 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1884 - 554 pages
...bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her downstairs, thereby believing the world would have thought it a mischance, and so have blinded their... | |
 | England - 1891 - 392 pages
...chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where her murderers in the night-time came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her downstairs." Now, although the inhabitants of Cumner retain no tradition of the chamber to which she... | |
 | Sir George Newnes, Herbert Greenhough Smith - England - 1902 - 820 pages
...others in the dead of night to the lady's bedchamber and stifled her in bed and flung her do\vnstairs, thereby believing the world would have thought it a mischance and so blinded their villainy : and the morning after, with the purpose that others should know of her end,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Great Britain - 1898 - 936 pages
...bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her downstairs, thereby believing the world would have thought it a mischance. and so have blinded their... | |
 | Tate Gallery - Art museums - 1900 - 254 pages
...others in the dead of night to the lady's bedchamber and stifled her in bed, and flung her downstairs, thereby believing the world would have thought it a mischance, and so blinded their villany j and the morning after, with the purpose that others should know of her end... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 378 pages
...of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her hi her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck,...would have thought it a mischance, and so have blinded then* villainy. But behold the mercy and justice of God in revenging and discovering this lady's murder,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1828 - 638 pages
...head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came, and stifled her in her bed ; bruised her head very much ; broke...it a mischance, and so have blinded their villany." Nor was this plan of violence adopted till after they had vainly attempted to destroy her by poison,... | |
 | 1881 - 784 pages
...bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy poetern door where they in the night came and stiflnd her in her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her down-stairs, thereby believing tho world would havo thought It a mischance, and so havo blinded their... | |
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... head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where she lay to another where the bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed,... 
