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Edgar Allan Poe

The Masque of the Red Death

  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    whose tall figure stood erect and motionless within the shadow of the ebony clock, gasped in unutterable horror at finding the grave cerements and corpse-like mask, which they handled with so violent a rudeness, untenanted by any tangible form.
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    fell prostrate in death the Prince Prospero
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    He bore aloft a drawn dagger, and had approached, in rapid impetuosity, to within three or four feet of the retreating figure, when the latter, having attained the extremity of the velvet apartment, turned suddenly and confronted his pursuer.
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    They rang throughout the seven rooms loudly and clearly, for the prince was a bold and robust man
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    who dares insult us with this blasphemous mockery? Seize him and unmask him—that we may know whom we have to hang, at sunrise, from the battlements!
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    he was seen to be convulsed, in the first moment with a strong shudder either of terror or distaste; but, in the next, his brow reddened with rage.
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.
  • Yousef Mohamedfez uma citaçãohá 3 dias
    The figure was tall and gaunt, and shrouded from head to foot in the habiliments of the grave. The mask which concealed the visage was made so nearly to resemble the countenance of a stiffened corpse that the closest scrutiny must have had difficulty in detecting the cheat.
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