| Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 páginas
...the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him 451 where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion,... | |
| John Francis Knapp - 1830 - 258 páginas
...the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, shewed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 páginas
...the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death! It is the assassin's... | |
| Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 932 páginas
...the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges, and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
| Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 páginas
...and con. tinned pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
| George Willson - 1840 - 298 páginas
...lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges ; and he en6 ters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of lithe innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 682 páginas
...largely, and with. high commendation, appears to us more remarkable for affectation than force : e. </. ' The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light....the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer, aud the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike.... | |
| 1841 - 618 páginas
...sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his nged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without u struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death ! It is the assassin's purpose... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 334 páginas
...and continued pressure, till it turns on 1 its hinges without noise; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on (he gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The filial blow is given! and the victim... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 330 páginas
...It was the weighing of motiei/ against I its hin gee without noise; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light. The fare of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the t)eams of the moon, resting on the... | |
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