 ... 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
 | Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoflfeupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds...the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of thv chamber. Of this, he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers, American - 1861 - 450 pages
...prepared, into an unoccupied apartment ; wife noiseless foot, he paces the lonely hall, half-lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent' of the stairs,...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupicd 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1864 - 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,...pressure, till it turns on its hinges; and he enters, and heholds his victim before him. The room was uncommonly light. The face of the innocent sleeper was... | |
 | Nathaniel Kirk Richardson - Readers - 1866 - 204 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... | |
 | Benjamin W. Atwell - Elocution - 1867 - 106 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...it turns on its hinges ; and he enters and beholds Ins victim before him. The room was uncommonly light. The face of the innocent sleeper was turned from... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, halflighted 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 the... | |
 | John Todd - 1868 - 342 pages
...this he moves the lock, by soft and continued pressure, till it turns on its hinges without noise ; he enters, and beholds his victim before him " The room was uncommonly open to the admission ot light. The face of the innocent sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon,... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 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...the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber." After using the present tense for a few minutes, he returns to the narrative style, and says : "The... | |
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