 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1872 - 252 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us " writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. July 12th. A solemn fast day for the plague growing upon us. 13th. Above 700 died of the plague this... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1874 - 504 pages
...' Lord have mercy upon us ' writ there ; which was a sad Conduit at Lcadcnhail, erected 16(15. nght to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw." VOL. rv.— 113. The red cross upon the doora was too familiar to the elder population of London. In... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Tobacco - 1876 - 392 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us ! ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my...smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll tobacco, * Dr. Willis, who constantly visited the sick during the Great Plague, and has left us a treatise upon... | |
 | Frederick William Fairholt - Tobacco - 1876 - 426 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us ! ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my...smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll tobacco, * Dr. Willis, who constantly visited the sick during the Great Plague, and has left us a treatise upon... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1876 - 564 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Great Britain - 1876 - 564 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and " Lord have mercy upon us" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. It put me into an ill conception of myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco to smell... | |
 | Stephen Denison Peet, J. O. Kinnaman - America - 1880 - 370 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us ! ' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to...myself and my smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco, to smell to, and chaw, which took away my apprehension."8 The "Fair)' Pipes" of Ireland... | |
 | America - 1880 - 356 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us!' writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to...saw. It put me in an ill conception of myself and nay smell, so that I was forced to buy some roll-tobacco, to smell to, and chaw, which took away my... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors, and ' Lord have mercy upon us,' writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that to my remembrance I ever saw. July izth. A solemn fast-day for the plague growing upon us. 1 3th. Above 700 died of the plague thie... | |
 | Lucy Phillimore - Architects - 1881 - 392 pages
...marked with a red cross upon the doors and " Lord have mercy upon us ! " writ there ; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. '•August \bth. — To the Exchange, where I have 1 Diary, vol. ii. p. 273, et scq., ed. 1828. THE... | |
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This day, much against my will, I did in Drury Lane see two or three houses marked with a red cross upon the doors, and "Lord have mercy upon us!" writ there; which was a sad sight to me, being the first of the kind that, to my remembrance, I ever saw. 
