 | Mary Hays - Women - 1803 - 542 pages
...slept composedly for several hours. She arose early in the morning and retired to her closet, in which she employed a considerable time in her devotional...ivory crucifix, her beads hung at her girdle, and an dgnus Dei, by a pomander chain, from her neck. She was received at the bottom of the staircase by the... | |
 | Elizabeth Helme - Scotland - 1806 - 318 pages
...the altar. She immediately started up, and with a firm step, and a countenance undismayed, advanced towards the place of execution. She was dressed in...mourning habit, but with an elegance and splendour she had long laid aside -t an Agnus Dei hung from her neck, her beads were at her girdle, and in her... | |
 | Mary Hays - Women - 1807 - 526 pages
...entered her chamber. On their appearance she started up, and with majesty in her air, and serenity iu her aspect, advanced cheerfully, leaning on two of...dressed in a mourning habit, but with an elegance and splendor which she had long laid aside. In her hand she carried an»ivory crucifix, her beads hung... | |
 | William Henry Ireland - 1808 - 256 pages
...and even cheerful, advanced towards the place of execution, leaning on two of Paulett's attendants. She was dressed in a mourning, habit, but with an...elegance and splendour which she had long laid aside, except on a few festival days. An Agnus Dei hung by a pomander chain at her neck, her beads at her... | |
 | William Robertson - Europe - 1810 - 412 pages
...and even cheerful, advanced towards the place of execution, leaning on two of Paulet's attendants. She was dressed in a mourning habit, but with an elegance and splendour which she had long laid aside, except on a few festival days. An Agnus Dei hung by a pomander chain at her neck ; her beads at her... | |
 | William Robertson - Scotland - 1811 - 538 pages
...towards the place of execution, leaning oil * Jebb, ii. 301. Vol. I. A a two of Paulet's attendants. She was dressed in a mourning habit, but with an elegance and splendour which she had long laid aside, except on a few festival days. An Agnus Dei hung by a pomander chain at her neck ; her beads at her... | |
 | William Robertson - 1813 - 652 pages
...and even cheerful, advanced towards the place of execution, leaning on two of Paulet's attendants. She was dressed in a mourning habit, but with an elegance and splendour which she had long laid aside, except on a few festival days.- An Agnus Dei hung by a pomander chain at her neck ; her beads at her... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English literature - 1816 - 414 pages
...and even cheerful, advanced towards the place of execution, leaning on two of Paulct's attendants. She was dressed in a. mourning habit, but with an elegance . and splendour which she had long lain aside, except on a few festival days. An Agnus Dei hung by a pomander cliain at her neck ; her... | |
 | Almanacs, English - 1817 - 494 pages
...and even, cheerful, advanced towards the place of execution, leaning on two of Paulet's attendants. She was dressed in a mourning habit, but with an elegance and splendour which she had long laid aside, except on a few festival days. An agnus dei hung by a pomander chain at her neck; her beads at her... | |
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Sheriff and his officers entered her chamber, and found her still kneeling at the altar. She immediately started up, and with a majestic mien, and a countenance undismayed and even cheerful, advanced towards the place of execution, leaning on two of Paulet's... 
