 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 Seiten
...whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...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... | |
 | John Francis Knapp - 1830 - 258 Seiten
...whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through. the window already prepared,...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1830 - 518 Seiten
...whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...an unoccupied apartment. — With noiseless foot he pates the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 Seiten
...sleep was sweet, the first sound •lumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...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... | |
 | 1832 - 504 Seiten
...whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...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... | |
 | 1834 - 614 Seiten
...whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters through the window already prepared,...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... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 Seiten
...embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment.—With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted...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.... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 288 Seiten
...whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters through the window, already prepared,...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... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 Seiten
...was sweet, — the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. 6. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper was turned... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 Seiten
...sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters through a window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment....the chamber. Of this, he moves the lock, by soft and con. tinned pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters, and beholds his victim... | |
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Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,... 
