 | James A. Flanagan - Co-operation - 1920 - 564 pages
...spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Conrad Gill, Charles Wilfred Valentine - Great Britain - 1921 - 338 pages
...which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent,...expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Georgia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1922 - 496 pages
...which has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death." The laws of the present time compare... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...has paid seven per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., hastity: The deep air listen 'd round her as she rode, And all th a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. SYDNEY SMITH — Review of Seybert's Annals.... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - Great Britain - 1923 - 696 pages
...into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz-bed, which has paid 22 per cent., — makes his will on an eight pound stamp,...expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Alpheus Hyatt Verrill - Smugglers - 1924 - 390 pages
...has paid 7%, into a spoon that has paid 15%, flings himself back on his chintz bed that has paid 22%, makes his will on an eight pound stamp and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid one hundred pounds license for the privilege of putting him to death. Or again, take the incident of... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Free enterprise - 1925 - 104 pages
...into a spoon which has paid 15 per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent, makes his will on an eight pound stamp,...expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Federico Llaverías - Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) - 1925 - 544 pages
...has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back in his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two percent, makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires...the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - History - 1927 - 200 pages
...has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | George Alexander Johnston - Citizenship - 1928 - 316 pages
...flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. . . . His virtues are handed down to posterity... | |
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... for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble... 
