| English literature - 1840 - 612 pages
...despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers...shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps and moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had... | |
| 1840 - 662 pages
...despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers...raved, prayed, blasphemed — implored the guards lo fire among them. The gaolers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter... | |
| England - 1849 - 792 pages
...They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows — fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies — raved,prayed, blasphemed, implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers, in the mean time,... | |
| English literature - 1840 - 612 pages
...despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers...the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted \yith laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1840 - 514 pages
...cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies—raved, prayed, blasphemed—implored the guard to fire among them. The gaolers in the mean time held...shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length ihe tumult died away in low gasps and moanings. The day broke. Thenabob had... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Great Britain - 1843 - 424 pages
...which the cruel mercy of the murderers mocked their agonies—raved, prayed, blasphemed—implored the guards to fire among them. The gaolers in the...shouted with laughter at the frantic struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps and moanings. The day broke. The Nabob had... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...despair. They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows, fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers...agonies — raved, prayed, blasphemed — implored Ihe guards to fire among them. The jailers in the mean time held lights to the bars, and shouted with... | |
| Great Britain - 290 pages
...petitioned their guards to place their muskets to their windows and fire among them. Their dungeon keepers, in the mean time, held lights to the bars, and shouted with laughter at the frantic and impotent struggles of their victims. At length the tumult died away in low gasps and hollow moanings... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 pages
...They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows — fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers...gaspings and meanings. The day broke The nabob had slept off his debauch, nnd permitted the door to be opened ; but it was some time before the soldiers... | |
| Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...They trampled each other down, fought for the places at the windows — fought for the pittance of water with which the cruel mercy of the murderers...gaspings and meanings. The day broke. The nabob had slept off his debauch, and permitted the door to be opened ; but it was some time before the soldiers... | |
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