 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 272 pages
...prognostic of death. The time is judged according to the height of it about the person; for if it is not seen above the middle, death is not to be expected...towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shown me,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1810 - 468 pages
...prognostick of death : the time is judged according to the height of it about the person ; for if it is seen above the middle, death is not to be expected...towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shewn me,... | |
 | Walter Scott - Arthurian legend - 1810 - 454 pages
...prognostick of death : the tune is judged according to the height of it about the person ; for if it is seen above the middle, death is not to be expected...towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shewn me,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Wyoming Valley (Pa.) - 1810 - 266 pages
...and sometimes years, according to the time of the night the vision is seen. " When a shroud is seen about one, it is a sure prognostic of death. The time...according to the height of it about the person; for if it is. not seen above the middle, death is not to be expected for the space of a year, and perhaps some... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1811 - 458 pages
...death: the time is judged according to the height of it about the person ; for if it is seen above tlie middle, death is not to be expected for the space...towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a fc'.v days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shewn me,... | |
 | Scotland - 1820 - 438 pages
...the time is judged according to the height of it about the person ; for if it is not seen above^the middle, death is not to be expected for the space...towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shewn me,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart.) - 1820 - 282 pages
...judged according to the height of it about the person ; for if it is seen above the middle, death ii not to be expected for the space of a year, and perhaps...towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were shewn me,... | |
 | Scotland - 1820 - 424 pages
...accomplishment, by weeks, months, and sometimes years, according to the time of night the vision is seen. When a shroud is perceived' about one, it is a sure...according to the height of it about the person ; for if it is not seen above the middle, death is not to be expected for the space of a year, and perhaps some... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1821 - 254 pages
...according to the height of it ahout the person ; for if it is not seen ahove the middle, death is not to he expected for the space of a year, and perhaps some...ascend higher towards the head, death is concluded to he at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily experience confirms. Examples of this kind were... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1826 - 294 pages
...accomplishment, by weeks, months, and sometimes years, according to the time of night the vision is seen. " When a shroud is perceived about one, it is a sure...according to the height of it about the person ; for if it is not seen above the middle, death is not to be expected for the space of a year, and perhaps some... | |
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... seen above the middle, death is not to be expected for the space of a year, and perhaps some months longer ; and as it is frequently seen to ascend higher towards the head, death is concluded to be at hand within a few days, if not hours, as daily... 
