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By Edgar Allan Poe
During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country;
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- Tales by Edgar A. Poe, 1845 · "The Fall of the House of Usher", p. 64
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- Internet Archive (University of North Carolina scan of the Wiley and Putnam edition, New York, 1845)
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The opening of Poe's story "The Fall of the House of Usher", as printed in Tales by Edgar A. Poe (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1845). The narrator speaks. The sentence continues past the semicolon to the first sight of the House of Usher.