 ... 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, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 451by Daniel Webster - 1830 - 520 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds...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... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1851 - 328 pages
...enters through the window, already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment ; with noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds...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... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 pages
...through the window, already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. 'With noiseless foot he passes the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds...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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds...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... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot, he. paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the 6 moon: he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches...door of the chamber. Of this, he moves the lock, by 7 soft and continued pressure, till it tunis on its hinges ; and 8 he enters, and beholds his victim... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 656 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of £he stairs, aqd reaches ' r .. ' the door of the chamber* XJf this, he moves trie lock, by sottf and... | |
 | Orestes Augustus Brownson - 1852 - 580 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds...and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the... | |
 | Joseph Banvard - 1853 - 390 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment ; with noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds...and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters and beholds his victim before him ; the room is uncommonly open to the... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 658 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds...and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the... | |
 | Lewis C. Munn - 1853 - 450 pages
...prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half-lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of the stairs,...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... | |
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