... that she had not confessed because she was guilty, but being a poor creature who wrought for her meat, and being defamed for a witch, she knew she would starve, for no person thereafter would either give her meat or lodging, and that all men would... Tales - Page 394by Harriet Martineau - 1836Full view - About this book
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1823 - 636 pages
...being a poor creature, who wrought for her meat; and being defamed for a witch, she knew she should starve, for no person thereafter would either give...that therefore she desired to be out of the world : whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness what she said.' — This... | |
| Walter Scott - Biography & Autobiography - 1830 - 372 pages
...examine some women who had confessed judicially, and one of them, who was a silly creature, told me under secresie, that she had not confessed because...that therefore she desired to be out of the world ; whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said. Another... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - Witchcraft - 1831 - 316 pages
...that he went to examine some women who had confessed, and that one of them, who was a silly creature, told him, ' under secresie' ' that she had not confessed...that therefore she desired to be out of the world.' — Whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said ! A... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - History - 1831 - 302 pages
...that he went to examine some women who had confessed, and that one of them, who was a silly creature, told him, ' under secresie' ' that she had not confessed...that therefore she desired to be out of the world.' — Whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said ! A... | |
| Walter Scott - Authors, English - 1837 - 936 pages
...she would starve, for no person thereafter would either give her meat or lodging, and that all meb would beat her and hound dogs at her, and that therefore she desired to be out of the world ; whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said. Another... | |
| Rev. John Sommers - Mid Calder (Scotland) - 1838 - 108 pages
...women who had confessed judicially. " One of them, who was a silly creature, told him, under secrecy, that she had not confessed because she was guilty,...that therefore she desired to be out of the world ; whereupon she wept most bitterly, and, upon her knees, called God to witness what she said." Another... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1830 - 624 pages
...no person hereafter would give her meat or lodgings, and that all men would best her and hound dngs at her, and that therefore she desired to be out of the world. Whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees * Some of our readers may wish to see a specimen... | |
| Child rearing - 1845 - 356 pages
...examine some women who had confessed judicially, and one of them, who was a silly creature, told me under secresie,. that she had not confessed because...that therefore she desired to be out of the world ; whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said. Another... | |
| 1853 - 792 pages
...no person thereafter would either give her meat or lodging, and that all men would beat her and set dogs at her, and that, therefore, she desired to be out of the world ; whereupon she wept most bitterly, and upon her knees called God to witness to what she said.' Sir... | |
| 1854 - 512 pages
...starve, for no person alter that would give her meat and lodging, and that all men would beat her and set dogs at her; and that therefore she desired to be out of the world ; and with that she wept most bitterly." One way of ascertaining whether people were witches or not,... | |
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