 To avoid the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut off; and one by one, the poor mother - but the circumstance is too dreadful to be dwelt on. One of the children was a...  Ceylon: An Account of the Island Physical - Page 88by Sir James Emerson Tennent - 1859Full view - About this book
 | 1823 - 626 pages
...disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle, and let it fall. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut off; and One by one, the poor...— but the circumstance is too dreadful to be dwelt upon. One of the children was a girl; and to wonnd a female is considered by the Singhalese a most... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...avoid the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads of all her children were cut off; and one by one the poor...mother — but the circumstance is too dreadful to he dwelt on. One of the children was a girl; and to wound a female is considered by the Singalese a... | |
 | John Davy - Sri Lanka - 1821 - 578 pages
...the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut off; and one by one, the poor mother but the circumstance is too dreadful the body, the milk it had just drawn in ran out mingled with its blood. During this tragical scene,... | |
 | William Martin Harvard - India - 1823 - 508 pages
...the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut off; and one by one, the poor...too dreadful to be dwelt on. One of the children was a girl ; and to wound a female is considered by the Singhalese a most monstrous crime: another was... | |
 | William Martin Harvard - India - 1823 - 546 pages
...woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut 08; and one by one, the poor mother — but the circumstance...too dreadful to be dwelt on. One of the children was a girl ; and to wound a female is considered by the Singhalese a most monstrous crime : another was... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Missionaries - 1825 - 846 pages
...disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. — One by one the heads of all her children were cut off; and one by one the poor...dreadful to be dwelt on. — One of the children was a girl ; though to wound a female is considered by the Cingalese as a most monstrous crime ; — another... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Missionaries - 1825 - 852 pages
...did lift up the pestle and let it fall. — One by one the heads of all her children were cut on"; and one by one the poor mother but the circumstance...dreadful to be dwelt on. — One of the children was a girl ; though to wound a female is considered by the Cingalese as a most monstrous crime;— a nm... | |
 | Missions - 1799 - 330 pages
...threatened disgrace, the wretched voman did lift up the pestle, and let it fall. One by one the heads of all her children were cut off ; and one by one the poor...too dreadful to be dwelt on. One of the children was a girl, though to wound a female is considered by the Cingalese as a most monstrous crime : another... | |
 | Periodicals - 1837 - 260 pages
...pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut off, and one by one the poor...too dreadful to be dwelt on. One of the children was a girl; and to wound a female is considered by the Singalese a most monstrous crime another was an... | |
 | 1837 - 538 pages
...pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it. One by one, the heads of all her children were cut off, and one by one the poor...mother — but the circumstance is too dreadful to bo dwelt on. One of the children was a girl; and to wound a female is considered by tho Singalese a... | |
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