 | American periodicals - 1839 - 372 pages
...conjured up as the sound of the dragon's unnatural shriek as described by the romancer. Tousness ef my companion. I was by no means certain that he had...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demean, sr. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit... | |
 | William Evans Burton, Edgar Allan Poe - 1839 - 368 pages
...coinci dence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid exciting, by any observation, the sensitive nerTOueness of my companion. I wae by no means certain that bo bad noticed the sounds in question ;... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Detective and mystery stories, American - 1845 - 288 pages
...in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of rnind to avoid exciting, by any observation, the sensitive...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which 'wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pages
...coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid...by any observation, the sensitive nervousness of my com. panion. I was by no means certain that he had noticed the sounds in question ; although, assuredly,... | |
 | Henry Augustin Beers - American literature - 1878 - 510 pages
...coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - American literature - 1888 - 600 pages
...coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with... | |
 | Stedman, Edmund C. and Hutchinson Ellen M. - 1888 - 600 pages
...coincidence, by a thousand conflicting sensations, in which wonder and extreme terror were predominant, I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid...had, during the last few minutes, taken place in his demeanor. From a position fronting my own, he had gradually brought round his chair, so as to sit with... | |
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I still retained sufficient presence of mind to avoid exciting by any observation the sensitive nervousness of my companion. I was by no means certain that he had noticed the sounds in question, although, assuredly, a strange alteration had during the... 
