 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 514 oldal
...They expostuated ; they entreated; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point...the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. From a child Surajah Dowlah had hated the English. It was his whim to do so; and his whims were never... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843 - 424 oldal
...They expostulated; they entreated; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point...the door was instantly shut and locked upon them. The Nabob seated himself with regal pomp in the principal hall of the factory, and ordered Mr. Holwell,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 782 oldal
...They expostulated ; they entreated; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword, and ihe door was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction — not even the story... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1846 - 472 oldal
...expostulate and implore ; upon which the officer ordered his men to cut down those who hesitated, and the captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword. The space was so thronged that the last could hardly find room to enter. The savages without then locked... | |
 | 1849 - 742 oldal
...They expostulated, they entreated, but in vain. The guards threatened to cut all down who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point...was instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in the history of fiction — not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 oldal
...They expostulated, they entreated, but in vain. The guards threatened to cut all down who hesitated. The captives were driven into the cell at the point...shut and locked upon them. "Nothing in history or fiction—not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 468 oldal
...expostulate and implore ; upon which the officer ordered his men to cut down those who hesitated, and the captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword. The space was so thronged that the last could hardly find room to enter. The savages without then locked... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1851 - 466 oldal
...expostulate and implore ; upon which the officer ordered his men to cut down those who hesitated, and the captives were driven into the cell at the point of the sword. The space was so thronged that the last could hardly find room to enter. -The savages without then... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1856 - 752 oldal
...They expostulated ; they entreated; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. The 'captives were driven into the cell at the point...instantly shut and locked upon them. Nothing in history or fiction—not even the story which Ugolino told in the sea of everlasting ice, after he had wiped his... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 oldal
...They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The guards threatened to cut down all who hesitated. xi /( / / winch were recounted by the few survivors of that night. They cried for mercy. They strove to burst... | |
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... were joking ; and, being in high spirits on account of the promise of the Nabob to spare their lives, they laughed and jested at the absurdity of the notion. They soon discovered their mistake. They expostulated ; they entreated ; but in vain. The... 
