| John Davenport - 1839 - 520 pagine
...instantly to raise it again, to escape suffocation. " I need not, my dear friend, ask your commiseration, when I tell you, that in this plight, from half an hour after eleven till near two in the morning, I sustained the weight of a heavy man, with his knees on... | |
| Tales - 1858 - 168 pagine
...the bars, from which there was no removing them. I need not my dear friend, ask your commiseration, when I tell you, that in this plight, from half an...sustained the weight of a heavy man, with his knees on my back and the pressure of his whole body on my head, a Dutch serjeant, who had taken his seat... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1858 - 924 pagine
...nor could the effluvia of the one be distinguished from the other. I need not ask your commiseration when I tell you that in this plight, from half an hour after eleven till two in the morning, I sustained the weight of a heavy man with his knees on my back,... | |
| 1858 - 810 pagine
...your commiseration when I tell you thnt in this plight, from half an hour after eleven till two in tho morning, I sustained the weight of a heavy man with his knees on my back, and the pressure of his whole body on my head ; a Dutch sergeant who had taken his seat... | |
| 1858 - 828 pagine
...nor could the effluvia of the one be distinguished from the other. I need not ask your commiseration when I tell you that in this plight, from half an hour after eleven till two in the morning, I sustained the weight of a heavy man with his knees on my back,... | |
| Dio Lewis - 1863 - 398 pagine
...need not ask your commiseration when I tell you in this plight, from half an hour after eleven till two in the morning, I sustained the weight of a heavy man with his knees on my back, and the pressure of his whole body on my head ; a Dutch sergeant, who had taken his seat... | |
| Dio Lewis - 1865 - 374 pagine
...need not ask your commiseration when I tell you in this plight, from half an hour after eleven till two in the morning, I sustained the weight of a heavy man with his knees on my back, and the pressure of his whole body on my head ; a Dutch sergeant, who had taken his seat... | |
| Book - 1867 - 662 pagine
...over a bowl full of strong volatile spirit of hartshorn. In this plight, from half-past eleven till two in the morning, I sustained the weight of a heavy man, with his knees on my back, and the pressure of his whole body on my head. A Dutch sergeant had taken his seat upon... | |
| William Whitty Hall - 1871 - 398 pagine
...nor could the effluvia of the one be distinguished from the other. I need not ask your commiseration when I tell you that in this plight from half an hour after eleven till two in the morning, 1 sustained the weight of a heavy man with hia knees on my back,... | |
| Famous historical scenes - 1875 - 648 pagine
...not, dear friend, ask your commiseration, when I tell you, that in this plight, from half-anhour after eleven till near two in the morning I sustained the weight of a heavy man, with his knees on my back, and the pressure of his whole body on my head ; a Dutch sergeant, who had taken his seat... | |
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