 | 1822 - 384 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing- rather to die than live." She was then executed, amid the tears of the spectators. A variety... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 392 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing rather to die than live." She was then executed, amid the tears of the spectators. A variety... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 462 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...destroy my own life, "being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." " Say you, therefore, Egeria, that the laws whicli led to such effects were... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 464 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." " Say you, therefore, Egeria, that the laws which led to such effects were... | |
 | John Galt - 1824 - 474 sidor
...malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, andseeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison, or ever...destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." " Say you, therefore, Egeria, that the laws which led to such effects were... | |
 | 1825 - 320 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...purpose to destroy my own life, being weary of it, and chusing rather to die than live." This unhappy creature is said to have been executed amid the tears... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1830 - 372 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live ;' — and so died. Which lamentable story, as it did then astonish all the... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 302 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live.' Sir George Mackenzie says that he went to examine some women who had confessed,... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1831 - 316 sidor
...a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a witch, disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of my coming out of prison,...destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live. Sir George Mackenzie says that he went to examine some women who had confessed,... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - 1833 - 496 sidor
...under the name of a witch, — disowned by my husband and friends, and seeing no ground of hope of ray coming out of prison, or ever coming in credit again,...destroy my own life, being weary of it, and choosing rather to die than live." — And so died. It was remarkable that the number of supposed witches seemed... | |
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I take it wholly upon myself — my blood be upon my own head ; and as I must make answer to the God of heaven presently, I declare I am as free of witchcraft as any child ; but being delated by a malicious woman, and put in prison under the name of a... 
