 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - 1915 - 314 Seiten
...upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust — but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of $he 5 lady Madeline of Usher. There was blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some bitter... | |
 | Robert William Chambers - 1923 - 1250 Seiten
...upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust — but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and...every portion of her emaciated frame. For a moment 5 he remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold — then, with a low, moaning cry,... | |
 | Edwin Almiron Greenlaw, Clarence Stratton - 1922 - 648 Seiten
...upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust — but then without those doors there did stand the lofty and...evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of 90 her emaciated frame. For a moment she remained trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1975 - 1042 Seiten
...upon the instant, their ponderous and ehony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust — but then know, now, this dank tarn of Auher, This ghoul-baunted...THE BELLS HEAR the sledges with the hells — Silv rohes, and the evidence of some hitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. For a moment... | |
 | Kenneth Silverman - 1992 - 596 Seiten
...who has been placed living in her tomb, "the lofty and enshrouded figure of the lady Madeline. . . . blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some...struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame." The figure reels on the threshold, then with a moan falls heavily upon her brother, killing him in... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - 1993 - 308 Seiten
...story is here forced to acknowledge in unambiguous words the irrefutable truth of Roderick's narrative: "without those doors there did stand the lofty and...struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame" (II, 416; Poe's emphasis). The narrator is still not willing to admit his role in her long "struggle"... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1996 - 336 Seiten
...were giving up his soul - "MADMAN! I TELL YOU THAT SHE NOW STANDS WITHOUT THE DOOR! "(143-44) . . . there DID stand the lofty and enshrouded figure of the Lady Madeline of Usher. of the spirit of abstraction . . .": "By the utter simplicity, by the nakedness of his designs, he... | |
 | Rick Wallach - 2000 - 420 Seiten
...(237). At the end of 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' Lady Madeline is 'an enshrouded figure' with 'blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some...struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame . . . trembling and reeling to and fro upon the threshold' (157). Both Rinthy and Madeline represent... | |
 | D. H. Lawrence - 2003 - 724 Seiten
...knew she died at last, like Ligeia, unwilling and unappeased. So, she rose again upon him. "But then without those doors there did stand the lofty and...Madeline of Usher. There was blood upon her white robes, 30 and the evidence of some bitter struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame. For a moment... | |
 | Michael O'Brien - 2004 - 800 Seiten
...them. "Madman! I tell you that she now stands without the door!" The door opens and there she stands, "blood upon her white robes, and the evidence of some...struggle upon every portion of her emaciated frame." She trembles, falls forward into the arms of her dying brother, "a victim to the terrors he had anticipated."... | |
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As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell, the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. It was the work of the rushing gust—... 
