 | Thomas Birch - Europe - 1749 - 528 pages
...and told her, it was my chiefeft " happinefs to fee her in fafety, and in health, which -'' I wifhed might long continue. She took me by " the hand, and wrung it hard, and faid, No, Ro" bin, I am not well: And then difcourfed with me " of her indifpofition, and that her... | |
 | ...told her it was my chiet'est happiness to see her in safety, and in health, vvliich I wished mi^ht long continue. She took me by the hand, and wrung • it hard, and said, "No, HI. bin, Iain not well," and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been... | |
 | Horace Walpole - English literature - 1806
...familiarity. Visiting her in her last illness, and praying that her health might long continue, she took him by the hand and wrung it hard, and said, " No, Robin, I am not well," and fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs; which he professes he never knew her to do in all... | |
 | Robert Carey (1st earl of Monmouth.) - 1808
...called me to her; I kissed her hand, and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety, and in health, which I wished might long continue....me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said, " No, Robhij I am not well/' and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been... | |
 | 1812
...called me to her; 1 kissed her hand, and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety, and in health, which I wished might long continue....of her indisposition, and that her heart had been sud and heavy for ten or twelve days; and in her discourse.she fetched not so few as forty or fifty... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1826
...chiefest happiness to see her in safety and in health, which I wished might long continue. She took mebytk hand, and wrung it hard ; and said, ' No, Robin. I am not well ;' and then discoursed with me of ha indisposition ; and that her heart had been sail and heavy for ten or twelve days ; and in her discourse... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1835
...her. I kissed her hand, and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety and in health. She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said,' No, Robin ! I am not well;' and then discoursed to me of her indisposition, and that /« r In in t had been sad'and heavy for ten or twelve days. In... | |
 | Biography - 1835
...relates, with the quaintness of the time, the circumstances of his visit to her on her deathbed. " She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days ; and in her discourse she fetched not... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Great Britain - 1835
...her. I kissed her hand, and told her it was my chiefest happiness to see her in safety and in health. She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said, ' V', Robin ! I am not well;' and then discoursed to me of her indisposition, and that In r heart had... | |
 | Biography - 1836
...relates, with the quaintness of the time, the circumstances of his visit to her on her deathbed. " She took me by the hand, and wrung it hard, and said that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days ; and in her discourse she fetched not... | |
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I am not well,' and then discoursed with me of her indisposition, and that her heart had been sad and heavy for ten or twelve days ; and in her discourse, she fetched not so few as forty or fifty great sighs. I was grieved at the first to see her in this... 
