 | George Washington Parke Custis - Generals - 1860 - 670 pages
...tranquil * " At length," he said, " I am just going. Have me decently buried ; and do not let my body bo put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead." — Mr. Lear's statement. t " Dr. Craik," says Mr. Lear, " put his hands over his eyes, and he expired... | |
 | William C. Smith - Homiletical illustrations - 1860 - 376 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, " Yes, sir." " Tis well," said he, and these were his last words, and 'tis well his last words were " 'Tis... | |
 | HON. J. Y. HEADLEY - 1860 - 502 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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1862 - 464 pages
..." 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...looked at me again and said, 'Do you understand me?' I re' plied, 'Yes.' "Tis well,' said he. his wrist. I took it in mine and pressed it to my bosom. Dr.... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 898 pages
...several ineffectual attempts to speak intelligibly, he said to Mr. Lear, his secretary : " I am just going.; have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault till three days after I am dead." He presently said : " i)o you understand me ?" and on Mr. Lear's... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1863 - 874 pages
...several ineffectual attempts to speak intelligibly, he said to Mr. Lear, his secretary : " I am just going ; have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault till three days after I am dead." He presently 'said: " Do you understand me ?" and on Mr. Lear's replying... | |
 | William Thomas Roberts Saffell - Mount Vernon - 1864 - 142 pages
...trouble about me. Let me go off quietly." "He took whatever was offered him." "I am just going," said he, "have me decently buried, and do not let my body be...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." "Do you understand me ?" he inquired. "I replied, yes." " 'Tis well," said he. "He felt his own pulse.... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Hough - 1865 - 292 pages
...o'clock he made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it. At length he said, ''lam just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my...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... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 466 pages
..." 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...looked at me again and said, ' Do you understand me 1 ' I replied, ' Yes.' ' 'Tis well,' said he. "About ten minutes before he expired (which was between... | |
 | John Stevens Cabot Abbott - Politics, Practical - 1867 - 524 pages
...and made several unavailing attempts to speak intelligibly. About ten o'clock, he said, " I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault until three days after I am dead. Do you / understand me ? " To the reply, " Yes, sir," he remarked,... | |
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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. 
