| Marion Harland - Historic buildings - 1910 - 382 pages
...tell you that she was conveyed from her usual place where she lay, to another where the bed's head stood close to a privy postern door, where they in the night came and stifled her in her bed, and then flung her down-stairs, thereby believing the world would think it a mischance." No post was... | |
| Sir Walter Scott - 1902 - 378 pages
...that she by chance fell down stairs, (but still without hurting her hood that was upon her head,) yet the inhabitants will tell you there, that she was...door, where they in the night came and stifled her hi her bed, bruised her head very much, broke her neck, and at length flung her down stairs, thereby... | |
| 1881 - 784 pages
...that she by chance fell down-stairs (but still without hurting her hood that w«9 upon her head), yet the inhabitants will tell you there that she was conveyed from her usual chamber where s ho lay to another where the bed's head of the chamber stood close to a privy poetern door where they... | |
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