 | John Esten Cooke - Virginia - 1883 - 594 pages
...Governor with an " impetuous like delirious action," exclaiming violently : — " Damn my blood ! I '11 kill Governor, Council, Assembly and all, and then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood." And it was afterwards said, we are told by Mr. TM of Stafford, that Bacon had ordered his men, if he... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 558 pages
...delirious) actions, whilst that party presented their fusils at the window full of faces, he said, "Damn my blood, I'll kill Governor, Council, Assembly and...then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood;" and afterwards 'twas said Bacon had given a signal to his men who presented their fusils at those gazing... | |
 | David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris - English periodicals - 1894 - 556 pages
...should the fierytempered colonial Cromwell drop his handkerchief. " Damn my blood ! " shouts he. " I'll kill Governor, Council, Assembly and all, and...then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood " " We will have it [the commission] ! We will have it ! " cry the soldiers. " You shall have it !... | |
 | John Roy Musick - 1895 - 444 pages
...and waited further orders from Bacon. Their leader had dashed into the council chamber swearing: 22 "D — n my blood! I'll kill governor, council, assembly...them and clasped an arm about each. It was Ester and. Kebecca meeting the brother and lover. The excitement was too great for many to bestow more than a... | |
 | Self-culture - 1900 - 728 pages
...their retreating figures, tossing his arm and fuming like one distracted. "Damn my blood," he cried, " I'll kill governor. Council, Assembly, and all, and...I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood ! " The fusiliers presented their weapons at the \vindows of the Assembly Chamber and repeated with menacing... | |
 | Samuel H. Yonge - Jamestown (Va.) - 1907 - 196 pages
...leader's commission. It is also reported that Bacon muttered "Dam my blood, I'll kill governor and Council, Assembly and all, and then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood," and that all that was necessary to carry this blood-curdling vow into execution was the drawing of... | |
 | Samuel H. Yonge - Jamestown (Va.) - 1907 - 200 pages
...leader's commission. It is also reported that Bacon muttered "Dam my blood, I'll kill governor and Council, Assembly and all, and then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood," and that all that was necessary to carry this blood-curdling vow into execution was the drawing of... | |
 | Mary Johnston - Maryland - 1918 - 310 pages
...legs, often tossing his hand from his sword to his hat," and that outside the door he had cried: "Damn my blood! I'll kill Governor, Council, Assembly and...then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood!" He is no dour, determined, unwordy revolutionist like the Scotch Drummond, nor still and subtle like... | |
 | Mary Newton Stanard - Virginia - 1928 - 404 pages
...to gesticulate in the fashion described. Finally the Rebel swore another great oath and exclaiming, "I'll kill Governor, Council, Assembly and all, and...then I'll sheathe my sword in my own heart's blood!" he ordered his guard to "Make ready, and present!" In a flash the loaded muskets of the "fusileers"... | |
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... save our lives from the Indians, which you have so often promised, and now we will have it before we go. 