Already for some time before that forced climax Gerald had been haunted by the feeling that he ought to offer himself to Aurora, as it were to regularize his status in her house.
And the reason for my wretched night was that I was haunted by all the reasons there are why you should not come.
And each Sunday John and Desmond walked to the Haunted House, ascended the tower, and talked.
He was unable to concentrate his mind upon work or play, deprived of sleep, haunted by the conviction that if Desmond knew all, he would turn from him for ever.
Then, in answer to a few eager questions, he told the story of the Haunted House; haunted, indeed, by the ghosts of what might have been.
We'll walk to theHaunted House, and I'll tell my tale.
As the boys jumped over the last stile into the lane which led to the Haunted House, Desmond exclaimed-- "By Jove, the gates are open!
One soft afternoon in spring, after four Bill, Desmond and John were approaching the iron gates of the Haunted House.
It is unpleasant to be haunted by these suspicions.
A sad, lonely, fateful place it is, haunted for ever by the gods of old, the dreams of men.
From the tomb of the infamous tyrant grew a gigantic walnut-tree, the roosting-place of innumerable crows, supposed to be demons that haunted the evil place.
But it is impossible to dwell upon all the remarkable events with which this haunted shrine of Rome's earliest and most beautiful worship is associated.
From morning to sunset I lingered on this haunted path, and tried to enter into sympathy with old-world sorrows that have left behind no chronicles save these silent stones.
Plucking a leafy twig from the branches and a gray lichen from the trunk as mementoes of the place, I sat down on the mossy hole, and tried to bring back in imagination the haunted past.
Tasso's wonderful success could not be forgiven by some of the petty aspirants after literary fame who haunted the ducal precincts.
A bad man might be insensible to the moral beauties of religion, but he was still haunted by the recollection of its threatenings.
After this scene of affected cheerfulness, Bruce retired to his tent, where he was again haunted by the reflections which he had in vain endeavoured to shake off.
He tried to reconstruct from the victim of three-and-sixty years the pink-slippered hamadryad who had haunted him all his life.
I am haunted by the vision of that poor Antonina Ivanovna, helpless to keep silence in her love, and winning her bridegroom only to find, like Elsa, that her Lohengrin could not give her his Heart.
He did not know that she had new shoes and a new dress, and that some of the color had gone from her red lips, and that her cheeks were paler, and that she could no longer hide the old hauntedlook in her eyes.
Ten minutes later he was paddling up the shore of Wollaston, and for a week thereafter he haunted the creeks and inlets, always on the move.
For this moment was to solve a doubt, a harassing enigma which had for some time haunted Alyosha.
Though the boy tried not to show how he disliked it, he saw with an aching heart that his father was an object of contempt, and he was continuallyhaunted by the memory of the “wisp of tow” and that “terrible day.
He kept on repeating ‘He ran away squealing’: the sight of that haunted him.
I kept fancying how the little thing cried and moaned (a child of four years old understands, you know), and all the while the thought of pineapple compote haunted me.
But he began to be haunted by another idea—an idea which he had at first regarded as impossible and unthinkable, though at last it got such a hold on his heart that he could not shake it off.
This new something was the harassing impression left by the conversation with Ivan, which now persistently haunted Alyosha’s mind.
A thousand times perhaps he may, recalling his childhood, have driven away the loathsome phantoms that haunted his childish dreams and with all his heart he may have longed to embrace and to forgive his father!
One of the monks was haunted in his dreams and, later on, in waking moments, by visions of evil spirits.
At last he began to be bitterly and ominously haunted by the blood of his murdered victim, by the young life he had destroyed, by the blood that cried out for vengeance.
Not for scoundrels, but for pedantic poseurs, ‘haunted by profound, unsolved doubts.
Recovering himself slowly, he went on along the path, every step of which washaunted by the form of Lily.
Now we know the words that haunted us: "Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness!
For one heart beat of flinching his haunted soul looked from his eyes; then with a gray courage, he set his lips to silence.
Eustace was haunted by his dream--a second in a dream is equivalent to hours of real life.
But Mr. Orban knew that his wife was haunted by a very constant horror of them--a dread lest one night the blacks should make a raid upon their plantation, as they had been known to do upon other white men's dwellings.
When he awoke at last to find the sun rising, he could lie still no longer, he was haunted by such restless thoughts.
Her dreams of the past night, being such cheerful ones, had exorcised the gloom, and now haunted the chamber in its stead.
Nevertheless, creeping darkly through the places which this excellent person had haunted in his lifetime, there was a hidden stream of private talk, such as it would have shocked all decency to speak loudly at the street-corners.
The dreary night--for, oh, how dreary seems its haunted waste, behind us!
His mind was haunted with the many and strange tales which he had heard, attributing mysterious if not supernatural endowments to these Maules, as well the grandson here present as his two immediate ancestors.
Though it is not generally known, the East End of London is far more haunted than the West.
Illustration] I might add that this is my one and only experience of spirit-writing, and also that it was my one and only experience in the haunted house near Ealing, as I did not succeed in getting leave to spend a night there.
Yet I heard of three haunted houses at least whilst I was there.
I have noticed, for example, houses, where several people have been medically stated to have died of cancer, have been haunted by disturbances of a parallel nature to those you experienced.
I have a great many friends amongst actors and actresses, and I find them not only keenly interested in my work, but always ready—even when working hard themselves—to share my vigils in a haunted house.
I did eventually, but not until the year I published “Some Haunted Houses of England and Wales,” when I got into correspondence with a very old lady, whom I will call Miss Carmichael.
I went to him to have a tooth filled, and during the operation I asked him if he knew of any haunted houses in the town.
Thy constant true Adorer, Who all this fatal Day has haunted thee To ease his tortur'd Soul.
Pox of the Devil, I say, this last night's Devil has sohaunted me-- Sir Cau.
Never was a child so hauntedby a pet sheep, or a handsome husband by a plain wife, as was this charming papa by his doating daughter.
He was like a haunted man who sees his following phantom if he turns his head ever so little.
Facanapa, also, in his great scene of the Haunted Poet, is tremendous.
The place was peopled after all, though we had left it, and I think the tenants who come after us will be haunted by our spectres, crowding them on the pleasant little balcony, and sitting down with them at table.
After a while, Raissa, haunted by remorse, commits suicide, and Dorimedonte is killed by some revolutionists.
The memories haunted us both, and hurried us to our special mission.
I cannot live locked in that room alone, haunted by my thoughts and memories.
While only one among many operating in thosehaunted waters, his resourcefulness, daring and cruelty had won him an infamous reputation, a name of horror.
Connected with him was a story which Ruskin told me there of a locality in the valley of Chamounix, of which the guides had told him, haunted by a ghost which could be seen only by children.
Awful spiritual presences haunted me always in the dark, when I passed a churchyard or an empty and solitary house.
In Paris, amid the intellectual exaltation and enthusiasms of the Encyclopædists, the memory of his lost peacehaunted him like an uneasy conscience.
So it was that the moments which seemed to come to him free from the infirmity of becominghaunted and held him most.
