Around and above them one then dimly discerns the movement of broken and drooping shadows, and the stirring of ranks and groups of specters against the walls.
One dimly sees the heavy specters of soldiers, mostly in groups, descending the street.
Faced by difficulties there--mostly the specters of his own former utterances evoked by German adversaries--his progress at first was slow.
The Doctor had no opinion to express; one of the family specters was engaging his attention at the moment.
Still voiceless as spectersthe guards leaped ashore and Neil roused himself to follow them, climbing over the gunwale like a sick man.
The men uttered no sound but ranged themselves like specters in front of the door, their cocked rifles swung into the crooks of their arms.
Those words, last heard at Batu Kawan, fifty years before, now of a sudden rose to him like specters of great evil.
The dead are specters of the living, but the living are specters of the dead.
One of these specterswas standing, and with cloven jaws so enlarged that his head was half open, he was smiling.
I have read, in some old marvelous tale, Some legend strange and vague, That a midnight host of specters pale Beleaguered the walls of Prague.
A funeral train comes gliding by your bed, in which Passion and Feeling assume bodily shape and things of the mind become dim specters to the eye.
Beulah was chilled; there were cold thoughts in her mind--icy specters in her heart; and she quickened her pace up and down the avenue, dusky beneath the ancient gloomy cedars.
A pall seemed suddenly thrown over the future, and the orphaned heart shrank back from the lonely path where only specters were visible.
Lifting his hand, he said sternly: "Ah, what pale specters that face calls up from the grim, gray ruins of memory!
Soon after midnight a canoe filled with the specters of departed Cheyenne warriors shot out from the eastern side of the lake and crossed rapidly to the western border; there it suddenly disappeared.
The specters had been sent from the Happy Hunting-Grounds to indicate that the tribe should move farther west, and the sudden disappearance of the monthly signal was augured to mean the extinction of the race.
Never a word or sound escaped from the specters in the canoe.
She was wearing one of these mantles and the specters seized it.
But the specters and ghosts were all with me, all out in the whirling storm.
A double line of these pole-specters stretches along the road in front of my door, holding hands around the world.
The keen and exact Deodat Lawson states that the afflicted ones "talked with the specters as with living persons.
I do verily believe they did not hear at that time; yet did they discourse with the specters as with real persons.
The psychologist will not overlook the fact that persons whose specters were here presented were such as had in some way previously aroused suspicion that they were witches.
It will appear from the above and future answers that the specters first attacked the children on a Wednesday evening, just six weeks before this 2d of March.
They affirmed that "they saw the ghosts of several departed persons," and they did "discourse with the specters as with real persons.
Around most persons, who in the sequel of these pages shall be found appearing as specters and as bewitching and tormenting others, will be found signs that they were very like such as to-day are called mediums.
Keep the specters of the past back among the dead where they belong; don't let them stalk in your present in which you are just beginning to find what life really is.
You have heard of men who lost their reason by being accidentally locked in a tomb overnight--think what it has meant to me to live with the specters of the dead for twenty years!
The dark and heavy thunder-clouds that advance slowly seem like the shrouds ofspecters of departed greatness.
The guilty man, awaking from sleep, thinks that he sees the specters of those he has wronged--because his dreams have embodied them for him.
Gothic authors were not overstrong on technique and they may have hesitated to let their specters be too fluent lest they be guilty of dialectic errors.
The specters of to-day are more versatile,--they can turn their hand to any kind of haunting that is desired and show an admirable power of adaptability, though there are highly developed specialists as well.
These ghosts of dead selves from the past are different from the doubles that are projections of the living, or prophetic specters of the future, and are clearly distinguished.
William Beckford in his Vathek presents two thousand specters in one assembly.
Specters used to appear to forewarn the living against impending danger, which impulse is rather lacking in later fiction though it still occurs.
Specters are thus placed at a disadvantage, for one would scarcely expect to see even the wraith of a Texas cow-boy toting a pistol.
The pallid specters that glide through antique castles are ineffectual compared with the maleficent psychic invasions of modernity.
Later ghostly fiction introduces few of the clankings of chains and lugubrious groans that made the Gothic romance mournful, and the modern specters are less wailful than the earlier, but more articulate in their expression.
Yet even so the Gothic ghosts were morbid, low-minded specters not much happier than the unlucky wights they felt it their business to haunt.
Nor does the ghost, that these pale specters would avenge, at all disquiet me.
O lonely spirit, let thy song Lead me through all thy sacred haunt, The minster's moonlight aisles along Where spectersraise the midnight chant.
There the monstrousspecters stand in our midnight room, the advance guard of the darkness of the world, held off by our valiant little glim, but ready to flood instantly and founder us in original gloom.
It is a rambling fragmentary piece of mental hodge-podge, in which scraps of school book Egyptology, garbled Bible stories, false political economy and fragments of misapplied history tumble over each other likespecters in a delirium.
The gaunt specters of Want and Pestilence are not of his creation; they were born of Greed and Ignorance.
This was supposed effectually to drive the specters away--an opinion which was always abundantly confirmed by the fact; for on looking round after this vociferated adjuration, the man always found that the specters were gone!
The specters were supposed to gather up these beans as he threw them down.
The ghosts, or specters of the dead that came back to haunt and terrify the living were called lemures.
The father of the family would rise at that hour and go out at the door of the house, making certain gesticulations and signals with his hands, which were supposed to have the effect of keeping the specters away.
The figures around him appeared like the moving specters in a horrible dream, while a black cloud of despair seemed to envelop him.
The grim specters of the night were too horrible to endure, and he had sought to escape their torments by the act which he had attempted.
As we passed that point, far away in the distance among the trees, by the light of the abandoned fires, could be seen men flitting like specters through the places where the camps had been.
Three-quarters of a mile away the white tents of Custer's camp looked like weird specters in the moonlight.
And with those spectersof survivors, the victory of Boyacá was obtained.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
