 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1859 - 618 pages
...actually broken — actually twisted out of the vertebrae. Had this been done in the dark ? — must it not have been by a hand human as mine ? — must...in a strange erratic way for a few hours, and then comes to a dead stop — it is worthless. Nothing more chanced for the rest of the night. Nor, indeed,... | |
 | 1859 - 620 pages
...actually broken — actually twisted out of the vertebrae. Had this been done in the dark ? — must it not have been by a hand human as mine ? — must...in a strange erratic way for a few hours, and then comes to a dead stop — it is worthless. Nothing more chanced for the rest of the night. Nor, indeed,... | |
 | 1859 - 826 pages
...that room ? Good causo to suspect it. I cannot tell. I cannot do more than state the fact fairly ; tho reader may draw his own inference. Another surprising...will go in a strange erratic way for a few hours, aud then comes to a dead stop — it is worthless. Nothing more chanced for the rest of the night.... | |
 | 1859 - 1036 pages
...heen a human agency all the while in that room ? Good cause to suspect it. I caunot tell. I caunot do more than state the fact fairly ; the reader may...surprising circumstance — my watch was restored to the tahle from which it had heen so mysteriously withdrawn ; hut it had stopped at the very moment it was... | |
 | 1861 - 878 pages
...— must it not have been by a hand human ns mine ? — must there not have been n human agency nil the while in that room ? Good cause to suspect it....so mysteriously withdrawn ; but it had stopped at tbe very moment it was so withdrawn ; nor, despite all the skill of the watchmaker, has it ever gone... | |
 | Rossiter Johnson - 1874 - 216 pages
...been a human agency all the while in that room ? Good cause to suspect it. I cannot tell. I cannot do more than state the fact fairly ; the reader may...nor, despite all the skill of the watchmaker, has it erer gone since : that is, it will go in a strange, erratic way for a few hours, and then comes to... | |
 | Charles Casey - 1876 - 634 pages
...to suspect it. I cannot tell. I cannot do more than atate the fact fairly ; the reader may draw hia own inference. Another surprising circumstance —...mysteriously withdrawn ; but it had stopped at the very motncnt it waa so withdrawn ; nor, despite all the skill of the watchmaker, has it ever gone since... | |
 | Magdalen School (University of Oxford) - 1880 - 540 pages
...been a human agency all the while in that room ? Good cause to suspect it. I cannot tell. I cannot do more than state the fact fairly ; the reader may...in a strange erratic way for a few hours, and then comes to a dead stop — it is worthless. Nothing more chanced for the rest of the night. Nor, indeed,... | |
 | Henry Troth Coates - 1896 - 378 pages
...been a human agency all the while in that room ? Good cause to suspect it. I cannot tell. I cannot do more than state the fact fairly; the reader may draw his own inference. Another surprising circumstance—my watch was restored to the table from which it had been so mysteriously withdrawn;... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1903 - 298 pages
...been a human agency all the while in that room ? Good cause to suspect it. I cannot tell. 1 cannot do more than state the fact fairly ; the reader may...in a strange, erratic way for a few hours, and then conles to a dead stop ; it is worthless. Nothing more chanced for the rest of the night; nor, indeed,... | |
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I can not do more than state the fact fairly ; the reader may draw his own inference. Another surprising circumstance — my watch was restored to the table from which it had been so mysteriously withdrawn ; but it had stopped at the very moment it was... 
