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The eyeless sockets of the pack animals everywhere account for the myriads of ravens along the road.
And crows and other corvidae, ravens, rooks and so forth, are incredibly smart birds.
Ravens and bald eagles came down to feed on the carrion that the wolves had left.
Now, today we think of Poe in terms of gothic poems and telltale hearts and ravens.
Unfortunately, it turned out it was something QUITE different: a good start with a girl that meets a guy and all that whatnot, then the girl gets threatening messages in the form of ravens shut up in her bathroom closet(ludicrous), from that bit and on, the movie starts to slide downhill very quickly with a lot of desperate thrashing in the process.
But too much time was focused on Gina Phillips and her ridiculous encounters with ravens and Duilio Marzio.
Ravens have a weird part in it.
When the relations go to sleep, the Ravens eat there organs, so they can't go to sleep.
I really can't recommend this movie at all even though as a fan of Edgar Allen Poe, I was intrigued a bit by the references to his work(Ravens, House of Usher-like family curse,and being buried alive)-still he would probably turn over in his grave if he knew about this film.
However strange things begin to happen, Jennifer starts having nightmares about Ravens pecking at her & she starts to feel very ill.
Soon other bodies were exhumed in various places in Europe and found to be in a similar preserved condition, giving rise to a literature that rigorously examined, among other questions, the connection between vampires and bats, butterflies, and ravens.
He went after the labourers, drove away with clods of earth the ravens that were flying about.
Often in the thicket was heard the fluttering of wings, or else the hoarse, soft cry of the ravens flying off amidst the oaks.
Take madame to the theatre, if it were only for once in your life, to enrage one of these ravens, hang it!
Homais, as was due to his principles, compared priests to ravens attracted by the odour of death.
Beauty by itself attracts the desires of all who behold it, and the royal eagles and birds of towering flight stoop on it as on a dainty lure; but if beauty be accompanied by want and penury, then the ravens and the kites and other birds of prey assail it, and she who stands firm against such attacks well deserves to be called the crown of her husband.
Nothing stirred over the vast expanse save a pair of ravens, which croaked loudly from a tor behind us.
We cannot leave it here to the foxes and the ravens."
I will hang thee out to feed the ravens, from the very pinnacle of thine own castle.--Let
There he saw dazzling camellias expanding themselves, with flowers which were giving forth their last colours and perfumes, not on bushes, but on trees, and within bamboo enclosures, cherry, plum, and apple trees, which the Japanese cultivate rather for their blossoms than their fruit, and which queerly-fashioned, grinning scarecrows protected from the sparrows, pigeons, ravens, and other voracious birds.
'You might just as well say that "I see what I eat" is the same thing as "I eat what I see"!''You might just as well say,' added the March Hare, 'that "I like what I get" is the same thing as "I get what I like"!''You might just as well say,' added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, 'that "I breathe when I sleep" is the same thing as "I sleep when I breathe"!''It is the same thing with you,' said the Hatter, and here the conversation dropped, and the party sat silent for a minute, while Alice thought over all she could remember about ravens and writing-desks, which wasn't much.
With these reflections I worked my mind up, not only to a resignation to the will of God in the present disposition of my circumstances, but even to a sincere thankfulness for my condition; and that I, who was yet a living man, ought not to complain, seeing I had not the due punishment of my sins; that I enjoyed so many mercies which I had no reason to have expected in that place; that I ought never more to repine at my condition, but to rejoice, and to give daily thanks for that daily bread, which nothing but a crowd of wonders could have brought; that I ought to consider I had been fed even by a miracle, even as great as that of feeding Elijah by ravens, nay, by a long series of miracles; and that I could hardly have named a place in the uninhabitable part of the world where I could have been cast more to my advantage; a place where, as I had no society, which was my affliction on one hand, so I found no ravenous beasts, no furious wolves or tigers, to threaten my life; no venomous creatures, or poisons, which I might feed on to my hurt; no savages to murder and devour me.
"And far better that crows and ravens--if any ravens there be in these regions--should pick my flesh from my bones, than that they should be prisoned in a workhouse coffin and moulder in a pauper's grave."
"By the ravens of the Holy Virgin! it must needs be a curious thing, that cell which my reverend brother hides so secretly!