Crossword-Solution: METZENGERSTEIN 14 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 26

Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY LIONIZING X-ING A PARAGRAB METZENGERSTEIN THE SYSTEM OF DOCTOR TARR AND PROFESSOR FETHER THE LITERARY LIFE OF THINGUM BOB, ESQ.

Bullet-head ‘never could be persuaded fur to drink like other folks, but vas continually a-svigging o’ that ere blessed XXX ale, and as a naiteral consekvence, it just puffed him up savage, and made him X (cross) in the X-treme.’ METZENGERSTEIN Pestis eram vivus—moriens tua mors ero.

For example, “_The soul_,” said the former—I give the words of an acute and intelligent Parisian—“_ne demeure qu’un seul fois dans un corps sensible: au reste—un cheval, un chien, un homme même, n’est que la ressemblance peu tangible de ces animaux._” The families of Berlifitzing and Metzengerstein had been at variance for centuries.

The origin of this enmity seems to be found in the words of an ancient prophecy—“A lofty name shall have a fearful fall when, as the rider over his horse, the mortality of Metzengerstein shall triumph over the immortality of Berlifitzing.” To be sure the words themselves had little or no meaning.

Moreover, near neighbors are seldom friends; and the inhabitants of the Castle Berlifitzing might look, from their lofty buttresses, into the very windows of the palace Metzengerstein.