 | John Harland, Thomas Turner Wilkinson - 1873 - 344 pages
...Lucas speaks, when he says that, according to tradition, " while in London, in a drunken frolic, he vowed to his companions that he would kill the first man he met ; then, sallying forth, he ran his sword through a poor tailor. Soon after this, being in a riot, a... | |
 | John Harland - 1873 - 332 pages
...Lucas speaks, when he says that, according to tradition, " while in London, in a drunken frolic, he vowed to his companions that he would kill the first man he met ; then, sallying forth, he ran his sword through a poor tailor. Soon after this, being in a riot, a... | |
 | John Henry Ingram - 1884 - 340 pages
...had the skull never been removed ; but, withal, it keeps alive the credibility of its believers. " What I can learn of the above affair from old people...of the Downes family, being in London, one night in hi& frolics vowed to his companions that he would kill the first man he met ; and accordingly he ran... | |
 | John H. Ingram - 1886 - 668 pages
...happened had the skull never been removed; but, withal, it keeps alive the credibility of its believers. " What I can learn of the above affair from old people...accordingly he ran his sword through a man immediately, a tailor by trade. However, justice overtook him in his career of wickedness ; for, in some while after,... | |
 | John Henry Ingram - 1886 - 706 pages
...had the skull never been removed ; but, withal, it keeps alive the credibility of its believers. " What I can learn of the above affair from old people...being in London, one night in his frolics vowed to his compauions that he would kill the first man he met ; and accordingly he ran his sword through a man... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1887 - 588 pages
...stopped had the skull never been removed; but withal it keeps alive the credulity of its believers. What I can learn of the above affair from old people...the Downes family, being in London, one night in his frolic vowed to his companions that he would kill the first man he met. Accordingly he ran his sword... | |
 | John Henry Ingram - 1897 - 706 pages
...had the skull never heen removed ; but, withal, it keeps alive the credibility of its believers. " What I can learn of the above affair from old people...accordingly he ran his sword through a man immediately, a tailor by trade. However, justice overtook him in his career of wickedness ; for, in some while after,... | |
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... out-housing. We hearing of this, my father went over in a few days after to see his mother, who lived near the Hall, and was witness to the wreck the storm had made. Yet all this might have happened had the skull never been removed; but, withal, it... 