 | Benson John Lossing - Mount Vernon - 1870 - 460 pages
...Washington attempted to speak to Mr. Lear, but failed several times. At length he murmured : " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." Mr. Lear could not speak, but bowed his assent. Washington whispered, " Do you understand ?" Lear replied,... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1871 - 240 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...I am dead." I bowed assent, for I could not speak. Ho then looked at me again and said : " Do you understand me r1 I replied, " Yes." " 'T is well," said... | |
 | JAS. D. M'CABE, JR. - 1871 - 1164 pages
...made several attempts to speak, and at length, with great difficulty, he whispered to Mr. Lear, U I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." He then looked at Mr. Lear, and said, " Do you understand me ? " Mr. Lear replied, " Yes," when the... | |
 | James D. McCabe - United States - 1871 - 1172 pages
...made several attempts to speak, and at length, with great difficulty, he whispered 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." He then looked at Mr. Lear, and said, " Do you understand me ? " Mr. Lear replied, " Yes," when the... | |
 | George Washington - 1872 - 220 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." " T is well," said he. About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven o'clock),... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1873 - 550 pages
...Lear, "he made several attempts to speak to me before he ?iiuld effect it. At length he said, ' I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let...again and said, ' Do you understand me ? ' I replied, * Yos,' ' 'Tis well,' said he. " About ten minutes before he expired (which was between ten and eleven... | |
 | Frances Mary Owen - 1873 - 280 pages
...At ten o'clock he tried several times to speak to Mr. Lear, and at last managed to whisper, " I am just going ; have me decently buried, and do not let...the vault in less than three days after I am dead. Do you understand me ?" Mr. Lear replied, " Yes." " 'Tis well," he said. Mrs. Washington was kneeling... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1873 - 544 pages
...to let me go off quietly." To a gentleman of his household, engaged in his affairs, he said : " I am just 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 ? " " Yes," said the addressed... | |
 | R. M. DEVENS - 1876 - 1014 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...looked at me again and said, " Do you understand me ?" "Yes/' I replied. "'Tis WELL," said he; the last words which he ever uttered on earth. With surprising... | |
 | Robert Sears - United States - 1876 - 664 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 VI... | |
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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. 
