10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SCORIAC»
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Jaunting on the
Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on ...
In this new collection of essays, well-known critic Brian Stableford presents twelve pieces on science-fiction and fantasy writers M. P. Shiel, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Humphry Davy, Robert Hunt, Vernon Lee, J. G. Ballard, James Morrow, Dean ...
On the Scoriac Harold An Wolf, now John Robinson, kept aloof from every one.
He did not make any acquaintances, did not try to. Some of those at table with
him, being ladies and gentlemen, now and again made a polite remark; to which
he ...
3
A handbook for travellers on the Rhine, from Switzerland to ...
The banks consist of volcanic sand, tufa and scoriac. On the s. side of the lake
rises the Rdmersberg , a stately volcanic mountain (1468 ft.). [Manderscheid (p.
125) lies 7'/2 M. s.w. from Gillenfeld: the road leads by Eckfeld and Buchholz (p.
4
Wanderer of the Wasteland
It was a valley where nature had been prodigal of her treasures and terrible in
her hold upon them. But few springs and streams flowed down into this scoriac
sink, and of these all were heavily impregnated with minerals, all unpalatable,
many ...
5
The Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
These were days when my heart was volcanic As the scoriac rivers that roll - As
the lavas that restlessly roll Their sulphurous currents down Yaanek In the
ultimate climes of the pole - That groan as they roll down Mount Yaanek In the
realms of ...
6
American Poetry: The Puritans Through Walt Whitman
Poe hankered for a supernal beauty to be attained by escape from earthly pain to
a kind of phantom necropolis or fairy wasteland resort where one can bask by
scoriac rivers or fetid, vaporous lakes. To Poe, escaping into the shadows of ...
7
The Tsathoggua Cycle: Terror Tales of the Toad God
The glassy scaurs and grim ramparts of Mt. Voormithadreth, highest and most
formidable of the Eiglophians, had beetled above them, wedging the sun with
dark scoriac peaks at mid-afternoon, and walling the blazonries of sunset wholly
from ...
8
Late Victorian Gothic Tales
This is jaunting on the scoriac tempests and reeling bullions of hell! It is baptism
in a sun!' Recollection gropes in a dimmer gloaming as to all that followed. I
struggled up the stairway now flowing a steep river, and for a long time ran
staggering ...
9
Caruso's Mustache Off: And Other Writings about Music and ...
On the word “toddy” the orchestra imitates a bagpipe; on the word “admiral” we
hear a reminiscence of the hornpipe; while a scoriac scale illustrates the word “
shoddy.” This sort of thing has been done by every composer from Haydn, who ...
Carl Van Vechten, Bruce Kellner, 2010
The glassy scaurs and grim ramparts of Mount Voormithadreth, highest and most
formidable of the Eiglophians, had beetled above them, wedging the sun with
dark scoriac peaks at mid-afternoon, and walling the blazonries of sunset wholly
...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SCORIAC»
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HP Lovecraft: an appreciation
He favoured words such as cyclopean, gibbous and scoriac, words that left young lads like me reaching anxiously for a dictionary. Still, reading Lovecraft was ... «Den Of Geek, Feb 11»
