 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,...  Retrospect of Western Travel - Side 284av Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 239 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 296 sider
...sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The aasassin enters through the window, already prepared, into...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.... | |
 | Salem Town - 1845 - 264 sider
...sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The aasassin enters through the window, already prepared, into...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.... | |
 | C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 sider
...in rejtose, rather than in octitm ; not somuch an example of human nature, in its depravity, and in The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. W itli noiseless toot he paces the lonely hall, half-lighted by the moon ; he winds up courage, it... | |
 | Salem Town - 1847 - 420 sider
...sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. 3. 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.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 524 sider
...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,...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848 - 514 sider
...through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. — With noiseless foot he pacca 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... | |
 | Salem Town - 1848 - 300 sider
...sweet, the first" sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but string embrace; The aasassin enters through the window, already prepared, into...apartment.* with noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, "fcalf-ljghted-tby the moon; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Nathaniel Hawthorne, James Russell Lowell, John Greenleaf Whittier, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 388 sider
...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,...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 sider
...his roof. A heathful 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,...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 660 sider
...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,...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... | |
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