 The axe leant against the rail, and two masked figures stood like mutes on either side at the back. The Queen of Scots as she swept in seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not a muscle of her face could be seen to quiver; she ascended...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Strona 1141870Pełny widok - Informacje o książce
 | 1870 - Liczba stron: 604
...masked figures stood like mutes on either side at the back. The Queen of Scots as she swept in seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...followed and took their places, the Sheriff stood at her led hand, and Beale then mounted a platform and read the warrant aloud. In all the assembly Mary Stuart... | |
 | Public school series - 1874 - Liczba stron: 408
...figures stood like mutes on either side at the back. The Queen of Scots, aa she swept in, seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...then mounted a platform and read the warrant aloud. She laid her crucifix on her chair. The chief executioner took it as a perquisite, but was ordered... | |
 | John Miller D. Meiklejohn - 1880 - Liczba stron: 426
...figures stood like mutes on either side at the back. 9. The Queen of Scots, as she swept in, seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...absolute composure, looked round her smiling, and sat down. Shrewsbury and Kent followed, and took their places, the sheriff stood at her left hand,... | |
 | Blomfield Jackson - 1880 - Liczba stron: 226
...figures stood like mutes6 on either side at the back. The Queen of Scots as she swept in seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant'. Not a muscle8 of her face could be seen to quiver ; she ascended the scaffold with absolute composure, looked... | |
 | Henry Elliot Shepherd - 1881 - Liczba stron: 368
...figures stood like inutes on either side at the back. The Queen of 15 Scots as she swept in seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...absolute composure, looked round her smiling, and sat down. Shrewsbury and Kent followed and took their places, the sheriff stood at her left hand, and... | |
 | James Anthony Froude - 1881 - Liczba stron: 670
...figures stood like mutes on either side at the back. The Queen of Scots, as she swept in^ seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...absolute composure, looked round her smiling, and sale down. Shrewsbury and Kent followed and took their places, the Sheriff stood at her left hand,... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1881 - Liczba stron: 856
...Queen of Hcots. as she swept in. seemed аз if coming to take a part in pome solemn pageant. Tïot a muscle of her face could be seen to quiver; she ascended the pcaifoki with absoluto composure, looked round her pmlling, and sat down. Shrewsbury and Kent followed,... | |
 | Coleman E. Bishop - 1883 - Liczba stron: 384
...figures stood like mutes on either side at the back. The Queen of Scots, as she swept in, seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...absolute composure, looked round her smiling, and sat down. Shrewsbury and Kent followed and took their places, the sheriff stood at her left hand, and... | |
 | Short essays - 1885 - Liczba stron: 208
...figures stood like mutes on either side at the back. The Queen of Scots, as she swept in, seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...absolute composure, looked round her smiling, and sat down. Shrewsbury and Kent followed, and took their places, the sheriff stood at her left hand,... | |
 | Arthur Martin Wheeler - 1886 - Liczba stron: 402
...figures stood like mutes on cither side at the back. The Queen of Scots, as she swept in, seemed as if coming to take a part in some solemn pageant. Not...absolute composure, looked round her smiling, and sat down. Shrewsbury and Kent followed and took their places, the sheriff stood at her left hand, and... | |
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