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    poe


    1. The Marilyn Monroes and the Ladies from the days of Edgar Allen Poe


    2. ” Authors David Horowitz and Richard Poe of the David Horowitz Freedom Center point out that Islamic terror and its mantra “Death to America” predate Mr


    3. Is it any wonder that Poe was a drug


    4. Even that hard-to-top horror that Poe couldn’t have dredged up from his most opium-aided imagination—The Inquisition—won’t come close to beating today’s variety of torture and death-dealing techniques


    5. And because of this failing, all civilized communities become mangy, run-down, dilapidated junk-heaps of secret cliques Much like the books of Edgar Allen Poe: who wrote of secret, unspoken travesties of hidden evils inside ancient buildings


    6. “Let me explain sir,” Smith said, “Edgar Allen Poe wrote a short story


    7. „All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream,' said I, quoting Poe


    8. I felt myself being drawn into that strange domain where the overwrought imagination of Edgar Allan Poe was at home


    9. DAVID ELLIS is a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court and the author of nine novels, including Line of Vision, for which he won the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and The Hidden Man, which earned him a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize nomination


    10. ” Mercer had grabbed a surname from a Poe story; if caught, he could claim he’d been misheard

    11. The Poe eye in the projectionist's window was gone


    12. A Poe here or a Sade there is a spice


    13. " He was more morbid than Marley, paler than Poe


    14. Edgar Allan Poe stood in the tower window, a faint vapor of spirits upon his breath


    15. "Don't worry," said Poe, his brow like a huge white lamp before them, descending, sinking


    16. Poe watched the needles knitting, knitting, knitting, in the firelight; knitting pain and misery, knitting wickedness into wax marionettes, clay puppets


    17. From it, smiling, Poe drew forth a black cat


    18. "Run away?" shouted Poe in the wind


    19. Poe gazed into the old man's face and believed him


    20. "At it!" shrieked Poe

    21. And there was Big Poe! Us kids shouted, applauded!


    22. Big Poe took a double fistful of bats, bundled them on his huge bull shoulder, and strutted along the first-base line, head back, mouth smiling wide open, his tongue moving, singing:


    23. The white section joined politely in the applause as Big Poe finished his cakewalk


    24. Big Poe was first to bat


    25. Big Poe looked in particular at the little, dainty-as-a-chicken-bone shape of his girl friend Katherine


    26. Big Poe shook his head, looking at her, as if he couldn’t believe she was there


    27. Big Poe was suddenly a greased machine pivoting; the dangling hand swept up to the butt end of the bat, the bat swiveled, connected with the ball—Whack! The ball shot up into the sky, away down toward the wavering line of oak trees, down toward the lake, where a white sailboat slid silently by


    28. Big Poe stood for a moment watching the ball go


    29. Ten minutes later, with the bases loaded and run after run being driven in, and Big Poe coming to bat again, my mother turned to me


    30. ‘Ball two!’ said the umpire to Big Poe

    31. ‘You’re out!’ cried the umpire to Big Poe


    32. It was eleven to nothing and Big Poe had struck out three times on purpose, and in the last half of the fifth was when Jimmie Cosner came to bat for our side again


    33. Big Poe was helped up


    34. All the colored men looked at each other, at Big Poe, then at Jimmie Cosner, at the sky, at the lake, the crowd


    35. Big Poe stood with his bad foot hardly touching the ground, balanced


    36. But Big Poe waved him away


    37. A look passed between him and Big Poe, and Jimmie Cosner saw the look and shut up and swallowed, hard


    38. There was the sun in the sky, the lake and the boats on it, the grandstands, the pitcher on his mound standing with his hand out and down after tossing the ball; there was Big Poe with the ball in his mighty black hand; there was the infield staring, crouching in at the scene, and there was Jimmie Cosner running, kicking up dirt, the only moving thing in the entire summer world


    39. “Don’t worry,” said Poe, his brow like a huge white lamp before them, descending, sinking


    40. “Run away?” shouted Poe in the wind

    41. Poe gazed into the old man’s face and believed him


    42. “At it!” shrieked Poe


    43. Poe be delighted?”


    44. Poe? He died a long while ago, before Lincoln


    45. ‘So,’ he said, ‘it was Austen and Wharton and Poe


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    Synonyms for "poe"

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    "poe" definitions

    United States writer and poet (1809-1849)