentor. At Bicetre,... 