 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor no sign of...he concentred all my attention on himself. Slowly he rose up, all his hair bristling, and stood perfectly rigid, :mJ with the same wild stare. I had... | |
 | 1859 - 826 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing that my weapons should share the fute of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor no sign of..."No; be on your guard." The dog now roused himself end sat on his haunches, his ears moving quickly backwards and forwards. He kept his eyes fixed on... | |
 | 1859 - 1036 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing that my weapons should share tho fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor no sign of...slow, loud, distinct knocks were now heard at the hed-head ; my servant called out, " Is that you, sir ?" "No; he on your guard." The dog now roused... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Thomas Bucklin Wells, Lee Foster Hartman, Frederick Lewis Allen - 1861 - 878 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor no sign of...himself and sat on his haunches, his ears moving quickly backward and forward. He kept his eyes fixed on me with a look so strange that he concentred all my... | |
 | Edward George E.L. Bulwer- Lytton (1st baron.) - 1864 - 378 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other: I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor no sign of...he concentred all my attention on himself. Slowly he rose up, all his hair bristling, and stood perfectly rigid, and with the same wild stare. I had... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1865 - 396 pages
...willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floorno sign of the watch. Three slow, loud, distinct knocks...bed-head ; my servant called out, " Is that you, sir?" " ISTo ; be on your guard." The dog now roused himself and sat on his haunches, his ears moving quickly... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 216 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other: I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor: no sign of the...and sat on his haunches, his ears moving quickly backward and forward. He kept his eye fixed on me with a look so strange that he concentred all my... | |
 | Charles Casey - 1876 - 634 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor no sign of...his eyes fixed on me with a look so strange that he concentrated all my attention on himself. Slowly he rose up, all his hair bristling, and stood perfectly... | |
 | Magdalen School (University of Oxford) - 1880 - 540 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other ! I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed, I looked round the floor, no sign...his eyes fixed on me with a look so strange that he concentrated all my attention on himself. Slowly he rose up, all his hair bristling, and stood perfectly... | |
 | 1892 - 396 pages
...hand, the dagger with the other. I was not willing that my weapons should share the fate of the watch. Thus armed I looked round the floor no sign of...out, " Is that you, sir? " " No; be on your guard." I SPRANG UP, SEIZING THE REVOLVER." JL The dog now roused himself and sat on his haunches, his... | |
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... swayed as by a wind. At the same moment the watch beside the revolver softly slid from the table, softly, softly, no visible hand ; it was gone. I sprang up, seizing the revolver with the one hand, the dagger with the other : I was not willing... 
