 | Barrett Wendell - 1900 - 604 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,... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 334 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,... | |
 | 1900 - 448 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,... | |
 | W. V. Byars - 1901 - 616 pages
...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...showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given t and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of... | |
 | William Vincent Byars - 1901 - 614 pages
...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...showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given I and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck, Frank R. Stockton, Julian Hawthorne - 1901 - 450 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 motion,... | |
 | 1874 - 252 pages
...and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly 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 motion,... | |
 | Samuel Walker McCall - 1902 - 146 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 41 the victim passes, without a struggle or... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1902 - 564 pages
...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 the admission of light. 9. The face of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - 1903 - 656 pages
...before him. The room is uncommonly open to the adinis sion 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 motion,... | |
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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. 
