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Updated: June 12, 2025
There is something almost heroic in the idea of firing off guns for a man who has been stone-dead for about four centuries. It must have had a lively and festive sound in Boston, when the meaning of the salute was explained. No one could hear those great guns without a quicker beating of the heart in gratitude to the great discoverer who had made Boston possible.
Our poor Harry had never before beheld a man killed thus in an instant who a moment before had been so full of life and activity, for when Captain Morgan turned the body over upon its back he could perceive at a glance, little as he knew of such matters, that the man was stone-dead. And, indeed, it was a dreadful sight for him who was hardly more than a child.
The tragic story had been whispered through The Grange until it reached their ears, thrilling them to the core of their hearts with terror. Miss Silver met them calm, grave, inscrutable. "I am afraid it is true," she said, "awfully incredible as it seems. Sir Everard fainted stone-dead, my lady, at sight Of the blood upon the terrace." "Great heavens! it is horrible! That unfortunate girl.
Whether this were no more than an effect of the knight's peculiar humanity, pleased to find at last, that, after all the tragical doings, everything was safe and well, I do not know. But for my own part, I must confess I was so dissatisfied, that I was sorry the poet had saved Andromache, and could heartily have wished that he had left her stone-dead upon the stage. For you cannot imagine, Mr.
I rode round the English picket, and then, as I heard nothing more of them, I concluded rightly that I had at last come through their defences. For five miles I rode south, striking a tinder from time to time to look at my pocket compass. And then in an instant I feel the pang once more as my memory brings back the moment my horse, without a sob or staggers fell stone-dead beneath me!
But I hope presently to congratulate you on the success of your mission. 'I'll bet you a pony you don't, I said. 'I never bet on a professional subject. Why this pessimism? 'Only that I know our gentleman better than you. I've been twice up against him. He's the kind of wicked that don't cease from troubling till they're stone-dead.
That officer having dared in his presence to speak disrespectfully of his father, was suddenly seized about the waist by the enraged young Count, hurled out of the window, and killed stone-dead upon the spot. After this exhibition of his natural feelings, the Spanish government thought it necessary to take more subtle means to tame so turbulent a spirit. Unfortunately they proved successful.
While I was gazing, he let go, pitched headlong, fluttered his wings in the death-struggle, yet in air, and struck the ground close at my feet, stone-dead. Tom's first shot had cut off the whole crown of the head, with half the brain and the right eye; and after that the bird had power to fly five or six hundred yards, and then to cling upon its perch for at least ten minutes.
Straight through the glade came the rush of galloping feet, and an antlered stag swept by like a stone from a sling. So swiftly did he pass that no arrow was ready save Umpl's. His went hurtling after, straight at the back of the tossing head, and the great deer fell in a heap, stone-dead. But what had scared him? Ah! They did not need to ask. Gaunt, grey forms were rushing toward them.
'You look dreadful, exclaimed Mrs. Morgan. 'And you're wet through 'I did a good paper to-day I feel sure I've passed! She sat down to a meal, but could not swallow. 'I feel sure I've passed I feel sure And she fell from the chair, to all appearances stone-dead. They took her upstairs, undressed her, sent for the doctor. When he came, she had been lying for half-an-hour conscious, but mute.
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