 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 600 pages
...table, and leaning on his left arm. He held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The man had no sooner set one foot within the vault, than the statue erected itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt up-right, and, upon the fellow's advancing another... | |
 | 1804 - 412 pages
...table, and leaning on his left arm. He held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The man had no sooner set one foot Within the...statue erecting itself from its leaning posture stood bolt-upright ; and, upon the fellow's advancing another step, lifted up the truncheon hi his right... | |
 | English literature - 1812 - 708 pages
...his left arm. He had a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The stranger had no sooner set one foot within the vault, than...statue, erecting itself from its leaning posture, sluod bold upright ; and upon the fellow's advancing another step, lifted up the truncheon in its right... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...table, and leaning on his left arm. He held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The man had no sooner set one foot within the vault, than the statue erected itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt upright, and, upon the fellow,s advancing another... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 pages
...table, and leaning on his left arm; He held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The man had no sooner set one foot within the vault, than the statue erected itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt upright, and, upon the fellow's advancing another... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...table, and leaning on his left arm. He held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The man had no sooner set one foot within the...statue erecting itself from its leaning posture, stood bold upright ; and, upon the fellow's advancing another step, lifted up the truncheon in its * See... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...lamp burning before him. The man had no sooner set one foot within the vault, than the statue erected itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt upright,...and, upon the fellow's advancing another step, lifted up the truncheon in his right hand. The man still ventured a third step, when the statue, with a furious... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 268 pages
...table, and leaning on his left arm: he held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The man had no sooner set one foot within the vault, than the statue erected itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt uprigh't, and upon the fellow's advancing another... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...lamp burning before him. The Man had no tooner set one foot within the vault, than the statue erected itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt upright,...and upon the fellow's advancing another step, lifted up the truncheon in his right hand. The Man still ventured a third step, when the statue, with a furious... | |
 | Edward Duke - Architecture, Domestic - 1837 - 686 pages
...table, and leaning on his left arm. He held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning before him. The Man had no sooner set one foot within the vault, than the statue erected itself from its leaning posture, stood bolt upright, and upon the fellow's advancing another... | |
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He was immediately surprised by a sudden blaze of light, and discovered a very fair vault : at the upper end of it was a statue of a man in armour sitting by a table, and leaning on his left arm. He held a truncheon in his right hand, and had a lamp burning... 
