posture quotes

And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revellers in the blood-bedecked halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall.

-Poe, EdgarAllan
  'The Masque of the Red Death', in the Gentleman's Magazine, May.

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