 ... are language — language clear and expressive in the highest degree. But the close pressure of the dog's breast against the wood, the convulsive clinging of the paws, which has dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head...  The Illustrated photographer - Page 2411870Full view - About this book
 | Andrea Broomfield, Sally Mitchell - 1996 - 750 pages
...dragged the blanket off the tressel, the total powerlessness of the head laid close and motionless upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose that marks that there has been no motion or change in the trance of agony since the last blow was struck... | |
 | Jessica R. Feldman - 2002 - 292 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in its utter hopelessness . . . these are all thoughts ... by which the picture is separated at once from hundreds of equal merit... | |
 | Louis Le Baut - 1959 - 358 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid, close and motionless, upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the...the trance of agony since the last blow was struck 15 on the coffin-lid, the quietness and gloom of the chamber, the spectacles marking the place where... | |
 | Fireside pictorial annual - 1879 - 822 pages
...the total powerlessness of the head laid close and motionless upon its folds, the fixed and tearful eye in its utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose which marks that there has been no motion or change in the trance of agony since the last blow was struck on the coffin lid, the quietness and... | |
 | 1898 - 150 pages
...dragged the blanket off the trestle, the total powerlessness of the head laid close and motionless upon its folds, the fixed and tearful fall of the eye in utter hopelessness, the rigidity of repose which marks that there has been no motion nor change in... | |
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