And yet at bottom it is not the King dying, but the Man! ... dumb pain, as they go to the gallows, unregarded; they consume the cup of trembling down to the lees.
Musharraf himself, who stepped down in 2008 and now lives in exile in Dubai, was controversially condemned to death in absentia in December 2019.
... the kitchen; could see from the kitchen into the cellar; no steps down. ... That man, John Billington, came by nooses as a family trade, albeit not of very great ...
A lifelong thief who plundered up and down the Atlantic coast and had the floggings to show for it, Thomas Mount told all about it — and not only his picaresque ...
... the half-brother who had seemed destined for this inheritance until an assassin's bullet struck him down in 1961. He was not equal to the tumultuous political ...
A society fixture whose gift to posterity was setting down (or inventing) that legendary murmur of ... Dr. Johnson, He does not see me now, nor I do not see him.
22 Dec 2007 ... Near me will be people, and to be a person among persons and stay him forever, to not be cast down or despondent no matter what the ...
19 May 2015 ... President Lincoln would not have received an A from the American ... the vast enginery of war without breaking down the safeguards of liberty; ...
1 Nov 2011 ... When I thought they were not looking in my direction I dodged round the corner of the house, again cowering down rather stupidly, not looking ...
12 Jul 2019 ... Some of the captains, fearful of a disgraceful death, or of incurring the king's indignation, kept the peace very well; others did not, for which they ...
12 May 2014 ... But it was the executioner and not Helene who came down from it in pieces. Helene was the beautiful 21-year-old daughter of a royal chatelain, ...
14 Dec 2017 ... After half an hour she was cut down, put in a coffin and carted off to the anatomist, Dr. William Petty. The good Dr. Petty soon realized she wasn't ...
