 | 1860 - 580 páginas
...was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the infamy, the wretched woman aid lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads of her children were cut off, and one by one the poor mother .... but the circumstance is too dreadful... | |
 | Sir Edwin Arnold - 1886 - 414 páginas
...mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it or be disgracefully tortured. To avoid the infamy, the wretched woman did lift up the pestle and let it fall. One by one the heads of her children were cut off ; and one by one the poor mother But the circumstance is too dreadful to... | |
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By one blow of a sword, the head of this noble child was severed from his body; streaming with blood and hardly inanimate, it was thrown into a rice mortar; the pestle was put into the mother's hands, and she was ordered to pound it, or be disgracefully... 
