 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work; and he yet...the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,... | |
 | John Francis Knapp - Trials (Murder) - 1830 - 258 pages
...victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death ! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work, and he yet...heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poignaid ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the. repose of death. It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work, and he yet...finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer ! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,... | |
 | Law - 1832 - 504 pages
...victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death ! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work ; and he...life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon, lie even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it again over... | |
 | Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death ! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work; and he yet...even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in bis aim at the heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard? To finish the picture he... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1835 - 1166 pages
...obvious that lift; liad been '!•stroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. — He even raises the agfd arm. that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it again ni г the wounds of the poniard! To finish, the picture, he explore« tht wrist for the pulse! he feels... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death ! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work ; and he...obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon.—He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Biography & Autobiography - 1838 - 932 pages
...victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose of death ! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work ; and he...finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Slavery - 1838 - 354 pages
...repose of sleep to the repose of death! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work; and he jet plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life...the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse! he feels it, and ascertains that it beats no longer! It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...repose of death ! 7. It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work; and he TU g MU It n ERER . 263 yet plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life...finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains that it beats no longer ! It is accomplished. The deed is done. lie... | |
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... him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep... 
