a small dog.

Poe's source for his detective is the philosophic protagonist of Voltaire's Zadig

I do not mean to say they are not ingenious — but people think they are more ingenious than they are — on account of their method and air of method

It is the ancestor of a vast number of works which have given much harmless pleasure to all sorts and conditions of men

Upon reaching the first landing, heard two voices in loud and angry contention — the one a gruff voice, the other much shriller — a very strange voice. Could distinguish some words of the former, which was that of a Frenchman. Was positive that it was not a woman's voice. Could distinguish the words ‘sacré’{s} and ‘diable.’ The shrill voice was that of a foreigner. Could not be sure whether it was the voice of a man or of a woman. Could not make out what was said, but believed the language to be Spanish.{t}

Did not see any person in the street at the time. It is a bye-street{f} — very lonely.

“Several witnesses, recalled, here testified that the chimneys of all the rooms on the fourth story were too narrow to admit the passage of a human being.

Using ideas from elsewhere requires correct citation, and using ideas from elsewhere without citation is plagiarism.

“The Purloined Letter,”

I do not mean to say they are not ingenious — but people think they are more ingenious than they are — on account of their method and air of method

sensuous lust

a courtesan-girl, a hetaera

gazelles

tyrannical

deities

she-asses

brass

impart

EROD