 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...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,...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this, he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges; and he enters,... | |
 | John Francis Knapp - Trials (Murder) - 1830 - 258 pages
...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,...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges; and he enters,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...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,...an unoccupied apartment. — With noiseless foot he pates the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...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,...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this, he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges ; and he enters,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...sleep was sweet, the first sound •lumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges ; and he enters... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...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,...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges, and he enters,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment.—With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this, he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges; and he enters... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - America - 1838 - 288 pages
...whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters through the window, already prepared,...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges, and he enters,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...was sweet, — the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. 6. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared,...of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber. Of this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise... | |
 | John Todd - Christian education of children - 1839 - 444 pages
...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,...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 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. 
