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  • No noise but owls’ and wolves’ death-boding cries; 165

    The Rape of Lucrece 1914

  • During the nine months that I was in China I saw thousands of opium-smokers, but I never saw one to whom it could be applied that description by Lay (of the British and Foreign Bible Society), so often quoted, of the typical opium-smoker in China "with his lank and shrivelled limbs, tottering gait, sallow visage, feeble voice, and death-boding glance of eye, proclaiming him the most forlorn creature that treads upon the ground."

    AN AUSTRALIAN IN CHINA Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920 1895

  • During the nine months that I was in China I saw thousands of opium-smokers, but I never saw one to whom could be applied that description by Lay (of the British and Foreign Bible Society), so often quoted, of the typical opium-smoker in China "with his lank and shrivelled limbs, tottering gait, sallow visage, feeble voice, and death-boding glance of eye, proclaiming him the most forlorn creature that treads upon the ground."

    An Australian in China Being the Narrative of a Quiet Journey Across China to Burma George Ernest Morrison 1891

  • Banshees, until in only a few retired districts of the west coast is the dreaded spirit still found, while in most parts of the island she has become only a superstition, and from the majesty of a death-boding angel, is rapidly sinking to a level with the Fairy, the Leprechawn and the

    Irish Wonders 1878

  • No noise but owls 'and wolves' death-boding cries;

    The Rape of Lucrece 1593

  • No noise but owls’ and wolves’ death-boding cries;

    The Rape of Lucrece 2004

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