pernicious

totemic

supplanted,

Always didactic, he went into a learned exposition of the diabolical properties of cinnabar,

That tardy shudder which had not figured in his forethought made his breakfast bitter.

The whole structure seemed to occupy its own space, one of solitude and oblivion, protected from the vices of time and the habits of the birds.

glacial exhalation.

lugubrious

prophesying