 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1914 - 428 pages
...black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant : his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it...placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend; think how unpleasant a situation ! He bore it all with... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - American letters - 1914 - 136 pages
...of black cloth, with a train of five yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it...placed over the mouth of the vault into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend; think how unpleasant a situation! He bore it all with... | |
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...Attending the funeral of a father, however little reason he had so to love him, could not be pleasant. His leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it...placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend — "i think how unpleasant a situation ! He bore it all... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1926 - 338 pages
...COPY OF BENTLEY'S Patriotism: A Mock-Heroic reason so ever he had to love him, could not be pleasant. His leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it...placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend — think how unpleasant a situation! He bore it all with... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 602 pages
...of black cloth, with a train of live yards. Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant: his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it...late paralytic stroke, which has affected too one ot his eyes, and placed over the mouth of the vault, into which, in all probability, he must himself... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - England - 1870 - 788 pages
...circumstances. He had a dark brown adonis (sic), and a cloak of black cloth, with a train of five yards. His leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it...bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke Placed over the mouth of the vault into which, in all probability, he must himself so soon descend... | |
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Attending the funeral of a father could not be pleasant ; his leg extremely bad, yet forced to stand upon it near two hours ; his face bloated and distorted with his late paralytic stroke, which has affected, too, one of his eyes ; and placed over the... 
