 | Samuel Eliot Morison - United States - 1927 - 562 pages
...Welles, ' lay extended diagonally across the bed, which was not long enough for him. . . . His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that he took. His features were calm and striking.' The room and the house were uncomfortably crowded. It was a dark and gloomy night, and rain fell at... | |
 | David J Eicher - History - 2002 - 992 pages
...exposed, were of a size which one would scarce have expected from his spare appearance. His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that he took. His features were calm and striking." Mary Todd Lincoln wept inconsolably in an adjacent room, sometimes joining her wounded husband; Robert... | |
 | Allen C. Guelzo - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 532 pages
...the night. "The giant sufferer lay extended diagonally across the bed," Welles wrote in his diary. "His features were calm and striking. I had never...than for the first hour, perhaps, that I was there." But as the night wore one, Lincoln's "right eye began to swell and that part of his face became discolored."... | |
 | Edward Steers - History - 2005 - 404 pages
...the bed which was not long enough for him. He had been stripped of his clothes. . . . His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that...swell and that part of his face became discolored. . . . The night was dark, cloudy, and damp, and about six it began to rain." It was "a little past... | |
 | Thomas Goodrich - History - 2005 - 386 pages
.... . . were of a size which we would scarce have expected from his spare appearance. His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that he took. His features were calm and striking/ Indeed, the president's great strength and stamina were astonishing to those who witnessed the struggle.... | |
 | Th Goodrich - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 380 pages
.... . . were of a size which we would scarce have expected from his spare appearance. His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that he took. His features were calm and striking.8 Indeed, the president's great strength and stamina were astonishing to those who witnessed... | |
 | Carl Sandburg - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 476 pages
...exposed, were of a size which one would scarce have expected from his spare appearance. His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that...swell and that part of his face became discolored." One by one the other Cabinet members arrive till all are in the Petersen house except Seward and McCulloch.... | |
 | David J. Eicher - History - 2007 - 376 pages
...exposed, were of a size which one would scarce have expected from his spare appearance. His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that he took. His features were calm and striking."44 Lincoln's death marked the end of any possibility of a smooth, peaceful reconciliation... | |
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He had been stripped of his clothes. His large arms, which were occasionally exposed, were of a size which one would scarce have expected from his spare appearance. His slow, full respiration lifted the clothes with each breath that he took. His features... 