 The executioner was going to blindfold him, but he refused to let him, saying, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself?  Men of deed and daring - Page 21by Edward N. Marks - 1861Full view - About this book
 | David Jardine - 1835 - 534 lehte
...block, the executioner would have blindfolded him ; upon which he rebuked him, saying, ' Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself ?' He gave the headsman a sign when he should strike, by lifting up his hands ; and the executioner... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1839 - 564 lehte
...it will cure all diseases." The executioner going to blindfold him, he refused, saying, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself? " He gave the signal by stretching out his hands, and his head was struck off in two blows. "Every... | |
 | Kālīkṛṣṇa (Deva raja.) - 1841 - 500 lehte
...diseases." The executioner was going to blindfold him, but he refused to let him, saying, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself?" He gave the signal by stretching out his hands, and his head was struck off at two blows. The Princes... | |
 | Charles Selby - 1854 - 338 lehte
...diseases." The executioner was going to blindfold him, but he refused to let him, saying, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself?" He gave the signal by stretching out his hands, and his head was struck off at two blows.* KeigiUley's... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 lehte
...The executioner offered to bind a handkerchief around his eyes, but he refused, saying, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself?" Then laying his head on the block, he stretched out his hands as the fatal signal, and with two strokes... | |
 | H S Brooke - 1856 - 312 lehte
...diseases." The executioner was 'going to blindfold him, but he refused to let him, saying, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself?" He gave the signal by stretching out his hands, and his head was struck off at two blows. The chief... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1876 - 1148 lehte
...will cure all diseases." The executioner going to blindfold him, he t'e fused, saying, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself?" He gave the signal by stretching out his hands, and his head was struck off in two blows. l( Every... | |
 | John Jacob Anderson - 1882 - 798 lehte
...diseases.' The executioner was going to blindfold him, but he refused to let him, saying, ' Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself*' He gave the signal by stretching out his hands, and bis head was struck off at two blows."— Keightlfy's... | |
 | John Buchan - 1911 - 304 lehte
...Dean's will. He was offered a bandage for his eyes, which he put away. " Think you," he asked, " that I fear the shadow of the axe when I fear not the substance ? " He kneeled and laid his head on the block, and as he kneeled he cried to the people,... | |
 | Milton Waldman - 1928 - 296 lehte
...way the head lie, so the heart be right." He refused to be blindfolded, with the remark, " Think you I fear the shadow of the axe, when I fear not the axe itself." When he was ready he stretched out his hands, the agreed sign to strike, but apparently the headsman... | |
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