Words & Stuff

Which of the following attributes did Roderick Usher’s face once have, in the Edgar Allan Poe story “The Fall of the House of Usher”?

1. a cadaverousness of complexion
2. an eye large, liquid, and luminous beyond comparison
3. lips somewhat thin and very pallid, but of a surpassingly beautiful curve
4. a nose of a delicate Hebrew model, but with a breadth of nostril unusual in similar formations
5. a finely moulded chin, speaking, in its want of prominence, of a want of moral energy
6. an inordinate expansion above the regions of the temple
7. all of the above

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(This isn’t a serious quiz; really I was just amused by the prose.)