Soon, however, on seeing the rude treatment to which her victim was subjected-when she witnessed the jostling, and heard the jeers of his triumphant captors, her spirit recoiled from the act she had committed; and, when, at length, the courtyard gate was closed upon the betrayed patriot, the daughter of Dick Dancey fell prostrate upon the sward, and bedewed the grass with tears of bitter repentance!
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Marion looked up-hope beaming in her tear-bedewed eyes.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Even my mother, who hitherto had borne our trials with more than mere fortitude, sat down in a corner of the house, upon the humblest chair that was in it, and which she perhaps thought they would not sell, or that it would not be worth their selling, and there, with an infant child at her bosom, she rocked her head in misery, and her secret tears bedewed the cheeks of her babe.
"Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX"
Alexander Leighton