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THE PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

... on the outer side of the cell can be seen the scaffold, the cress-beam, and the rope. Gray is at length pinioned and led out to execution, but just as he is about to mount the steps leading to the scaffold, Wishra the noose is wviaiting for him, the super ...

THE STUART EXHIBITION

... wiliturn more readily, however to therelics of M~ary Queen of Scots. Thse include tue Book of Hours se carred on the scaffold, from Mr. Charles Butler's collection; a eilver draught-board with aset of men, lent byhMr.W. J. Hay, of Dune;* a necklace ...

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

... forces, signs a pardon. Colonel Aucke- tell takes it from her afterwards by force, but is killed by Walk - in - the - Way Dearlove, who carries the pardon to the scaffold in the nick of time. Finally, there is a Restoration scene, of singular magni5cence and ...

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE

... arrested the lei 10 fugitive has committed suicide, and, annoyed at his yo S- defeat, Scarpita drives Cavaradossi to the scaffold, and hi is then comes the abject despair of this poor frail wonsan, t it whose unfounded suspicions have caused her lover ...

MODERN SLANG

... signs is carried out to the last; and it is said, on good authority, that a red handkerchief in the hand of a felon on the scaffold is a sign that he dies without having betrayed any of the secrets of the craft, The full history of slang is not to be written ...

ROYAL SOCIETY OF ARTISTS

... posessor 60f a poPn, and, true I to the Englishman's instinct to go and kill something, the young reprobate ?? deliberate aim at his grandmother, forgetting that a man may no more kill than marry his i grandmother. Beside the old lady a little girl crouches ...

PERIODICALS FOR DECEMBER

... -I have inuchl gi, i. pleasure isa writi ng what I knowv of the usoes of theo moe, ( in I. and the loss sustained by killing, it. To kill osioles is to ho Oleavo tiss corns amid tusrnip crop5, especially sipon light soils, w resse as stassd and desis soiledl ...

NEW BOOKS

... and Co.] Tice f ormn of the o hillihiu dreadinl lins little attraction for us. The book says so plainly- I'm invevnted to kill time ; let me dispel an hour's cncimi for you, theo toss me ino the fire or the evaste.hsalser basket. This is almost ?? for ...

NEW BOOKS

... feet, and a' kep' on yelling, as a' mnight been a 10n, and if ever a' dropeed his eves scro05 anyone a' aalayz aimed for to kill 'un. ?? v ' bro'se out in that form a' caroe unon ?? as was then, and, when a' seen un, e; a roar-Toyaddy! I reckon as it 'id ...

NEW BOOKS

... part of butchery, and the other part of it snore profitable and more honiest, as brincing much mn-re coininodity in that they kill beasts only tor inewessity.l \% Derekw the hunter seeketh nothing but vleasure of the billy and woeful beast'a slaughter and ...

NEW BOOKS

... chock the depraved t endencies of the man who would appropriate our property, or who lifts his hand againstt our life. All scaffolds, all prisons, all soldiers, all policemen, all magistrates, all judges, all lawyers,: all professional mteachers of religion ...

NEW NOVELS

... people that we cannot help being concerned at the thought whether in a case like this he is not taking us out on a false scaffolding. We may just note that I ,Miss Farrell, as her nickname implies, was a brunette | -so much so that rumour took her for a ...