 ... mount the stairs, feet fled quietly before him and followed stealthily behind. If he were but deaf, he thought, how tranquilly he would possess his soul ! And then again, and hearkening with ever fresh attention, he blessed himself for that unresting...  The Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-ocean - Page 65edited by - 1885 - 223 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Various Authors - Fiction - 2004 - 164 pages
...fresh attention, he blessed himself for that unresting sense which held the outposts and stood a trusty sentinel upon his life. His head turned continually...with the tail of something nameless vanishing. The four and twenty steps to the first floor were four and twenty agonies. On that first story, the doors... | |
 | Robert Louis Stevenson - Fiction - 2004 - 220 pages
...which held the outposts and stood a trusty sentinel upon his life. His head turned continually on 135 his neck; his eyes, which seemed starting from their...with the tail of something nameless vanishing. The four and twenty steps to the first floor were four and twenty agonies. On that first story, the doors... | |
 | Fiction - 2007 - 185 pages
...fresh attention, he blessed himself for that unresting sense which held the outposts and stood a trusty sentinel upon his life. His head turned continually...with the tail of something nameless vanishing. The four and twenty steps to the first floor were four and twenty agonies. On that first story the doors... | |
 | Rex Collings - Fiction - 2008 - 308 pages
...fresh attention, he blessed himself for that unresting sense which held the outposts and stood a trusty sentinel upon his life. His head turned continually...orbits, scouted on every side and on every side were half-rewarded as with the tail of something nameless vanishing. The four-and-twenty steps to the first... | |
 | Luigi Murolo - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 177 pages
...ricomincia a muoversi nell'angusto spazio della bottega alla ricerca del denaro custodito dal rigattiere: His head turned continually on his neck; his eyes,...orbits, scouted on every side, and on every side were J ~ J half-rewarded as with the tail of something nameless vanishing. The four-and-twenty steps to... | |
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