 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 874 sivua
...before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given, and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion,... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 880 sivua
...it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | James Milton O'Neill - 1921 - 876 sivua
...it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Andrew Thomas Weaver - 1922 - 424 sivua
...it turns on its hinges without noise, and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | Warren Choate Shaw - 1922 - 488 sivua
...it turns on its hinges without noise ; and he enters, and beholds his victim before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of light. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple,... | |
 | Warren Choate Shaw - 1928 - 694 sivua
...door of the chamber. He enters and beholds his victim before him. The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of the aged temples, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given. Without a struggle or a motion... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1841 - 622 sivua
...largely, and with high commendation, appears to us more remarkable for affectation than force : ey ' The room was uncommonly open to the admission of light....murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks oi'his »ged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim... | |
 | Peter J. Bellis - 2010 - 233 sivua
...ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.. . . The face of the innocent sleeper is turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the grey locks of his aged temple, show him where to strike." 21 Hawthorne does seem to echo Webster's... | |
 | John Davison Lawson - 1917 - 1012 sivua
...before him. The room is uncommonly open to the admission of lightThe face of the innocent sleeper is turned" from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray locks of his aged temple, show him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 798 sivua
...vietim before him. The room was uneommonly open to the admission of light. The faee of the innoeent sleeper was turned from the murderer, and the beams of the moon, resting on the gray loeks of his aged temple, shewed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given ! and the vietim passes,... | |
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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. 
