| James White - 1858 - 316 pages
...street, and one of them, without naming the patient, as if there was only one deathbed in London, asked him, " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying?" From Edinburgh to Abbotsford the distance is not great. " He was placed in the carriage, and lay,"... | |
| James Thomas Fields - 1866 - 420 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street, and one of them asked him, as if there was but one death-bed in London, " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ? " The inquiries both at the hotel and at my house were incessant ; and I think there was hardly a... | |
| REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN - 1870 - 414 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street; and one of them asked him, as if there had been only one deathbed in London, ' Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ?' Yes, a king lying in state ! Messages without number were incessantly sent to his hotel, including... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1870 - 414 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street; and one of them asked him, as if there had been only one deathbed in London, ' Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ?' Yes, a king lying in state ! Messages without number were incessantly sent to his hotel, including... | |
| REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, DUNDEE - 1871 - 424 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street ; and one of them asked him, as if there had been only one deathbed in London, ' Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ?' Yes, a king lying in state ! Messages without number were incessantly sent to his hotel, including... | |
| Francis Jacox - 1872 - 530 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street, and one of them asked him—as if there was but one death-bed in London—" Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying ?" An American traveller bringing news to Byron, in 1813, that his rhymes were very popular in the... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1914 - 852 pages
...weak to go on without rest. Outside his hotel gathered begrimed day-laborers with the awed question, "Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying?" By careful stages, early in July, he traveled on, crossed the last salt water, and was tenderly lifted... | |
| John Gibson Lockhart, Henry Irwin Jenkinson - 1873 - 428 pages
...corner of Jermyn Street, and one of them asked him, as if there was but one deathbed in London — " Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying 1" The newspapers were filled with paragraphs about Sir Walter ; and one of these suggested that his... | |
| Richard Holt Hutton - 1879 - 206 pages
...the corner of the street, who stopped him and asked, "as if there was but one death-bed in London, 'Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is ying 1 ' " According to the usual irony of destiny, it was while the working men were doing him this... | |
| Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 pages
...at the corner of the street, who stopped him and asked, as if there was but one death-bed in London, "Do you know, sir, if this is the street where he is lying?" Scott's one urgent desire was to return to Abbotsford, and at last the journey was undertaken. As he... | |
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