 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1874 - 644 pages
...which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting...sight of so dangerous a weapon in the possession of ail animal so ferocious and so well able to use it, the man, for some moments, was at a loss what to... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - American prose literature - 1904 - 206 pages
...which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting...previously watched its master through the key-hole ef the closet. Terrified at the sight of so dangerous a weapon in the possession of am animal so ferocious,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.), Fredrick Thomas Dawson - Novelle - 1915 - 314 pages
...which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting before a looking-glass, attempting the operation 15 of shaving, in which it had no doubt previously watched its master through the key-hole of the closet.... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - 1927 - 570 pages
...which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting...attempting the operation of shaving, in which it had n» doubt previously watched its master through the keyhole of the closet. Terrified at the sight of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Criticism - 1927 - 956 pages
...broken from a closet Jdjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in land, and fully lathered, it was sitting before a looking-glass,...attempting the operation of shaving, in which it had EO doubt previously watched its master through the key-hole of the closet. Terrified at the sight of... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe - Literary Collections - 1975 - 1042 pages
...had heen, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting hefore a looking-glass, attempting the operation of shaving, in which it had no douht previously watched its master through the keyhole of the closet. Terrified at the sight of so... | |
 | Louis J. Budd, Edwin Harrison Cady - Literary Collections - 1993 - 308 pages
...559). Poe also stresses that the orangutan, after escaping from the closet, was imitating the sailor: "Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting...watched its master through the key-hole of the closet" (p. 565). Those very details which Dupin singled out as proving the mutilations to be "altogether irreconcilable... | |
 | Peter Thoms - Detective and mystery stories, English - 1998 - 191 pages
...which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting...watched its master through the key-hole of the closet. (133) The 'imitative"( 1 29) animal rebels against its subservient position by breaking out of its... | |
 | Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, Eleanor D. Kewer - Fiction - 2000 - 756 pages
...adjoining, where it" had been, as" was thought, securely confined. Razorr in hand, and fully lathered, its was sitting before a lookingglass, attempting the operation of shaving, in which it1 had no doubt previously watched its" master through the key-holev of the closet. Terrified at the... | |
 | J. Gerald Kennedy, Liliane Weissberg - African Americans in literature - 2001 - 314 pages
...which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor in hand, and fully lathered, it was sitting...watched its master through the key-hole of the closet. (Mabbott, 2:564-65) Poe's orangutan here goes one step further than Buffon's, trying to look like its... | |
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Returning home from some sailor's frolic on the night, or rather in the morning of the murder, he found the beast occupying his own bed-room, into which it had broken from a closet adjoining, where it had been, as was thought, securely confined. Razor... 
