 | David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...hottest day that ever I felt in " my life. 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' writ there." Again, on June 29, " To Whitehall, where the Court full of " waggons and people ready to go out of... | |
 | Lucy Phillimore - Great Britain - 1881 - 392 pages
...The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. '•August \bth. — To the Exchange, where I have 1... | |
 | Lucy Phillimore - Great Britain - 1881 - 426 pages
...The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. ' August ittk. — To the Exchange, where I have 1 Diary,... | |
 | Daniel Defoe, Gideon Harvey - Fires - 1882 - 456 pages
...The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury-lane see two or three houses marked with a Red Cross upon the...there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." Again, on the 16th of July, Pepys wrote thus:—" Lord's... | |
 | Blackwood William and sons - 1883 - 136 pages
...re-joic'-ing on the 7th of June : " The .hottest day that ever I felt in all my life. In Drury Lane I saw two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us ' written there ; which was a sad sight to me." 3. As soon as the plague began, every one who could... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1884 - 370 pages
...Then despairing of her coming home, I to bed. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...; 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,... | |
 | Joseph H. Beale - World history - 1884 - 1152 pages
..."the hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." The red cross upon the doors was too familiar to the elder... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1885 - 442 pages
...The hottest day that ever I felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...; 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,... | |
 | Alfred Waites - Smoking - 1887 - 104 pages
...This day, much againft my will, I did in Drury Lane fee two or three houfes marked with a red crofs upon the doors, and 'Lord Have mercy upon us!' writ there; which was a fad fight to me, being the firft of the kind to my remembrance I ever faw. It put me into an ill conception... | |
 | John H. Lloyd (of Highgate.) - Highgate (London, England) - 1888 - 552 pages
...the hottest day that I ever felt in my life. This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the...; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I- ever saw."3 "The pestilence spread rapidly. The great heat of the... | |
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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!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever... 
