 | 1837 - Страниц: 634
...sank on the ground before her, and sobbud like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye. — " Oh my dear, dear mother! don't you know your son! your poor boy George V It was indeed the wreck of her once noble lad ; who, shattered by wounds, by sickness, and foreign... | |
 | J[ohn] H[anbury]. Dwyer - 1828 - Страниц: 314
...sank on his knees before her, and sobbed like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye — " Oh my dear, dear mother !...wounds, by sickness, and foreign imprisonment, had, at lengtn, dragged his wasted limbs homeward, to repose among the scenes of his childhood. I will not... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1829 - Страниц: 522
...poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and t wandering eye — " Oh my dear, dear mother ! don't r you know your son ? your poor boy George ?" It was,...to detail the particulars of such a meeting, where sorrow and joy were so completely blended : still he was alive ! — he was come home ! — he might... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1830 - Страниц: 346
...sank on bis knees before her, and sobbed like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye — " Oh my dear, dear mother !...the wreck of her once noble lad ; who, shattered by his wounds, by sickness and foreign imprisonment, had, at length, dragged his wasted limbs homeward,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1831 - Страниц: 518
...sank on his knees before her, and sobbed like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye — " Oh my dear, dear mother !...to detail the particulars of such a meeting, where sorrow and joy were so completely blended : still he was alive ! — he was come home ! — he might... | |
 | John J. Harrod - 1832 - Страниц: 338
...sank on his knees before her, and sobbed like a child. 7. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye — "Oh my dear, dear mother! don't...homeward, to repose among the scenes of his childhood. 8. I will not attempt to detail the particulars of such a meeting, where joy and sorrow were so completely... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1832 - Страниц: 312
...sunk on his krrees before her, and sobbed like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye — " Oh my dear, dear mother !...indeed the wreck of her once noble lad, who, shattered « R'v-ral- bolon'ring to the country. c E-ma'-ci-a-tcd, reduced in flesh. by wounds, by sickness,... | |
 | Moses Severance - 1833 - Страниц: 304
...sunk on his knees before her, and sobbed like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye — " Oh my dear, dear mother !...homeward, to repose among the scenes of his childhood. 23. I will not attempt to detail the particulars of such a meeting, where joy and sorrow were so completely... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1833 - Страниц: 448
...sank on his knees before her, and sobbed like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye: " Oh my dear, dear mother! don't...homeward, to repose among the scenes of his childhood. 1 will not attempt to detail the particulars of such « meeting, where joy and sorrow were so completely... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - 1835 - Страниц: 460
...sank on his knees before her, and sobbed like a child. The poor woman gazed upon him with a vacant and wandering eye : " Oh my dear, dear mother ! don't...wasted limbs homeward, to repose among the scenes o£ \\vs / will not attempt to detail the paifeviavs «l where joy and sorrow were so completely blended;... | |
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It was, indeed, the wreck of her once noble lad; who, shattered by wounds, by sickness, and foreign imprisonment, had at length dragged his wasted limbs homeward, to repose among the scenes of his childhood. 
