 | Tobias Smollett - Books - 1817 - 680 pages
...people whom its sound would haw brought to him ; he preferred wanting any thing, and every thins*, to calling for his persecutors. His bed had not been...he had not strength to make it himself — it was ali« with bugs, and vermin still more disgusting. His linen and his person were covered with them.... | |
 | English literature - 1823 - 582 pages
...people whom its sound would have brought to him ; he preferred wanting any thing, and every thing, to calling for his persecutors. His bed had not been....bugs, and vermin still more disgusting. His linen ami his person were covered with them. For more than a year he had had no change of shirt or stockings;... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 496 pages
...much he dreaded their presence, that he preferred wanting any thing and every thing to summoning them. His bed had not been stirred for six months, and he...strength to make it himself: it was alive with bugs and worse creatures. His linen and hU person were covered with them. Every kind of filth had been allowed... | |
 | Walter Scott - 1835 - 452 pages
...preferred Wanting any thing and every thing to the sight of his persecutors. His bed had not been touched for six months, and he had not strength to make it...bugs, and vermin still more disgusting. His linen and hia person were covered with them. For more than a year he had had no change of fahirt or stockings... | |
 | Walter Scott - France - 1835 - 474 pages
...pieferred Wanting any thing an1l every thing to the sight of his persecutors. His bed had not been touched for six months , and he had not strength to make it himself; it was alive with bugs, and vermin stUl more disgusting. His linen and his person were covered with them. For more than a year he had... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - France - 1837 - 550 pages
...brought to him. He preferred wanting anything and everything to calling his persecutors. His bed was not stirred for six months, and he had not strength to make it himself. For more than a year he had no change of shirt or stockings. He might indeed have washed himself, for... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1843 - 406 pages
...preferred wanting any thing and everything to the sight of his persecutors. His bed had not been touched for six months, and he had not strength to make it...disgusting. His linen and his person were covered w1th them. For more than a year he had had no change of shirt or stockings ; every kind of filth was... | |
 | Mrs. Markham - France - 1848 - 648 pages
...to him. He preferred wanting any thing and every thing to calling his persecutors. His bed was not stirred for six months, and he had not strength to make it himself. For more than a year he had no change of shirt or stockings. He might indeed have washed himself, for... | |
 | 1853 - 628 pages
...amplified, and all that we really know of this interval : — ' Unheard of and unexampled barbarity ! to leave an unhappy and sickly infant of eight years...disgusting. His linen and his person were covered « ith them. For more than a year he had had no change of shirt or stockings ; every kind of filth... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1853 - 628 pages
...its sound would have brought to him : he preferred wanting anything, and everything, to calling fo? his persecutors. His bed had not been stirred for...bugs, and vermin still more disgusting. His linen ami his person were covered with them. For more than a year he had had no change of shirt or stockings... | |
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His bed had not been stirred for six months, and he had not strength to make it himself; it was alive with bugs, and vermin still more disgusting. His linen and his person were covered with them. 
