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As for the pictures, they’re shrouded in ominous shadows, but although the raven’s eyes burn like embers, the bird does nothing worse than cry “nevermore,” and Lenore, when she appears, looks downright comely.

Edgar Allan Poe writes children's books: "Still that hatted cat comes calling, Nameless Things with him enthralling Children who, their caution falling, Heed their parents nevermore."

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The virus has canceled the rites that human beings have created to usher the people they love into the nevermore.

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Apples painted with nevermore are piled on the banquet tables in such quantity as to send half the Court dreaming.

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This creature inevitably brings to mind Edgar Allan Poe’s Raven, who arrived upon a midnight dreary to intone the single word “nevermore.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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