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" This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us! "
The Cabinet of Curiosities; Or, Wonders of the World Displayed: Forming a ... - Page 68
1833
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The Antiquary's Portfolio: Or Cabinet Selection of Historical & Literary ...

J. S. Forsyth - Great Britain - 1825 - 422 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us,' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." The account of the plague is not so historical as we have elsewhere read it ; but it is full of authentic...
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Historical Parallels, Volume 2

Arthur Thomas Malkin - History - 1835 - 440 pages
...there, which was a sad sight to me, being the first of that kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." : June 17 — " It struck me very deep this afternoon, going with a hackney-coach down Holborn, from the Lord Treasurer's : the coachman I found to drive easily and easily, at last...
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Museum of Foreign Literature and Science, Volume 7

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1825 - 622 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us !" writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. — 'To St. James's, and did our usual business before the Duke of York; which signified little, our...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us," writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. July 12th. A solemn fest-day for the plague growing upon us. 13th. Above 700 died of the plague this...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys: Secretary to the ..., Volume 3

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1848 - 466 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco...
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Spiritual Heroes: Or, Sketches of the Puritans, Their Character and Times

John Stoughton - Puritans - 1848 - 356 pages
...his hour was come ; and who but must bo deeply affected with the following passage in Pepys's Diary: "June 17. It struck me very deep this afternoon, going with a hackney-coach down Holborn, from the Lord Treasurer's, the coachman I found SPIRITUAL HEROES. to drive easily and...
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Eclectic Magazine, and Monthly Edition of the Living Age, Volume 24

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1851 - 606 pages
...manifestly no wish that the extent of these gratuities should be generally known, nor the persons sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me in an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll tobacco...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the ..., Volume 2

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 532 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco...
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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F.R.S.: Secretary to the ..., Volume 2

Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1854 - 508 pages
...cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us ! " writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, heing the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 74

American essays - 1894 - 1020 pages
...with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord, have mercy upon us ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw." The unabridged diary constantly deepens our sense of what may almost be called the pitiless veracity...
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