 | Jared Sparks - Presidents - 1839 - 666 pages
...made several attempts to speak to me LJ»I niniw before he could effect it. At length he said ; " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let...body be put into the vault in less than three days alter I am dead." I bowed assent, for I could not speak. He then looked at me again and said ; "Do... | |
 | 1839 - 580 pages
...o'clock he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it ; at length he said, ' I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead.' I bowed assent. He looked at me again and said, ' Do you understand me ?'... | |
 | Robert W. Lincoln - Presidents - 1842 - 610 pages
...ten o'clock he made several attempts to speak before he could effect it. He at length said, " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be put in the vault in less than two days after I am dead." His attending physician bowed assent He looked... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1843 - 738 pages
...made several attempts to speak to me LasI nine» before he could effect it. At length he said ; " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let...said ; " Do you understand me ?" I replied, " Yes." " 'T is well," said he. About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven o'clock),... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Art - 1845 - 900 pages
...restless, often asking what o'clock it was. About ten, he said with some difficulty to Mr Lear, " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." Towards eleven o'clock, he died without a struggle or sigh. Mrs Washington, who was sitting at the... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1845 - 250 pages
...o'clock he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it ; at length he said, " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead." I bowed assent. He looked at me again, and said, " Do you understand me... | |
 | Horatio Hastings Weld - Presidents - 1846 - 250 pages
...o'clock he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it ; at length he said, " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead." I bowed assent. He looked at me again, and said, " Do you understand me... | |
 | Literature - 1856 - 604 pages
...long." About 10 o'clock he made several attempts to speak to Mr. Lear, and at last said : — "I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead." Lear says : — "I bowed assent. He looked at me again and said: — "Do... | |
 | Jared Sparks - 1853 - 638 pages
...speak to me L«t ninew before he could effect it. At length he said ; " I am just going. Washington Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be...said ; " Do you understand me ?" I replied, " Yes." " 'T is well," said he. About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven o'clock),... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1854 - 668 pages
...VIRGINIA. he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it ; at length he said : ' I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than two days after I am dead.' I bowed assent. He looked at me again and said, ' Do you understand me 1'... | |
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I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead. 
