 | Samuel Johnson - 1851 - 228 pages
...guard, imagining many expedients by which the loss of Pekuah might have been prevented, and resolving to do something for her recovery, though none could find anything proper to be done. Nekayah retired to her chamber, where her women attempted to comfort her by telling her that all had... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Conduct of life - 1857 - 452 pages
...guard, imagining many expedients by which the loss of Pekuah might have been prevented, and resolving to do something for her recovery, though none could find anything proper to be done. Nekayah retired to her chamber, where her women attempted to comfort her by telling her that all had... | |
 | William Beckford - 1883 - 456 pages
...guard, imagining many expedients by which the loss of Pekuah might have been prevented, and resolving to do something for her recovery, though none could find anything proper to be done. Nekayah retired to her chamber, where her women attempted to comfort her by telling her that all had... | |
 | William Beckford - Fiction - 1883 - 446 pages
...guard, imagining many expedients by which the loss of Pekuah might have been prevented, and resolving to do something for her recovery, though none could find anything proper to be done. Nekayah retired to her chamber, where her women attempted to comfort her by telling her that all had... | |
 | 1907 - 550 pages
...guard, imagining many expedients by which the loss of Pekuah might have been prevented, and resolving to do something for her recovery, though none could find anything proper to be done. Nekayah retired to her chamber, where her women sttempted to comfort her, by telling her that all had... | |
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... nothing to be hoped from longer stay. They returned to Cairo, repenting of their curiosity, censuring the negligence of the government, lamenting their own rashness, which had neglected to procure a guard, imagining many expedients by which the loss... 