 | Ann Radcliffe - 1820 - 238 pages
...eyes fixed on the opposite wall, she perceived the arras, with which the room was hung, wave backwards and forwards ; she continued to observe it for some minutes, and then rose to examine it further. It was moved by the wind ; and she blushed at the momentary fear it had excited : but she... | |
 | English literature - 1820 - 240 pages
...eyes fixed on the opposite wall, she perceived the arras, with which the room was hung, wave backwards and forwards; she continued to observe it for some minutes, and then rose to examine it further. It was moved by the wind ; and she blushed at the momentary fear it had excited: but she observed... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1824 - 820 pages
...eyes fixed on the opposite wall, she perceived the arras, with which the room was hung, wave backwards and forwards ; she continued to observe it for some...observed that the tapestry was more strongly agitated in oneparticular place than elsewhere, and a noise that seemed something more than that of the wind, issued... | |
 | Ann Ward Radcliffe - 1826 - 836 pages
...for some minutes, and then rose to examine it further. It was moved by the wind ; and she bluiihed , 3& bH Sq X Vr ? * q h B 6 *+ } k... ? 8ٷi T Z9 pE D Sr MrO [7W = 8T$?h C S, 3"W E D^Z scorned something more than that of the wind issued thence. The old bedstead, which La Motte had found... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe - 1877 - 696 pages
...eyes fixed on the opposite wall, she perceived the arras with which the room was hung wave backwards and forwards ; she continued to observe it for some minutes, and then rose to examine it further. It was moved by the wind, and she blushed at the momentary fear it had excited ; but she observed... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2002 - 284 pages
...eyes fixed on the opposite wall, she perceived the arras, with which the room was hung, wave backwards and forwards; she continued to observe it for some...something more than that of the wind, issued thence. ... She felt about the tapestry, and perceiving the wall behind shake under her hand, she lifted the... | |
 | Jane Austen - Fiction - 2003 - 324 pages
...gusts ... As she sat musing, . . . she perceived the arras . . . wave backwards and forwards; . . . she observed that the tapestry was more strongly agitated in one particular place than elsewhere.' 12. secret subterraneous communication . . . two miles off: A significant part in the plot of Romance... | |
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... the pauses of the gust ; but she checked these illusions, which the hour of the night and her own melancholy imagination conspired to raise. As she sat musing, her eyes fixed on the opposite wall, she perceived the arras with which the room was hung... 