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Tales of Mystery and Imagination
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4. In their sad and solemn slumbers with the worm 40
5. In less than half a minute the whole eight were blazing fiercely 56
6. The eight corpses swung in their chains, a fetid, blackened, hideous, and indistinguishable mass 60
7. A thousand flambeaux flashing from the Ducal Palace turned all at once that deep gloom into a livid and preternatural day 64
8. The sentence—the dread sentence of death—was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears 84
9. Down—still unceasingly—still inevitably down! I gasped and struggled at each vibration. I shrunk convulsively at its every sweep 92
10. There was a sharp cry—and the dagger dropped gleaming upon the sable carpet, upon which, instantly afterward, fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero 100
11. He may have thought it expedient to remove all participants in his secret 158
12. “These are the full, and the black, and the wild eyes—of my lost love—of the lady—of the Lady Ligeia 170
13. With a velocity like the headlong dashing of a cataract 196
14. You have conquered, and I yield. Yet henceforward art thou also dead—dead to the World, to Heaven, and to hope! 214
15. The distinct colossal figure of—a horse 230
16. Eight or ten of the neighbours entered, accompanied by two gendarmes 238
17. The sight of blood inflamed its anger into frenzy 258

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