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Topic: Upon my entrance |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:42 am Subject: Upon my entrance |
Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality--of the ... |
Topic: Dark draperies hung upon the walls |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:42 am Subject: Dark draperies hung upon the walls |
Dark draperies hung upon the walls. The general furniture was profuse, comfortless, antique, and tattered. Many books and musical instruments lay scattered about, but failed to give any vitality to th ... |
Topic: The room in which I found myself |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Sat Dec 31, 2011 2:42 am Subject: The room in which I found myself |
The room in which I found myself was very large and lofty. The windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from the black oaken floor as to be altogether inaccessible from within ... |
Topic: I have said that the sole effect |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:09 pm Subject: I have said that the sole effect |
I have said that the sole effect of my somewhat childish experiment --that of looking down within the tarn--had been to deepen the first singular impression. There can be no doubt that the consciousne ... |
Topic: Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:08 pm Subject: Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates |
Although, as boys, we had been even intimate associates, yet really knew little of my friend. His reserve had been always excessive and habitual. I was aware, however, that his very ancient family had ... |
Topic: Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 1:08 pm Subject: Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom |
Nevertheless, in this mansion of gloom I now proposed to myself a sojourn of some weeks. Its proprietor, Roderick Usher, had been one of my boon companions in boyhood; but many years had elapsed since ... |
Topic: Once we had a kind of a fair here |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:32 pm Subject: Once we had a kind of a fair here |
Once we had a kind of a fair here and they was a baseball game between the fats and the leans and before the game started Jim called Paul over and sent him way down to Schrader's hardware store to get ... |
Topic: I was goin' to tell you about a poor |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:32 pm Subject: I was goin' to tell you about a poor |
I was goin' to tell you about a poor boy we got here in town-Paul Dickson. He fell out of a tree when he was about ten years old. Lit on his head and it done somethin' to him and he ain't never been r ... |
Topic: Anyways, it wasn't long before |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 5:32 pm Subject: Anyways, it wasn't long before |
Anyways, it wasn't long before he was makin' enough to live on, though they tell me that he never dunned nobody for what they owed him, and the folks here certainly has got the owin' habit, even in my ... |
Topic: Jim didn't work very steady after |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:59 pm Subject: Jim didn't work very steady after |
Jim didn't work very steady after he lost his position with the Carterville people. What he did earn, coin' odd jobs round town why he spent pretty near all of it on gin, and his family might of starv ... |
Topic: For instance, they'd be a sign |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:59 pm Subject: For instance, they'd be a sign |
For instance, they'd be a sign. "Henry Smith, Dry Goods". Well, Jim would write down the name and the name of the town and when he got to wherever he was goin' he'd mail back a postal card t ... |
Topic: They asked him if he was in earnest |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:58 pm Subject: They asked him if he was in earnest |
They asked him if he was in earnest and he said he was and nobody could think of nothin' to say till Jim finally broke the ice himself. He says, "I been sellin' canned goods and now I'm canned go ... |
Topic: His maid, when he appeared |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:26 pm Subject: His maid, when he appeared |
His maid, when he appeared, told him that some patients had been waiting in his office for three hours. He hastened in. There were the two varicose-vein patients, who had returned at daybreak, obstina ... |
Topic: The brow of Napoleon disappeare |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:25 pm Subject: The brow of Napoleon disappeare |
The brow of Napoleon disappeared in white powder, but the eyes, the nose and the fine points of the mustaches remained intact. Then, exasperated, the doctor overturned the chair with a blow of his fis ... |
Topic: What was to be done? |
kratos
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Forum: General Posted: Fri Oct 14, 2011 3:25 pm Subject: What was to be done? |
What was to be done? What was there that would move this people and bring about a definite victory in opinion? His hand happened to rest on his hip and to come in contact there with the butt end of hi ... |
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