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Tales - Page 176
by Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 228 pages
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Tales of Mystery, Imagination and Humour ...

Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 298 pages
...to the fashion of some of our police officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cofer, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." " You explored the floors beneath the carpets ?" " Beyond, doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope." " And the...
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Tales of Mystery, Imagination, & Humour: And Poems

Edgar Allan Poe - 1852 - 308 pages
...to the fashion of some of our police officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cower, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...carefully probed, longitudinally, with the needles." " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope." " You explored...
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The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Parker Willis - 1853 - 556 pages
...to the fashion of some of our police officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-coper, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." * " You explored the floors beneath the carpets ?" " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope." " And the...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe - 1871 - 556 pages
...to the fashion of some of our police officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-coper, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." " You explored the floors beneath the carpets *" " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with tne microscope." " And the...
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The works of Edgar Allan Poe, ed. by J.H. Ingram. Complete ed, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...according to the fashion of some of our police-officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cowr, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." " You explored the floors beneath the carpets ?" " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope." " And the...
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Cassell's illustrated readings, Volume 1; Volume 66

Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 pages
...according to the fashion of some of our police-officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...or six volumes, just from the hands of the binder, wo carefully probed longitudinally with the needles." . " You explored the floors beneath the carpets...
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Works, Volume 1

Edgar Allan Poe - 1876 - 618 pages
...to the fashion of some of our police officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." " You explored the floors beneath the carpets ?" " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and exammed the boards with the nncroscope." " And the...
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The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 5

Literature - 1886 - 548 pages
...according to the fashion of some of our police-officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." " You explored the floors beneath the carpets?" " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope." "And the paper...
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The Fall of the House of Usher: And Other Tales and Prose Writings of Edgar Poe

Edgar Allan Poe - Fantasy literature, American - 1889 - 360 pages
...to the fashion of some of our police-officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover, with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." " You explored the floors beneath the carpets ? " " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope." "And the...
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The Classic and the Beautiful from the Literature of Three ..., Volume 1

Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...according to the fashion of some of our police-officers. We also measured the thickness of every book-cover with the most accurate admeasurement, and applied...needles." " You explored the floors beneath the carpets?" " Beyond doubt. We removed every carpet, and examined the boards with the microscope." "And the paper...
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