 | James Walter - Presidents - 1886 - 412 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...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... | |
 | James Walter - Presidents - 1887 - 418 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...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... | |
 | Joseph West Moore - 1887 - 320 pages
...o'clock he said to me, ' I am fast THE HALL AT MOUNT VERNON. going. Have me decently interred, but do not let my body be put into the vault in less than three days after I am dead.' I bowed assent. He then looked at me again and said : ' Do you understand?' I replied, ' Yes.' ' Tis well,' said he.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Perry - Statesmen - 1887 - 644 pages
...Craik, " I die hard, but I am not afraid to go." To Mr. Lear, his private secretary, he said, " I am going, have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the vault till three days after I am dead." He inquired of Mr. Lear if he understood him, and on being assured... | |
 | James Harrison Kennedy - Presidents - 1888 - 802 pages
...easier, and spoke a few times. At 10 o'clock he said to Mr. Lear, with much difficulty : " I am just going ; have me decently buried, and do not let my...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." Lear bowed, in answer, for emotion prevented his speaking. The general looked up and asked : " Do you... | |
 | Presidents - 1889 - 56 pages
...uttered sigh or complaint. At 10 o'clock, after making several attempts to speak, he said, ' I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my...the vault in less than three days after I am dead.' Ten minutes before he expired his breathing became easier; he lay quietly, when his countenance changed,... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - Presidents - 1889 - 420 pages
...again to Lear, although it required a most desperate effort to do so. " I am just going," he said. " Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." Lear bowed, and Washington said, " Do you understand me ? " Lear answered, " Yes." " 'T is well," he... | |
 | George Washington - Presidents - 1799 - 574 pages
...made several attempts to speak to me before he could effect it — at length, he said, " / am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than two [three] days after I am dead." — I bowed assent [for I could not speak]. — He [then] looked... | |
 | William M. Thayer - History - 1890 - 520 pages
...o'clock he appeared to make a desperate effort to speak, and at length said to Mr. Lear : " I am just going. Have me decently buried, and do not let my...the vault in less than three days after I am dead." Mr. Lear signified his assent by a nod. As if not satisfied with that, Washington looked up to him... | |
 | George G. Evans - Washington (D.C.) - 1892 - 296 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...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... | |
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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. 
