 | 1865 - 642 pages
...some act of violence or deed of blood ; the plume torn from his casque by the struggling victim, lies on the floor sprinkled with the blood shed in the...energy to prevent the closing, the stifled cries, the hopelessness of resistance. Yet there, like a watchful sentry, waiting in silence, the animal crouches,... | |
 | Frederic George Stephens - Artists - 1880 - 174 pages
...some act of violence or deed of blood ; the plume, torn from the casque of the struggling man, lies on the floor sprinkled with the blood shed in the...closed portal ; we recognize the scuffle of the moment, his hand clutching the door-post with fearful energy to prevent the closing, the stifled cries, the... | |
 | Victoria and Albert museum - 1884 - 314 pages
...some act of violence or deed of blood ; the plume torn from his casque by the struggling victim, lies on the floor sprinkled with the blood shed in the...victim was borne within the now closed portal; we recognise the scuffle of the moment, the hand clenching the doorpost with fearful energy to prevent... | |
 | South Kensington Museum - Artists - 1893 - 460 pages
...some act of violence or deed of blood ; the plume torn from his casque by the struggling victim, lies on the floor sprinkled with the blood shed in the...victim was borne within the now closed portal ; we recognise the scuffle of the moment, the hand clenching the doorpost with fearful energy to prevent... | |
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... not watch with the faithful hound in deep " suspense" for some token that he yet lives ? Others, again, may read the picture far differently ; they may imagine that the dog has tracked the author of some act of violence or deed of blood ; the plume... 