 | Sir William Henry Sleeman - India - 1844 - 510 pages
...drink." Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the Nerbudda river, she said calmly, " My soul has been for five days...his in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or your usage wantonly to prolong the miseries of a poor old woman." " Indeed it is not, — my object... | |
 | Mrs. Manning (Charlotte Speir) - Brahmanism - 1856 - 530 pages
...dared not eat or drink. Looking at the sun then rising over a beautiful reach of the Nerbudda river, she said calmly, " My soul has been for five days...his in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or your usage wantonly to prolong the miseries of a poor old woman." After much conversation, she convinced... | |
 | William Butler - India - 1872 - 568 pages
...drink.' Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the Nerbudda River, she said calmly, ' My soul has been for five days...his in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or your usage wantonly to prolong the miseries of a poor old woman.' I replied, ' Indeed it is not... | |
 | William Butler - India - 1873 - 590 pages
...drink.' Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the Nerbudda River, she said calmly, ' My soul has been for five days...his in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or your usage wantonly to prolong the miseries of a poor old woman.' I replied, ' Indeed it is not... | |
 | Mark Twain - Literary Criticism - 1897 - 780 pages
...or drink. Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the river, she said calmly, ' My soul has been for five days...this, I know, you will in time suffer to be mixed with his ashes in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or usage wantonly to prolong the miseries... | |
 | Mark Twain - Australia - 1897 - 536 pages
...or drink. Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the river, she said calmly, " My soul has been for five days...this, I know, you will in time suffer to be mixed with his ashes in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or usage wantonly to prolong the miseries... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1899 - 432 pages
...or drink. Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the river, she said calmly, ' My soul has been for five days...this, I know, you will in time suffer to be mixed with his ashes in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or usage wantonly to prolong the miseries... | |
 | Mark Twain - American literature - 1899 - 430 pages
...or drink. Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the river, she said calmly, ' My soul has been for five days...this, I know, you will in time suffer to be mixed with his ashes in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or usage wantonly to prolong the miseries... | |
 | Mark Twain - American fiction - 1899 - 442 pages
...or drink. Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the river, she said calmly, * My soul has been for five days...this, I know, you will in time suffer to be mixed with his ashes in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or usage wantonly to prolong the miseries... | |
 | Mark Twain - 1901 - 438 pages
...or drink. Looking at the sun, then rising before her over a long and beautiful reach of the river, she said calmly, ' My soul has been for five days...this, I know, you will in time suffer to be mixed with his ashes in yonder pit, because it is not in your nature or usage wantonly to prolong the miseries... | |
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... her ashes with those of her departed husband, and should patiently wait my permission to do so, assured that God would enable her to sustain life till that was given, though she dared not eat or drink. Looking at the sun, then rising before her over... 
