 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 874
...again, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil ; but ipstantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could...on the floor. When she recovered her recollection, . . . horror occupied her mind.' Countless mysteries coagulate around this veil, and the reader is... | |
 | Julia Kavanagh - 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 352
...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before she could...the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor." She nearly faints a second time on recovering consciousness, then she flies to her own room filled... | |
 | Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Charles Robert Maturin - 1891 - عدد الصفحات: 360
...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall, perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture ; and before she could...leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor.' Long afterwards the object is described and explained as having been a wax figure imitating (and taken... | |
 | Walter Raleigh - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and, before she could...the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor." "// was no picture" and the reader exhausts his imagination on terrors before he learns, at the close... | |
 | 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 752
...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall, perceiving that what it concealed was no picture, and before she could leave...the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor.' There is consummate skill in these simple lines, and the horror suggested by the touch, it was no picture,... | |
 | Susan Hale - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 334
...with a timid hand lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it contained was no picture, and before she could leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor. Here we must leave the poor Emily ; and if it seems cruel to furnish no explanation of what she saw,... | |
 | William Dean Howells - 1901 - عدد الصفحات: 344
...again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture; and before she could leave the chamber dropped senseless upon the floor." What was behind the veil? In a famous conversation between Catharine... | |
 | Andrew Lang - 1905 - عدد الصفحات: 384
...again, and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could...on the floor. When she recovered her recollection, . . . horror occupied her mind." Countless mysteries coagulate around this veil, and the reader is... | |
 | Edith Birkhead - 1921 - عدد الصفحات: 262
...again and then, with a timid hand, lifted the veil, but instantly let it fall — perceiving that, what it had concealed was no picture and, before she could...the chamber, she dropped senseless on the floor." • In time Emily recovers, but the horror of the Black Veil preys on her mind until, near the close... | |
 | Charles Brockden Brown - 1926 - عدد الصفحات: 412
...The Mysteries of Udolpho lifts the curtain from what she believes to be a picture — but "What it concealed was no picture, and, before she could leave the chamber, she dropped senseless to the floor." Not until near the end of the book is the reader enlightened as to what she saw. This... | |
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She paused again, and then with a timid hand lifted the veil ; but instantly let it fall — perceiving that what it had concealed was no picture, and before she could leave the chamber she dropped senseless on the floor. 
