The spectralform of an officer appeared at her elbow, said something in a low voice, and walked aft.
In a house bought by the family of Fox in Hydesville in New York State a spectral knocking was often heard.
Both evaporate the resurrection into a mere spectral spirit manifestation; and the disclosures and utterances of the spirits with both are equally trivial, silly, and vain.
While through the night rides in the spectralsurf Along the spectral sands, And all the air vibrates, as if from harps Touched by phantasmal hands.
The spectral soldier was at his side like a stalking reproach.
The shoulder of one of the tramping bearers knocked heavily against the spectral soldier who was staring into the unknown.
And under these conditions, which are only vaguely felt at present, language has gradually become a force in itself which with spectral arms coerces and drives humanity where it least wants to go.
It was an uncanny tale of a soldier of Frederick the Great, who had perished in the Seven Years' War, and who came at midnight on a spectral steed to claim his ladylove and carry her off a thousand miles to the bridal bed.
I have known people most wittily ridicule, or gravely discountenance, a belief in spectral appearances, and all the time I could see in their faces that once in their lives at least they had been frightened at their own shadow.
On his return to the veranda, as he raised his head, he saw at the top of the main staircase a figure wan as death, a spectral apparition amid the shadows of the passing night, who leaned toward him.
The spectral figure of Ivan Petrovitch, bent beside the door of the stairway, seemed to be hearing things the others could not catch, but which frightened them so that they fled from the general's chamber in disorder.
It was reserved for the nineteenth century to produce the greatest of spectral exhibitions, that of Prof.
The spectators on entering the Cabaret pass through a long hall hung with black and find themselves in a spectral restaurant.
He could not sit still under the torture of such suspense, when he thought of all that was at stake on the outcome of the conflict which might even then be waging beyond those spectral trees.
But he went on with a smiling shake of his head, after a glance at the dark clouds which were gathering blackly on the other side of the river behind the spectral cottonwoods, now bare of leaves and ghostly white.
Over there, beyond those spectral cottonwoods and on the banks of its tributary, the Wabash, the white and the red races were about to meet in a supreme struggle now close at hand.
These spectral trees stand close to its brink and stretch their phantom arms far over its broad waters, as if perpetually warding off the vast floods that rush down from the North.
All parties feared him: each in turn Beheld its schemes disjointed, As right or left his fatal glance And spectral finger pointed.
Down the broad Vale of Tears afar The spectral camp is fled; Faith shineth as a morning star, Our ghastly fears are dead.
Upon its midnight battle-ground The spectral camp is seen, And, with a sorrowful deep sound, Flows the River of Life between.
The Zeeman effect consists in the splitting up of certain spectral lines into other lines - hence, of a breaking up of a whole into parts.
The spectralphenomenon now begins at one side with light blue and passes into indigo and violet, with uncoloured darkness in the centre.
It was the Dutchman, Zeeman, who first observed a change in the appearance of certain spectral lines as a result of light passing through a magnetic field.
Nevertheless, Eddington complains, experts, in spite of knowing better, keep to the traditional way of speaking about the spectral colours as being originally contained in the light.
Meantime, I may say that the incidents attending the two spectral appearances that I have recorded, gave us occasion for much curious speculation, in which there was a certain relief in indulging ourselves.
I am sure I should not dare to go; it looks sospectral and frightful.
Little thought had Hilda now of spectraltrees or ghostly gloom.
The firs stood tall and gaunt, closing like a spectral guard about the ruined mill, and pointing their long, dark fingers in silent menace at the intruder upon their evening repose.
The spectral blue eyes were fixed upon him steadfastly, the pallid lips slowly opened and spoke.
What was there in that poor corpse to fling a bleakness into the night wind, to draw an echo as chilling as a madman's cry out of the gusty moaning aloft, to sadden the very star-beams into dull and spectral twinklings?
She was as complete a mystery of the ocean night as any spectral fabric, and a heavier terror to me than a phantasm worked by ghosts could have proved.
The ocean ahead and around was the duskier for the spectral illumination of the near foam and the glimmer of the ice-coated ship.
The spectral hand placed itself on the tiny chest.
The discovery affected her like the touch of a spectral hand.
That spectral kiss placed on her forehead, which had brought such solace to her as she lay in misery and loneliness, haunted her.
Yes; probably with a spectral donkey braying," said Ursula.
And now the stream is rolling between us, she may be weeping alone on the other side in the midst of spectral horrors!
It was not that any spectral delusion disturbed the scene of festivity; for the castle, as we well know, had been secured against the mischief of water-spirits.
Our day's march had carried us into a well- wooded country, and the spectral dry sticks of the old burnt forest were behind us.
The wind blew in gusts, driving the rain in sheets over the face of the hills and through the spectral trees, finally dashing it in bucketfuls against our tent.
It was over there, just west of that high spectral bluff, that Hubbard and I, on a wet July night, had pitched our first camp of the other trip.
