 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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 grey locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - 1876 - 454 pages
...the door. On the words beholds hit victim, the hand is lowered, as if to point to the victim sleeping before him. The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light. On the words uncommonly open, the eye turns as if the speaker were inside the room and glancing up... | |
 | Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert - 1877 - 112 pages
...again. 11. Bedrooms should face the east, and let in the full flush of morning light. — Beecher. 12. The beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed the assassin where to strike. — Webster. 13. Mary has failed in reciting her lesson. 14. If I see... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1877 - 478 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 grey locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 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,... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1878 - 508 pages
...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... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 358 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,... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - 1879 - 350 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,... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - 1879 - 262 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, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1879 - 780 pages
...it turns on its hinges without noise; and he enters, and beholds hLs 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 ou 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. 
