 | 1817 - 292 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered, — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep...the last articulate words I ever heard him utter, — ' O, Mr Osbaldistone, save me '. save me !' •• 1 was so much moved by this horrid spectacle,... | |
 | 1817 - 492 pages
...haunted my sleep for years afterward. As the murderers, or executioners, call them as you will, dragsed him along, he recognised me even in that moment of...the last articulate words I ever heard him utter, 0, Mr. Osbaldistoiie, save me ! — save me !" '' I was so much moved by this horrid spectacle, that... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1818 - 862 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear over uttered, — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep...years afterwards. As the murderers, or executioners, cull them as you will, dragged him along, he recognized me even in that moment of horror, and exclaimed,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1818 - 370 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep for years afterward. As the murderers, or executioners, call them as you will, dragged him along, he recognized... | |
 | 1818 - 590 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that iear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep for years afterward. As the murderers, or executioners, •call them as you will, dragged him along, he recognised... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep...him along, he recognised me even in that moment of horrour, and exclaimed, in the last articulate words I ever heard him utter, " O, Mr. Osbaldistone,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep...executioners, call them as you will, dragged him along, he recognized me even in that moment of horrour, and exclaimed, in the last articulate words 1 ever heard... | |
 | Walter Scott - Outlaws - 1834 - 562 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep...murderers, or executioners, call them as you will, .draggeo him along, he recognized me even in that moment of horror, and exclaimed, in the last articulate... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 484 pages
...which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep...the last articulate words I ever heard him utter, " 0, Mr. Osbaldistone, save me ! — save me !" I was so much moved by this horrid spectacle, that... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...straight into the ground. 270. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered — I may well term them dreadful, for they haunted my sleep for years afterwards. 271. Each zone obeys thee — thou goest forth dread, fathomless, alone. 272. Please your honors, quoth... | |
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She gave a brief command in Gaelic to her attendants, two of whom seized upon the prostrate suppliant and hurried him to the brink of a cliff which overhung the flood. He set up the most piercing and dreadful cries that fear ever uttered: I may well term... 
