 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - 1879 - 508 sider
...circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet — tlie first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. 8. The assassin... | |
 | Adams Sherman Hill - 1881 - 324 sider
...circumstances now clearly in evidence spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof....apartment. 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 1 Coleridge... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 sider
...and in his own bed, is made the victim of a butcherly murder, for mere pay. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof....was sweet — the first sound slumbers of the night hold him iu their soft but strong embrace. The aasassin enters through the window, already prepared,... | |
 | Alonzo Reed, Brainerd Kellogg - 1896 - 416 sider
...short. Exercises on the Composition of the Sentence and the Paragraph. EXTRACT FROM DANIEL WEBSTER. 1. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. 2. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent... | |
 | Arnold Tompkins - 1897 - 376 sider
...impression that it seems to be present, as in this passage from Webster's description of a murder: — " The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...apartment. 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."... | |
 | John Francis Xavier O'Conor - 1898 - 364 sider
...circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof....apartment. 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.... | |
 | Sherman Williams - 1898 - 514 sider
...circumstances, now clearly in evidence, spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof....apartment. 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;... | |
 | Elias J. MacEwan - 1898 - 440 sider
...circumstances now clearly in evidence spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof....enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoc^ l Pages 8-11, 223. a April 7. cupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall,... | |
 | 1900 - 448 sider
...circumstances now clearly in evidence spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof....apartment. 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.... | |
 | 1900 - 448 sider
...circumstances now clearly in evidence spread out the whole scene before us. Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof....apartment. 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.... | |
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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,... 
