| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 322 pages
...portion; of unquiet souls Risen from the grave to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life concealed; of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of hell around the murderer's bed At every solemn pause the crowd recoil. Gazing each other speechless, and congealed... | |
| C. E. de Haas - 1928 - 334 pages
...portion; of unquiet souls Risen from the grave to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life concealed; of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of hell around the murderer's bed At every solemn pause the crowd recoil, Gazing each other speechless, and congealed... | |
| Horace Walpole - 2003 - 364 pages
...portion; of unquiet souls Risen from the grave to ease the heavy guilt Of deeds in life concealed; of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains, and wave The torch of hell around the murderer's bed. 265 At every solemn pause the crowd recoil Gazing each other speechless, and congealed... | |
| Francis Lathom - 2006 - 186 pages
...contrary to his welfare so to have done; and that consideration checked her rising curiosity. CHAPTER II Of shapes that walk At dead of night, and clank their chains. AKENSIDE ALTADOR on being left by his uncle, determined not to go immediately to the monastery of Cordova,... | |
| Alexander Hunter - 1905 - 764 pages
...quiver with long, low, creeping shivers, that curdled the blood like a congestive chill. I thought "Of shapes that walk at dead of night, And clank their chains and wave the torch of Hell around the murderer's bed." I clung close to the sergeant, who was under the influence too, and was leaning over... | |
| 1846 - 468 pages
...visions, when Guilt, " with lingers bloody red," doth draw his midnight curtains. Yes, there are " Shapes that walk At dead of night and clank their chains, and wave The torch of Hell around the murderer's bed." But softly : it is not quite so still as I was talking of a short while since. Sounds... | |
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