 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 Seiten
...chamber. Of this he moves the 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... | |
 | Salem Town - 1848 - 300 Seiten
...chamber. Of this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on itshingjs; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The...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... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 Seiten
...this, he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 Seiten
...he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 Seiten
...this he moves the lock by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters and beholds his victim before him. The room...murderer, and 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... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 Seiten
...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; and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal 11 yet plies the dagger, though... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 Seiten
...chamber. Of this he moves 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 light. The face of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer ; and the beams of the moon, resting... | |
 | 1850 - 216 Seiten
...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....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 passes, without a struggle... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 578 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 596 Seiten
...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. 
