action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits seemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision — that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation... American Short Stories - Page 160edited by - 1904 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1839 - 372 pages
...boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from bis peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...from a tremulous indecision (when the animal spirits teemed utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried,... | |
| Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1840 - 688 pages
...certain boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from culiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, »elf-balanced, and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1845 - 288 pages
...boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1857 - 560 pages
...boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...utterly in abeyance) to that species of energetic concisi' —that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunci tion—that leaden, self-balanced... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1859 - 558 pages
...boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1865 - 578 pages
...boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance, which may be observed... | |
| Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...boyish trait*), and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding inundation—that leaden, self-balanced and perfectly modulated guttural utterance which may be observed... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1875 - 238 pages
...boyish traits, and by conclusions deduced from his peculiar physical conformation and temperament. His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice...guttural utterance, which may be observed in the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opinm, during the periods of his most intense excitement. It... | |
| Edmund John Armstrong - 1877 - 330 pages
...ghastly pallor of his skin, the miraculous lustre of his eye, bespeak a mind diseased. His action is alternately vivacious and sullen. " His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision to that species of energetic concision—that abrupt, weighty, unhurried, and hollow-sounding enunciation... | |
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