Selected Tales — Vocabulary
Edgar Allan Poe
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But of the character of his remarks at the periods in question an example will best convey the idea.†7 more

This hideous murder accomplished, I set myself forthwith, and with entire deliberation, to the task of concealing the body.†11 more

For God is but a great will pervading all things by nature of its intentness.†6 more

And thus how frequently, in my intense scrutiny of Ligeia's eyes, have I felt approaching the full knowledge of their expression—felt it approaching—yet not quite be mine—and so at length entirely depart!†6 more

The police are confounded by the seeming absence of motive—not for the murder itself—but for the atrocity of the murder.†6 more

I therefore struggled alone in my endeavors to call back the spirit ill hovering.†7 more

We give below all the material testimony elicited.†9 more

Through a species of unutterable horror and awe, for which the language of mortality has no sufficiently energetic expression, I felt my heart cease to beat, my limbs grow rigid where I sat.†8 more

Some few inquiries had been made, but these had been readily answered.†5 more

This peculiarity of character grew with my growth, and in my manhood, I derived from it one of my principal sources of pleasure.†5 more

It might have been, too, that in these eyes of my beloved lay the secret to which Lord Verulam alludes.†4 more

Length of years, and subsequent reflection, have enabled me to trace, indeed, some remote connection between this passage in the English moralist and a portion of the character of Ligeia.†4 more

Moreover, in one of the walls was a projection, caused by a false chimney, or fireplace, that had been filled up, and made to resemble the red of the cellar.†4 more

Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves.7 more

Getting upon the sacking of the bedstead, I looked over the head-board minutely at the second casement.7 more

The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis.†4 more

In the classical tongues was she deeply proficient, and as far as my own acquaintance extended in regard to the modern dialects of Europe, I have never known her at fault.†2 more

I learned, moreover, at intervals, and through broken and equivocal hints, another singular feature of his mental condition.†3 more

The wild eyes blazed with a too—too glorious effulgence; the pale fingers became of the transparent waxen hue of the grave, and the blue veins upon the lofty forehead swelled and sank impetuously with the tides of the gentle emotion.†1 more

It was there, however, no longer; and breathing with greater freedom, I turned my glances to the pallid and rigid figure upon the bed.†3 more