 | George Washington, Jared Sparks - United States - 1855 - 638 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...said ; " Do you understand me ?" I replied, " Yes." " JT is well," said he. About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven o'clock),... | |
 | Biographies of American leaders - 1855 - 624 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 ?'... | |
 | 1856 - 964 pages
...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 you understand me?" I replied :— " Yee, Sir." "Tie well," said he, and these were his last words, and 'tis well his last words... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1857 - 594 pages
...o'clock he made several efforts to spe.ik 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1859 - 468 pages
...Lear, "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...and said, 'Do you understand me?' I replied, 'Yes.' ''Tiswell,' said he. " About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven o'clock)... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1859 - 478 pages
...Lear, "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...looked at me again and said, " Do you understand me ? " 1 replied, " Yes." " 'Tis well," said he. " About ten minutes before he expired (which was between... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1859 - 802 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?'... | |
 | Washington Irving - Celebrities - 1859 - 524 pages
...bowed assent, for I could not speak. He then looked at me again and said, " Do you understand me ?" T replied, " Yes." " Tis well," said he. " About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven o'clock) his breathing became easier. He lay quietly; he withdrew his hand from mine and... | |
 | J. T. Headley - 1859 - 528 pages
...steady but rapid ebbings of life. At ten he whispered in a low, husky, scarcely articulate voice, " I am going — have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put in the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand me? Well." It was fearful to... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1860 - 804 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...ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven o'clock), his breathing became easier. He lay quietly; he withdrew his hand from mine, and... | |
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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. 
