 | Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1908 - 352 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks " in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. " Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are " full of...life beats tremulous " and faint, and bloodshot eyes look-out through the " darkness, which is around and within, for the light of a " stern last morning.... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Charles Seymour - France - 1915 - 298 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from the Rabenstein? — their gallows must... | |
 | Thomas Carlyle, Charles Seymour - France - 1915 - 298 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from the Rabenstein? — their gallows must... | |
 | Bliss Perry - Authors, Scottish - 1915 - 302 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms, and dancingrooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from the Rabenstein? — their gallows must... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - Gesture - 1917 - 452 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow : comes no hammering from the Rabenstein ? — their gallows... | |
 | Lee Emerson Bassett - Elocution - 1917 - 372 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from the Rabenstein? — their gallows must... | |
 | Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from the Rabenstein? 1 — their gallows... | |
 | John Drinkwater - Literature - 1927 - 604 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from the Rabenstein?— their gallows must... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - English prose literature - 1923 - 290 pages
...boxes. " Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancingrooms, are full of light and music and high swelling hearts ; but, in the condemned cells, the pulse of...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. " Six men are to be hanged on the morrow : their gallows must even now be a-building. " Upwards of... | |
 | Joseph Albert Mosher - Gesture - 1920 - 668 pages
...picklocks and crowbars, or lurks in wait till the watchmen first snore in their boxes. Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light...and within, for the light of a stern last morning. Six men are to be hanged on the morrow: comes no hammering from the Rabenstein ? — their gallows... | |
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Gay mansions, with supper-rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of life beats tremulous and faint, and bloodshot eyes look out through the darkness, which is around and within,... 
