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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 to the repose of death... "
The Quarterly review - Page 42
1841
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A Report of the Evidence and Points of Law, Arising in the Trial of John ...

John Francis Knapp - 1830 - 258 pages
...aged temple, shewed 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...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...
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The American Jurist and Law Magazine, Volume 7

1832 - 504 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, lie even raises the aged arm, that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it again over...
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The Law Magazine: Or, Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 12

1834 - 614 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...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...
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Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 1

Daniel Webster - 1835 - 1166 pages
...locks of his aged temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow is given! and the victim without a struggle or a motion, from the repose of sleep to...death! It is the assassin's purpose to make sure work; aid he yet plies the dagger, though, it was obvious that lift; liad been '!•stroyed by the blow of...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 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...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...
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Retrospect of Western Travel, Volume 1

Harriet Martineau - 1838 - 354 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...is the assassin's purpose to make sure work; and he jet plies the dagger, though it was obvious that life had been destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon....
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The Beauties of the Hon. Daniel Webster: Selected and Arranged, with a ...

Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 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...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...
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Truth Made Simple: Being the First Volume of a System of Theology for ...

John Todd - 1839 - 444 pages
...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...it 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...
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The Fourth Reader for the Use of Schools

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1839 - 322 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 the 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,...
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The American Class-reader: Containing a Series of Lessons in Reading; with ...

George Willson - 1840 - 298 pages
...temple, showed him where to strike. The fatal blow ,Jis given! and the victim passes, without a straggle or a -^motion, from the repose of sleep to the repose...destroyed by the blow of the bludgeon. He even raises 7 the aged arm, that he may not fail in his aim at the heart, and replaces it again over the wounds...
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