 | Charles Bruce (writer of tales.) - 1875 - 942 páginas
...person. But perceiving that he wanted to go off without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat, that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands, but I kept such strong hold, that he dragged me on my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room. At last one of the blue... | |
 | English history - 1881 - 888 páginas
...person. But perceiving that he wanted to go off without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat, that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands ; but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me npon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room. At lost one of the... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1884 - 442 páginas
...Nithisdale Perceiving that he wanted to go off without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands, but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me upon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room.' One of the attendants... | |
 | Justin McCarthy, Justin Huntly McCarthy - 1884 - 434 páginas
...Nithisdale Perceiving that he wanted to go off without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands, but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me upon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room.' One of the attendants... | |
 | Justin McCarthy - 1884 - 440 páginas
...Nithisdale Perceiving that he wanted to go off without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands, but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me upon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room.' One of the attendants... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - 1884 - 1152 páginas
...scene : — " I caught hold of the skirt of his coat, that he might stop and hear me. He endeavored to escape out of my hands ; but I kept such strong hold, that he dragged me upon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room. At last one of the... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1890 - 360 páginas
...monarch, essayed to present their petitions. Said Lady Nithisdale afterwards, in describing the scene : " I caught hold of the skirts of his coat that he might...hands ; but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me upon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room. At last one of the... | |
 | William Henry Wilkins - 1901 - 484 páginas
...person. But perceiving that he wanted to go on without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands, but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me upon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room. At last one of the... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 370 páginas
...But, perceiving that he wanted to go off without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat, that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands ; but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me upon my knees from the middle of the room to the very door of the drawing-room. At last one of the... | |
 | Philip Gilbert Hamerton - 1906 - 354 páginas
...presence. He would have gone out without answering her, but she writes, " I caught hold of the skirt of his coat that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured...hands, but I kept such strong hold that he dragged me on my knees from the middle of the room to the very door. At last one of the Blue Ribands who attended... | |
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Nithisdale, that he might not pretend to be ignorant of my person. But perceiving that he wanted to go off without receiving my petition, I caught hold of the skirt of his coat, that he might stop and hear me. He endeavoured to escape out of my hands... 
