 | William Bailey - 1826 - 244 páginas
...honour the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary ! I will defend the passage to it, though I perish. You may succeed and enter it, but...over my corpse.' ' By God ! ' said the officer, ' if musquets were placed in the hands of a few such women, our only safety would be found in retreat :... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1833 - 286 páginas
...honor, the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary! I will defend the passage to it, though I perish. You may succeed, and enter it, but it shall be over my corpse." " If muskets were only placed in the hands of few such women," said the officer, "our only safety would... | |
 | Author of The young man's own book - 1836 - 322 páginas
...honour the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary ! I will defend the passage to it though I perish. You may succeed, and enter it, but it shall be over my corpse." " Indeed," said the officer, " if muskets were only placed in the hands of a few such women, our only... | |
 | 1837 - 490 páginas
...honour, the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary ! I will defend the passage to it, though I perish. You may succeed and enter it, but...over my corpse." " By God !" said the officer, " if musket were placed in the hands of a few such women, our only safety would be found in retreat ; your... | |
 | 1837 - 486 páginas
...honour, the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary ! I will defend the passage to it, though I perish. You may succeed and enter it, but...over my corpse." " By God !" said the officer, " if musket were placed in the hands of a few such women, our only safety would be found in retreat ; your... | |
 | William Grimshaw - 1840 - 342 páginas
...over my corpse." — The officer was, for a moment, speechless. " If muskets," he exclaimed, " were placed in the hands of a few such women, our only safety would be in retreat. Your heroism, Madam, protects you; I relinquish the pursuit." So much, indeed, were the... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 296 páginas
...be over my corpse." " If muskets were only placed in the hands of few such women," said the officer, "our only safety would be found in retreat. Your intrepidity,...security ; from me you shall meet no further annoyance." Not is -this the only instance of her unconquerable fortitude. At Brabant, the seat of the respectable... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - 1846 - 292 páginas
...honor, the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary! I will defend the passage to it, though I perish. You may succeed, and enter it, but it shall be over my corpse." " If muskets were only placed in the hands of few such women," said the officer, "our only safety would... | |
 | Jesse Clement - 1851 - 496 páginas
...of honor the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary! I will defend the passage to it though I perish. You may succeed, and enter it, but...security ; from me you shall meet no further annoyance.' " At Brabant, the seat of the respectable and patriotic Bishop Smith, a sergeant of Tarleton's dragoons,... | |
 | Oliver Bell Bunce - 1852 - 484 páginas
...honor the chamber of a lady should be as sacred as the sanctuary ! I will defend the passage to it though I perish. You may succeed, and enter it, but...security ; from me you shall meet no further annoyance.' " At Brabant, the seat of the respectable and patriotic Bishop Smith, a sergeant of Tarleton's dragoons,... | |
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... contest, and were silent ; but, undaunted by their threats, this intrepid lady placed herself before the chamber into which the unfortunate fugitive had been conducted, and resolutely said, ' To men of honor the chamber of a lady should be as sacred... 
