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" Turner called to the sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work. He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he... "
Moral & Political Truth: Or Reflections Suggested by Reading History and ... - Page 194
by Jacob Franklin Heston - 1811 - 401 pages
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A Biographical Dictionary: Containing a Brief Account of the First Settlers ...

John Eliot - Frontier and pioneer life - 1809 - 528 pages
...the sheriff's men to bring Peters' to see what was doing ; which, being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him, How he liked this work ? He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst. And when he was...
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Pictorial Modern History: From the Discovery of America by Columbus to the ...

John Frost - History, Modern - 1846 - 386 pages
...quartering of Coke. When that deed was done, the executioner came to him, rubbing his bloody hands, and asked him how he liked that work. He answered that he was not at all terrified, and met the same fate with a quiet smile upon his countenance. These details might be greatly multiplied,...
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London: Its Literary and Historical Curiosities

Frederick Saunders - Authors, English - 1854 - 292 pages
...the sheriff's men, to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him, " how he liked that work ? " The answer of the brave and high-principled man was simply that he was not at all terrified, and...
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England's Greatness: Its Rise and Progress in Government, Laws, Religion ...

John Wade - England - 1856 - 862 pages
...quartered, Peters, who was the next victim, was brought forward to see what was doing ; and the executioner, rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him, how he liked that work ? Such brutal scenes may have been equalled, but were hardly exceeded, by the Septembrisers of the...
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The Memoirs of Edmund Ludlow: The Lieutenant-general of the Horse ..., Volume 2

Edmund Ludlow - Great Britain - 1894 - 604 pages
...Thomas Scot. 1660 to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work ? He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst. And when he was upon the ladder,...
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Cornish Characters and Strange Events

Sabine Baring-Gould - Cornwall (England : County) - 1909 - 942 pages
...the sheriff's men to bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done, the executioner came to him, and rubbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work. He told him he was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst, and when he was on the ladder...
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Niles' Weekly Register, Volume 11

United States - 1817 - 454 pages
...bring Mr. Peters to see what was doing ; which being done the executioner came to him, and nibbing his bloody hands together, asked him how he liked that work ? He told him he was was not at all terrified, and that he might do his worst. And when upon the ladder,...
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