 | 1823 - 626 pages
...mother's hand, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle, and let...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 upon. One of the children... | |
 | 1822 - 694 pages
...Streaming with blood, and hardly inanimate, it was thrown into a rice mortar. The pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads... | |
 | William Martin Harvard - India - 1823 - 508 pages
...mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let...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... | |
 | William Martin Harvard - India - 1823 - 546 pages
...streaming with blood, and hardly inanimate, it was thrown into a rice mortar ; the pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one, the heads... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Missionaries - 1825 - 846 pages
...and she was ordered to pound it, or to be disgracefully tortured!! To avoid the threatened disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let...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... | |
 | Thomas Smith - Missionaries - 1825 - 852 pages
...and she was ordered to pound it, or to be disgracefully tortured!! To avoid the threatened disgrace, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let...One by one the heads of all her children were cut on"; and one by one the poor mother but the circumstance is too dreadful to be dwelt on. — One of... | |
 | Missions - 1799 - 330 pages
...to pound it, or to be disgracefully tortured ! To avoid the 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 mother but the circumstance is too dreadful to be dwelt on. One of the children... | |
 | James Hough - Christianity - 1845 - 728 pages
...mother's hand, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the disgrace the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let...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... | |
 | tennent - 1859 - 694 pages
...streaming with blood, and hardly inanimate, it was thrown into a rice mortar, the pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the infamy, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads... | |
 | 1860 - 580 pages
...was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the infamy, the wretched woman aid lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads of her children were cut off, and one by one the poor mother .... but the circumstance is too dreadful... | |
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By one blow of a sword, the head of this noble child was severed from his body; streaming with blood and hardly inanimate, it was thrown into a rice mortar; the pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully... 
