 | 1820 - 646 pages
...hand, set his bapk against the gate, and swore, that, " if he was to die for it the next " minute, lie would have the life of the first man who should open...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not know him, nor he her. He had never seen her face ; but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when... | |
 | 1820 - 856 pages
...who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore, that " if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not know him, nor he her. He had never seen her face, but she had, tho year before, lent his wife, when... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1819 - 524 pages
...who icemed to be a leader, with a pike in hi* hand, set his back against the gate, and swore, that, " if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not know him, nor he her. He had never seen her face, but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when... | |
 | Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1820 - 636 pages
...who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore, that, " if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...good gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though the did not f,nau! him, nor he her. He had never seen her face, but she had, the year before, lent... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1820 - 574 pages
...open. Their leader, however, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore that " if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...man who should open that gate, or set enemy's foot withinside of that place." He said that " the housekeeper who was left in it was a good gentlewoman,... | |
 | Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1821 - 488 pages
...who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore, that, " if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not know him, nor he her. He had never seen her face, but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when... | |
 | 1857 - 626 pages
...gentleman's mansion and demesne. " With a pike in his hand he set his back against the gate, and swore that, if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...should open that gate, or set enemy's foot within that place." Meantime, General Lake decided the affair at Balliuamnck ; and, for poor Mr. Edgeworth,... | |
 | 1851 - 424 pages
...minute, he would have the life of the first man who should open that gate, or set enemy's foot within that place. He said the housekeeper, who was left...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not know him, nor he her. He had never seen her face, but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1861 - 428 pages
...who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore that, if he was to die for it the next minute, he would...should open that gate, or set enemy's foot within that place. He said the housekeeper, who was left in it, was a good gentlewoman, and had done him a... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1861 - 436 pages
...minute, he would have the life of the first man who should open that gate, or set enemy's foot within that place. He said the housekeeper, who was left...gentlewoman, and had done him a service, though she did not hnow him, nor he her. He had never seen her face, but she had, the year before, lent his wife, when... | |
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She heard them at the gate, and expected that they would have broken in the next instant. But one, who seemed to be a leader, with a pike in his hand, set his back against the gate, and swore that, if he was to die for it the next minute, he would have... 
