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Intimacy In America: Dreams Of Affiliation In Antebellum Literature - Page 73
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Burtons' Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, Volume 5

American periodicals - 1839 - 372 pages
...expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spuke. The HOW ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...The silken hair, too, had been suffered to grow all onheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than lull ubout the face, I could...
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Gentleman's Magazine, Volume 5

William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom 1 spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, had been sutTered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell alunit...
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Bentley's Miscellany, Volume 8

Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1840 - 686 pages
...and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...connect its arabesque expression with any idea of simply humanity. In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence — an inconsistency;...
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Tales

Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence — an inconsistency ; and I soon...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity/ In the manner of my friend I was at once struck with an incoherence — an inconsistency ; and I soon...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe: With a Memoir

Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild j^ssamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the face, I could not, even with effort, connect...
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The works of Edgar Allan Poe [with a mem. by R.W. Griswold].

Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...and of the expression they were wont to convey, lay so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the VOL. I.— 23 face, I could not, even with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...that I doubted t.> whom I spoke. Tho now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous lus. tre of the eye, above all things startled and even awed...gossamer texture, it floated rather than fell about the VOL. L— 23 face, I could not, even with effort, connect its Arabesque expression with any idea of...
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Little Classics, Volume 2

Rossiter Johnson - Literature - 1874 - 216 pages
...and of the expression they were wont to convey, ky so much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the skin, and the now miraculous...Arabesque expression with any idea of simple humanity. In the manner of my friend 1 was at once struck with an incoherence, — an inconsistency; and I soon...
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The works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by J.H. Ingram. Complete ed, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...to convey, lay eo much of change that I doubted to whom I spoke. The now ghastly pallor of the akin, and the now miraculous lustre of the eye, above all...(startled and even awed me. The silken hair, too, ha/1 been suffered to grow all unheeded, and as, in its wild goiwamer texture, it floated rather than...
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