... swears revenge, which she effects in a series of horrible ways-first, by not warning her enemy's second husband of a dangerous scaffold plank of which she knows, but which she allows him to tread on, so that he falls from the top of a house; secondly, by enticing ...

... l)nc de Chevreuse has killed the nephew of the Cardinal Richeliea in a duel; Marie de Rtohan comes to the Comte Chalais, the -King's favourite, to implore his intercession on behalf of De Chevreuse, who is threatened with the scaffold. The Conite de Chalais ...

... mob. for whose hundreds of thousands his death was a holiday. From the dense eagerness of the crowd, a scaffold fell, and several people were killed. But so intensely was the interest of all centred iii the Oie solemn and deliberate extinction of life ...

... Tower to the scaffold. When told to lay her head upon the block, she said,-' No! my head never committed treason: if you will have it, vou must take it as you can.' The executioner tried to seize her, but she moved swiftly round the scaffold, tossingher ...

... nobles named perished on, the scaffold. Though out of place ill the current narrative, the account of Seymour's execution is appropriate here: Owing to the precautions taken by the Constable, Seymour was brought to the scaffold in safety, and when he soon ...

... made him cruel towards them, but not towards men,. He killed horses with his own hand, and if he met, with asses he frequently struck off their heads, and paid their value to the owners. He killed - swine in the presence of his courticrs, and dabbled ...

... removable scaffolding by help of which the building up of fixed truth may be conveniently carried on, yet we respect some of the German speculators. They have, at any rate, with rare diligence worked at the ties and joints of all this scaffolding. Some of ...

... himself at court. He has confessed and received ahiolution by the ,way. The King sentences him to death and he ascends the scaffold; but only to be handed down therefrom, after a speech of unequalled eloquence, into the bosom of the King. What follows after- ...

... quickened by insulting suggestions: they campaign together; Lord Alton has a romantic adventure with a Greek lady, marries her, is killed in a duel, and leaves her pregnant to the care of Richard. The lady dies in child-birth, and Richard, seeing the infant the ...

... him on the state of affairs. ' Where's Major Cannan ' ?? Wounded.'-' Mackie ?? Killed.'-' Wright ?? Shot dead.'-' Where's so-and-so, and so-and-so, and so-and-so ?? Killed, wounded, dead, missing.' Such was the state of our regiment at eight o'clock in ...

... throne he sate; He glared upon a scaffold With eyes of wrath and hate. The black-draped scaffold towered 'Midst crowding heads and spears, And on its height were standing Two youths of tender years. ,Beside them on the scaffold, Boding a deed of blood, A grisly ...

... gentle are the Turks: true, they are half-starved ; no- body owns them, but nobody hurts them. It seenes however, our soldiers kill them for them I The example is set by our young Officers; one of these gentlemen at the table d'hote was boasting of how many ...