 | William Hickling Prescott - 1843 - 538 páginas
...unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity....prisoner was stretched. Five priests secured his head and his limbs ; while the sixth, clad in a scarlet mantle, emblematic of his bloody office, dexterously... | |
 | 1854 - 744 páginas
...unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity....On the summit he was received by six priests, whose long1 and matted locks flowed disorderly over their sable robes, covered with hieroglyphic scrolls... | |
 | Louisa Caroline Tuthill - 1848 - 512 páginas
...unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the instruments of music with which he had solaced the hours of captivity....summit he was received by six priests, whose long and malted locks flowed disorderly over their sable robes, covered with hieroglyphic scrolls of mystic... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 560 páginas
...unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity,...of mystic import. They led him to the sacrificial stonç» a huge block of jasper, with its upper surface somewhat convex. On this the prisoner was stretched.... | |
 | John Frost - 1852 - 562 páginas
...the unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and roke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity....hieroglyphic scrolls of mystic import. They led him to tlio sacrificial stone, a huge block of jasper, with its upper surface somewhat convex. On this the... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1852 - 436 páginas
...unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity....received by six priests, whose long and matted locks flo%ved disorderly over their sable robes, covered with hieroglyphic scrolls of mysticimport. They... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - 1853 - 532 páginas
...unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity. On the summit he was received Jby six priests, whose long and matted locks flowed disorderly over their sable robes, covered with... | |
 | William Dalton - 1862 - 556 páginas
...chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the long hours of captivity. On the summit he was received...prisoner was stretched. Five priests secured his head and hia limbs; while the sixth, clad in a scarlet mantle, emblematic of his bloody office, dexterously... | |
 | Hudson Tuttle - 1869 - 294 páginas
...unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the hours of captivity....was received by six priests, whose long and matted lodes flowed disorderly over their sable robes, covered with hieroglyphic scrolls of mystic import.... | |
 | William Dalton - 1872 - 636 páginas
...of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments with which he had solaced the long hour.-; of captivity. On the summit he was received by six...prisoner was stretched. Five priests secured his head and his limbs ; while the sixth, clad in a scarlet mantle, emblematic of his bloody office, dexterously... | |
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Hither the inhabitants of the capital flocked, to witness the consummation of the ceremony. As the sad procession wound up the sides of the pyramid, the unhappy victim threw away his gay chaplets of flowers, and broke in pieces the musical instruments... 
