 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...lock, by soft and continual pressure, till it turns on its hinges ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light. 4. The face of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 pages
...soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, 451 showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle... | |
 | Salem Town - 1848 - 300 pages
...the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on itshingjs; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...The face of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer,and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...the beams of the moon resting on the gray locks of the aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...and beholds his victim before him. The roorr. was uncommonly open to the admission of light. The 9 face of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer;...aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal 11 yet plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon.... | |
 | 1850 - 216 pages
...law arguments are excellent, witness his speech on the prosecution of Knapp, tried for murder : — " The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light....murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temples, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 578 pages
...before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a... | |
 | 1852 - 42 pages
...the assassin into the chamber ; — the face of the innocent sleeper turned from the murderer ; — the beams of the moon resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showing where to strike ; — the fatal blow ; — the passing of the victim, without a struggle or... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 596 pages
...it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 658 pages
...it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple,... | |
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With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. 
