| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 378 pages
...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 poignard. To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels it, and... | |
| 1875 - 252 pages
...his agod 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...sure work ; and he yet plies the dagger, though it is obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm, that... | |
| Joseph Banvard - 1875 - 362 pages
...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... | |
| 1876 - 732 pages
...his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given, and the victim passes, wkhout a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poignard! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse! 'he feels it, and ascertains... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...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...sure work ; and he yet plies the dagger, though it is obvious that life has been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm, that... | |
| George Stillman Hillard, Homer Baxter Sprague - Elocution - 1876 - 454 pages
...reproduced the scene by a two-handed blow! 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 ! Repose of sleep. These words call attention to the place of the sleeping victim. On the utterance... | |
| William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...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...life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. 10. He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it again... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...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... | |
| Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1878 - 658 pages
...aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim passes, without a M N O Y Z V d 1 It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work ; and he yet plies the dagger, though it was obvious... | |
| George Lansing Raymond - Elocution - 1879 - 358 pages
...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...sure work ; and he yet plies the dagger, though it is obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm, that... | |
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