nevermore

IPA: nˈɛvɝmɔr

Examples of "nevermore" in Sentences

In "The Raven" the raven tells the man he will see Lenore "nevermore".
The end; that last dreadful piece of news which would write "nevermore" across his life and hers.
The dread "nevermore," that Edgar Poe could not drive from his heart and sight, was oppressing her.
Thus the word "nevermore," a gloomy, terrible word, comes into his mind, and he proceeds to brood over it.
In the poem The Raven, by Edgar Allan Poe, for example, the word nevermore is a motif appearing at the end of each stanza.
“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.”
"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."
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.
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.
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.