How To Use Nevermore In A Sentence
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Composition_ he described how his best-known poem, the _Raven_, was systematically built up on a preconceived plan in which the number of lines was first determined and the word "nevermore" selected as a starting-point.
Initial Studies in American Letters
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Quoth the raven, nevermore!
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He added that former presidents are ‘like discontented ghosts, sighing for a place which they were destined nevermore to possess.’
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In the poem The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, for example, the word nevermore is a motif appearing at the end of each stanza.
Motif
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Their steeds were coated in lather, after their wild run weaving between the tall ancient trees of Nevermore's forest.
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Playing on the Ravons, I called the new management company Nevermore Ltd. When I asked Tug what he thought of the name he grunted and asked if it was for the home of Peter Pan, “Where the Lost Boys never grow up.”
EVENING’S EMPIRE
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In 2000, he used the same technique on the Ravens defense, which said nevermore, holding opponents to a league-record 165 points.
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In his _Philosophy of Composition_ he described how his best known poem, the _Raven_, was systematically built up on a preconceived plan in which the number of lines was first determined and the word "nevermore" selected as a starting point.
Brief History of English and American Literature
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First swore Arthur, noblest of kings; then swore earls, then swore barons; then swore thanes, then swore swains, that they nevermore the strife would arear.
Roman de Brut. English
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I could say that he is stuck in Mattoon, in the past, and this quiet obsession with what is gone and can be nevermore is sad, almost tragic.
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The end; that last dreadful piece of news which would write "nevermore" across his life and hers.
The Unbearable Bassington
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Thus the word "nevermore," a gloomy, terrible word, comes into his mind, and he proceeds to brood over it.
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived
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In "The Raven" the raven tells the man he will see Lenore "nevermore".
The Annotated "Uncle John's Band"
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It goes without saying that South Park is a phenomenon fueled almost entirely by a coy balance of subversion and candor, and nevermore has that meld been on more beautiful display than when its crude primary color cut-outs are set to music.
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As far as I can tell, the two slates used to be effectively one, but nevermore.
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“No, but I am profoundly moved by the sad beauty of it; and by the fact that perhaps Poe got his refrain of 'nevermore' for his Raven as a reminiscence from it.”
Tramping on Life
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The dread "nevermore," that Edgar Poe could not drive from his heart and sight, was oppressing her.
Aunt Phillis's Cabin Or, Southern Life As It Is
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The effect was irresistible; and as the final "nevermore" was solemnly uttered the half-suppressed titter of two very young persons in a corner was responded to by a general laugh.
Stories of Authors, British and American
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No, but I am profoundly moved by the sad beauty of it; and by the fact that perhaps Poe got his refrain of 'nevermore' for his _Raven_ as a reminiscence from it.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative
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Shaykh said to him, ‘O Janshah, take the keys of the castle and solace thyself with exploring all its apartments and viewing whatever be therein, but as regards such a room, beware and again beware of opening its door; and if thou gainsay me and open it and enter there, through nevermore shalt thou know fair fortune.’
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Poe had been a musty relic, someone she was forced to read in high school, nothing more than " nevermore.
IN A STRANGE CITY
