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... and a collision? The reader of sensibility will at the same time rejoice to hear that no greater harm is done than that of killing outright a bete noir of a husband, and leaving his victim of a forced marriage free to give her hand (after decent mourning) ...

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... the whole family, four in number, father, mother, son, and daughter-the last a little girl-whom one by one he treacherously killed with his axe, praying to God to help him in the course of the slaughter. Mr Therry says that this wretched criminal died with ...

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... also preserved several pocket cross- bows and steel arrows, with which the same wretch was accustomed to amuse himself by killing or wounding all those a5inst whom he bore a grudge, w~ithout their know- nsg trots, whence the blow came. He was strangled ...

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... lbeen executed, what would have become of the prophecy which the Doctor has just assured us was brought to pass upon his scaffold The silly, unmoaning, clilishl absurdity which pervades what is meant for the argueaut aind the elorltuence of the volume ...

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... krclibishop, proved a true friend to him in his studies, and l xJuon, who afterwards ministered to Charles the irst on the scaffold, used to go hunting with him. In excursions he miet with an accident, which lndd him from taking his B.A., and brought him ...

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... the love of Heaven, as I spared yours, rejoined the girl, clinging to him- Bill, dear Bill, you cannot have the heart to kill me. Oh' think of all I have given up only this one night for you. You shall have time to think, and save yourself this crime; ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... arraigned; his refusal to beg his lifi from the mean, frightened, pusillanimous King; anc the ignoble tragi-comedy of the scaffold, with E reprieve secretly confided to the sheriff; and the brave and noble gentlemen put through all the agony of death, ...

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... of one of her pursuers she let go her hold and fell with violence upon the pavement. It was her misfortune not to have been killed on the spot; her thigh was Ibroken in two places, her left arm was fractured, and one of her eyes twas knocked out; in addition ...

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... Charing Cross to Wandsworth or to. Putney. It seems, however, that we have no real reason to be afraid. More persons were killed by lightning in 1866 than by railway accidents beyond their own control. But a still more startling computation is the following: ...

LITERATURE

... and a staff came and beat the dog, and so on, it concludes thus:- Then came the Holy one, blessed be He, And killed the Angel of Death, That killed the butcher, That slew the ox, That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the staff, That beat ...

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... much as ever; and if you do, you don't eat with a relish, I'm sure of that. You can't deceive me there. But I know wbat's killing you. It's the confinement; it's the bad air you breathe; it's the smoke of London. Oh yes, I know your old exruse: you never ...

THE LITERARY EXAMINER

... watch-face, regarding which the popular belief has been, and is, that it was left there by a labouring man who fell from a scaffold at the top of the building, and was only saved from destruction by the ribbon of his watch, which caught in a piece of projecting ...