 On Thursday the 25th of January, 1753, Ruth Pierce, of Potterne, in this county, agreed with three other women to buy a sack of wheat in the market, each paying her due proportion towards the same; one of these women, in collecting the several quotas...  Ancient Stone Crosses of England - Seite 137von Alfred Rimmer - 1875 - 159 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | 1877 - 598 Seiten
...each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women, in collecting the several quota of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of...paid her share, and said, " She wished she might drop down dead if she had not !" She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation and terror... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1877 - 926 Seiten
...each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of...paid her share, and said, she wished she might drop down dead, if she had not. She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation of the surrounding... | |
 | 1883 - 204 Seiten
...deficiency, and demanded of Ruth Peirce the sum which was wanting to make good the amount. ' Ruth Peirce protested that she had paid her share, and said she wished she might drop down dead if she had not. She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation and terror... | |
 | Isabella Banks - 1881 - 434 Seiten
...each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of these women in collecting these several quotas of money discovered a deficiency, and demanded of Ruth Pierce the sum which was wanting. Ruth Pierce protested that ' she had paid her share,' and said ' she wished she might drop down dead... | |
 | Richard Pike (writer on religion) - 1882 - 136 Seiten
...each paying her due proportion towards the same. One of the women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of...paid her share, and said, she wished she might drop down dead, if she had not. She rashly repeated this awful wish, when to the consternation of the surrounding... | |
 | William Winter - 1892 - 350 Seiten
...several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of Ruth Pierce the sum which was wanted to make good the amount. " Ruth Pierce protested that...paid her share, and said, ' She wished she might drop down dead if she had not.' " She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation of the... | |
 | William Winter - 1892 - 352 Seiten
...each paying her due proportion toward the same. "One of these women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of Ruth Pierce the sum which was wanted to make good the amount. " Ruth Pierce protested that she had paid her share, and said, 'She... | |
 | Tract Association of Friends (Philadelphia, Pa.) - 1803 - 622 Seiten
...discovered a deficiency, and demanded of Euth Pierce the sum which was wanting to make good the amount. Euth Pierce protested that she had paid her share, and said "she wished she might drop down dead if she had not!" She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation of the surrounding... | |
 | William Wood Seymour - 1898 - 536 Seiten
...each paying her due proportion towards the same; one of these women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of...she had paid her share, and said ' She wished she miglit drop down dead, if she liad not ! ' She rashly repeated this awful wish, when, to the consternation... | |
 | William Wood Seymour - 1898 - 536 Seiten
...each paying her due proportion towards the same ; one of these women, in collecting the several quotas of money, discovered a deficiency, and demanded of...Pierce protested that she had paid her share, and said ' S/ic tvis/icd she might drop doivn dead, if she had not ! ' She rashly repeated this awful wish,... | |
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