The Quarterly Review, Volume 120John Murray, 1866 - English literature |
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Page 46
... gang to be removed to Dunkirk , and being advised that their condition at that place would be one of less suffering than if they waited till the departure of the next body destined for Marseilles , they submitted to their fate .
... gang to be removed to Dunkirk , and being advised that their condition at that place would be one of less suffering than if they waited till the departure of the next body destined for Marseilles , they submitted to their fate .
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In addition to these there were about fifty free mariners , who worked the sails and otherwise helped in the management of the vessel ; there were also about a hundred soldiers , and a considerable body of officers , who were required ...
In addition to these there were about fifty free mariners , who worked the sails and otherwise helped in the management of the vessel ; there were also about a hundred soldiers , and a considerable body of officers , who were required ...
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Six miserable creatures cowering in a heap one over the other under each bench , all perfectly naked , for none of them had had strength left to put on their shirts ; most of them bloody , from the stripes of the whip , and their bodies ...
Six miserable creatures cowering in a heap one over the other under each bench , all perfectly naked , for none of them had had strength left to put on their shirts ; most of them bloody , from the stripes of the whip , and their bodies ...
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a loud cry . bad received in different parts of his body . But there was no help or succour to be had , for all around him had been killed , both on his own bench , and the benches immediately before and behind him ; so that out of the ...
a loud cry . bad received in different parts of his body . But there was no help or succour to be had , for all around him had been killed , both on his own bench , and the benches immediately before and behind him ; so that out of the ...
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Then it was that blows of sticks and strokes of the whip rained down upon them , and this horrid treatment failing to animate their poor bodies , frozen as they were with cold , some of them stretched stiff in death , others dying ...
Then it was that blows of sticks and strokes of the whip rained down upon them , and this horrid treatment failing to animate their poor bodies , frozen as they were with cold , some of them stretched stiff in death , others dying ...
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 120 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1866 |
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