 | 1823 - 626 pages
...and hardly inanimate, it was thrown into a rice mortar ; the pestle was put into the mother's hand, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully...— but the circumstance is too dreadful to be dwelt upon. One of the children was a girl; and to wonnd a female is considered by the Singhalese a most... | |
 | John Davy - Sri Lanka - 1821 - 578 pages
...stepped forward ; he bid his brother not to be afraid, — he would show him the way to die ! By one blow of a sword, the head of this noble child was...the poor mother but the circumstance is too dreadful the body, the milk it had just drawn in ran out mingled with its blood. During this tragical scene,... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads of...mother — but the circumstance is too dreadful to he dwelt on. One of the children was a girl; and to wound a female is considered by the Singalese a... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Missionaries - 1825 - 846 pages
...hand, — and she was ordered to pound it, or to be disgracefully tortured!! To avoid the threatened disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle...to be dwelt on. — One of the children was a girl ; though to wound a female is considered by the Cingalese as a most monstrous crime ; — another was... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Missionaries - 1825 - 852 pages
...hand, — and she was ordered to pound it, or to be disgracefully tortured!! To avoid the threatened disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle...One by one the heads of all her children were cut on"; and one by one the poor mother but the circumstance is too dreadful to be dwelt on. — One of... | |
 | Missions - 1799 - 330 pages
...to pound it, or to be disgracefully tortured ! To avoid the threatened disgrace, the wretched voman did lift up the pestle, and let it fall. One by one...dreadful to be dwelt on. One of the children was a girl, though to wound a female is considered by the Cingalese as a most monstrous crime : another was a sucking... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...thrown into a ricemortar, the pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut...mother — but the circumstance is too dreadful to bo dwelt on. One of the children was a girl; and to wound a female is considered by tho Singalese a... | |
 | Charles Pridham - Sri Lanka - 1849 - 530 pages
...pound it, or be disgracefully tortured, and defiled by the Rhodias. To avoid the horrid alternative, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let...one the heads of all her children were cut off, and on one by one the poor mother had to perform the hellish operation. One of the children was a girl,... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the infamy, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads of her children were cut off ; and one by one the poor mother . . . but the circumstance is too dreadful... | |
 | 1860 - 660 pages
...mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the infamy, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads of her children were cut off, and one by one the poor mother .... but the circumstance is too dreadful... | |
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By one blow of a sword, the head of this noble child was severed from his body; streaming with blood and hardly inanimate, it was thrown into a rice mortar; the pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully... 
