 ... due proportion towards 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 wanting to make good the amount. Ruth Pierce protested that she had paid her share,...  Ancient Stone Crosses of England - Seite 137von Alfred Rimmer - 1875 - 159 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 316 Seiten
...down dead if she had not. She rashly repeated the awful wish ; when, to the consternation and terror of the surrounding multitude, she instantly fell down...expired, having the money concealed in her hand." The narrative of this solemn event was by order of the authorities recorded on a tablet and hung up... | |
 | Frederick George Lee - 1875 - 322 Seiten
...dffwn dead if she had not. She rashly repeated the awful wish ; when, to the consternation and terror of the surrounding multitude, she instantly fell down...expired, having the money concealed in her hand." The narrative of this solemn event was by order of the authorities recorded on a tablet and hung up... | |
 | Enoch Fitch Burr - 1876 - 410 Seiten
...might drop down dead if she had not. She rashly repeated this awful wish ; when, to the astonishment of the surrounding multitude, she instantly fell down...expired, having the money concealed in her hand." Now these facts are mere samples. They are only a few out of multitudes equally striking and well attested.... | |
 | Kazlitt Arvine - 1877 - 926 Seiten
...amount Ruth 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...expired, having the money concealed in her hand." (rf) THE OPPOSER'S PRAYER.— A candidate for the Christian ministry was once invited to settle in... | |
 | 1877 - 598 Seiten
...amount. Ruth 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 and terror of the surrounding multitude, she instantly fell down and expired, having the money concealed... | |
 | E S. P - 1880 - 594 Seiten
...amount. Buth Pierce protested that she hail paid her share, and said she wished she might drop down dead if she. had not. She rashly repeated this awful...fell down and expired, having the money concealed in liei hand." 955. Kingly Eeproof.— A Godfearing architect, having some business with his Majesty George... | |
 | 1883 - 204 Seiten
...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 of the surrounding multitudes, she instantly fell down and expired, having the money concealed... | |
 | Isabella Banks - 1881 - 434 Seiten
...wanting. Ruth 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 and terror of the surrounding multitude, she instantly expired, having the money concealed in her hand."... | |
 | Richard Pike (writer on religion) - 1882 - 136 Seiten
...amount. Ruth 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...expired, having the money concealed in her hand." STRIKING APPEAL. A GODLY, faithful minister of the seventeenth century, having finished prayer, and... | |
 | William Winter - 1892 - 396 Seiten
...amount. " Ruth 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...expired, having the money concealed in her hand." An interesting church in Devizes is that of St. John, the Norman tower of which is a relic of the days... | |
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