 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 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...resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, showed him 451 where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion,... | |
 | John Francis Knapp - Trials (Murder) - 1830 - 258 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...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, shewed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim... | |
 | North America - 1769 - 366 pages
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 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 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...to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death! It is the assassin's... | |
 | John Todd - 1837 - 968 pages
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 | Harriet Martineau - Biography & Autobiography - 1838 - 932 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...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
 | Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...and con. tinned pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to...murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
 | George Willson - Elocution - 1840 - 298 pages
...lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges ; and he en6 ters, and beholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of lithe innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray... | |
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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. 
