 ... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death...  The Quarterly review - Pagina 421841Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Otis Henry Tiffany - 1883 - 954 pagina’s
...aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given, and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion from the repose of sleep to the...his aim at the heart, and replaces it again over the wound of the poniard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels for it,... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pagina’s
...aged temple, showed him where to strike.4 The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...assassin's purpose to make sure work ; and he yet plies the dagger,5 though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pagina’s
...aged temple, showed him where to strike.4 The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...assassin's purpose to make sure work ; and he yet plies the dagger,5 though it was obvious that life had been -destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 pagina’s
...his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given; and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...is the assassin's purpose to make sure work, and he plies the dagger, though it is obvious that life has been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He... | |
 | Walter K. Fobes - 1885 - 200 pagina’s
...his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given, and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death. It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it... | |
 | 1886 - 562 pagina’s
...his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given, and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...is the assassin's purpose to make sure work, and he plies the dagger, though it is obvious that life has been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 818 pagina’s
...his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow ia given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...the assassin's purpose to make sure work ; and he plies the dagger, though it is obvious that life has been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 564 pagina’s
...his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...is the assassin's purpose to make sure work; and he plies the dagger, though it is obvious that life has been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He... | |
 | James Vincent Coombs - 1891 - 420 pagina’s
...aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...his aim at the heart, and replaces it again over the wound of the poniard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and... | |
 | Alphonso Gerald Newcomer - 1893 - 284 pagina’s
...aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death ! . . . Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself, or rather it feels... | |
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