American poet and short story writer Edgar Allan Poe was born January 19, 1809. Credited as one of the forefathers of science fiction and the detective fiction genre, his words live on in the Unabridged as seen in these examples.
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august adjective
"for in the eternal city . . . a Power august, benignant and supreme shall then absolve thee of all farther duties"
cease verb
"these people suddenly ceased muttering but redoubled their gesticulations"
charnel adjective
"devices to which the charnel superstition of the monks has given rise"
fury noun
"the first fury of the storm had spent itself"
ghoul noun
"they are neither man nor woman, they are neither brute nor human; they are ghouls"
inornate adjective
"the scrupulously inornate clergyman than which nothing could be less liable to suspicion"
jetty adjective
"the sky was of a jetty black, and the stars were brilliantly visible"
loathsome adjective
"upon the bed, before that whole company, there lay a nearly liquid mass of loathsome — of detestable putrescence"
momently adverb
"amid the momently increasing confusion"
nevermore adverb
"Quoth the raven, 'Nevermore'"
pasquinade verb
"been notoriously pasquinaded for his pains"
reek verb
"an atmosphere . . . which reeked up from decayed trees"
seduce verb
"the hideous beast whose craft had seduced me into murder"
stealthy adjective
"a valet, of stealthy step, thence conducted me, in silence, through many dark and intricate passages"
swelter noun
"the immense sweeps and swelters of the whirl"
token noun
"gave token that the host was closing for the night"
turbulency noun (now archaic)
"what a tale of terror . . . its turbulency tells"
wall verb
"had walled the monster up within the tomb"