I doubt not a justice-loving public will have remarked, ere this, that I have thus far shown a criminal remissness in pursuing, catching, and bringing to condign punishment the would-be assassin of Mr. Robert Moore: here was a fine opening to lead my willing readers a dance, at once decorous and exciting: a dance of law and gospel, of the dungeon, the dock, and the 'dead-thraw.' ❋ Unknown (2004)
Ingoldsby, her cousin-german by the mother's side; but the Baron was too far gone in the dead-thraw to recognize either. ❋ Various (N/A)
And wha ever heard of a door being barred when a man was in the dead-thraw? ❋ Unknown (1917)
Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words in the dead-thraw! ❋ Unknown (1917)
Oh, but ye maun come hame, sir! ye maun come hame! we have sent for the Sheriff, and well set a watch here á night, in case the gipsies return; but youye maun come hame, sir, for my ladys in the dead-thraw. ❋ Unknown (1917)
They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that the deil tinkles at the lykewake of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. ❋ Unknown (1917)
Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words ‘in the dead-thraw!’ as if he could not comprehend their meaning, suffered the old man to drag him towards his horse. ❋ Unknown (1815)
'And wha ever heard of a door being barred when a man was in the dead-thraw? how d'ye think the spirit was to get awa through bolts and bars like thae?' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
They likewise carefully watch the corpse by night and day till the time of interment, and conceive that "the deil tinkles at the lyke-wake" of those who felt in their dead-thraw the agonies and terrors of remorse. ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Sheriff, and we'll seta watch here a 'night, in case the gipsies return; but YOU -- ye maun come hame, sir, for my lady's in the dead-thraw.' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
Bertram turned a stupefied and unmeaning eye on the messenger who uttered this calamitous news; and, repeating the words 'in the dead-thraw!' as if he could not comprehend their meaning, suffered the old man to drag him towards his horse. ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
'Think of his having left my cause in the dead-thraw between the tyneing and the winning, and capering off into Cumberland here, after a wild loup-the-tether lad they ca' Darsie Latimer. ' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
We have sent for the Sheriff, and we'll seta watch here a 'night, in case the gipsies return; but YOU -- ye maun come hame, sir, for my lady's in the dead-thraw.' ❋ Walter Scott (1801)
