| Daniel Webster - United States - 1830 - 518 pages
...the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. — He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in...heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse! he feels it, and ascertains that... | |
| John Francis Knapp - Trials (Murder) - 1830 - 258 pages
...the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. — He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in...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
...plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in...heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains... | |
| Law - 1834 - 614 pages
...been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He 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 explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that... | |
| 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
...plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon.—He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in...heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains... | |
| Harriet Martineau - Cincinnati (Ohio) - 1838 - 284 pages
...plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in...heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard. To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! he feels it, and ascertains that... | |
| John Todd - Christian education of children - 1839 - 444 pages
...was obvious that life had been destroyed by the The deed done.... The secret blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in....heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard. To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse. He feels it, and ascertains that... | |
| Daniel Webster, James Rees - Orators - 1839 - 108 pages
...plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in...heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poinard ! To finish the picture, he explores the wrist for the pulse ! He feels for it, and ascertains... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Readers - 1839 - 322 pages
...that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it again over the wounds of the poniard ! To 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 retreats,... | |
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