It struck something solid, and to Edmund's intense relief the spectre limped away with a howl of pain just as the key turned in the lock outside.
He was in a frenzy of despair, and rushing to the door, as the spectre had come up to him, he had made an ineffectual effort to open it, and was busily engaged in kicking its stout timbers to attract the attention of the gaolers.
Phantom, that by my bed dost beckoning glide, 8 Spectre of Death, to the damp charnel hie!
The favouring gales invite; the bowsprit bears Right onward to the fearful shade; more black The cloudy spectre towers; already fear 120 Shrinks at the view aghast and breathless.
The anchor was hove up by the spectre crew; the sails were set, and once more the phantom-ship was under weigh, once more bounding through the waves to regain her position, and fulfil her everlasting doom.
The spectre with the shriek 'Such she was, such were you, whose punishment Is just!
See, 'tis myself here standing alive, no spectre that speaks!
Till Herakles must help: Assure him that no spectre mocked at all; He was embracing whom he buried once.
At eight that evening accordingly, Swithin entered like a spectre upon the terrace to seek out the spot she had designated.
How entirely an answer of assent, at once acted on for better or for worse, would clear the spectre from her path, there needed no tongue to tell.
That spectre which had hovered over the city of Stirmingham so long--the spectre of the American claims--had at last put in its appearance, and was found to be hollow and unsubstantial.
The dread spectre of the gallows vanished from Wolf's Glow.
Hitherto the spectre of Murder had avoided those grand old hills.
Poor troubled bodies waking up in the night to behold visually the spectre cast forth from the perplexed machinery inside them, stare at it for a space, till touching consciousness they dive down under the sheets with fish-like alacrity.
The moment he fancied he saw this spectre of revolution, even in the far distance, he was impelled to modify and explain and warn until he had, for the moment, satisfied his sense of what was wise and prudent.
As before in his recollections of Deventer and Steyn, so now here in his memories of the Collége Montaigu, this spectre still, after thirty years, haunts his imagination.
The spectre of active proselytism on the part of Protestants abroad was vigorously conjured up to stimulate vigilance and justify repression.
It had fairly worn him out and driven him to abdication, and now its spectre broke in upon the repose for which his wearied soul and exhausted body had longed.
And where she sank, up slowly came The Spectre Horse from out the sea.
Perhaps to observe whether he had any spectre on his conscience.
When I devise a ghost, it shall be no impromptu spectre in yellow riding-boots, but a vision so awful, so true an image of a being returned from the dead, that the stoutest nerves will thrill and tremble at the apparition.
This fact distressed him, and he had tried hard to awaken his mother's interest by praises of the Fareham family and of Angela's exquisite character; but the Scarlet Spectre came between the Puritan lady and the house of Fareham.
He was too young and no doubt too selfish to admit that he was by way of outgrowing his clothes at least once if not twice a year, or that there is such a spectre as wear and tear.
Then the spectre began to bellow and roar, and utter whistling screams and all horrible sounds, worse than a wild beast.
And so intense is the fancy, that when we turn, and all is void, from that very void we could shape a spectre as fearful as the image our terror had foredrawn.
But I say, brother, who is yonder frate, the dark monk-spectre who always haunts your tower, lingering here and there about it?
The room, in which there was no natural light, seemed to be partially but quite sufficiently illuminated; and she felt confident that a spectre was before her.
This spectre appeared likewise to a Mrs. Radbourne, a Mrs. Griffiths, and a Mrs. Holding.
Mr. Rogers: Have you got “The Spectre of the Grave” here?
He is on his way, And singing as he flies; The whizzing planets shrink before The spectre of the skies; Ah!
Nor given him cause to deem himself beloved, Nor could he be a part of that which prey'd Upon her mind--a spectre of the past.
But when I did so, it seemed as if my fingers forced their way into empty skeleton sockets, or held only dry withered joints, and the spectre laughed aloud in shrilling tones of scorn and mockery.
The spectre glared on me with his fiery eyes--uttering at the same time the tremendous howlings, which had been before now so faithfully described to me.
By the power of holy water Freely sprinkled him upon, Back to very manhood changing Lez-Breiz stood—the spectre gone.
When the spectre thus had vanished, Changed to veritable man: “With me now you must hard penance Do,” the hermit sage began.
A spectre of human form, but of gigantic stature, arose from the spot to which the eyes of Isabella had been directed--was it the spirit of the Fountain?
I cannot understand why the spectre should be opposite in colour to the real image,” observed Tom.
Again the spectre raised a cry, and shook its chain and wrung its shadowy hands.
At this time of the rolling year,' the spectre said, 'I suffer most.
He thought of it, felt how easy it would be to do, and longed to do it; but he had no more power to withdraw the veil than to dismiss the spectreat his side.
Scrooge was very much dismayed to hear the spectre going on at this rate, and began to quake exceedingly.
When it had said these words, the spectretook its wrapper from the table, and bound it round its head as before.
The next morning glared in like a spectreupon her.
The elopement was now a spectre worse than the first, and, like the Spirit in Glenfinlas, it waxed taller with every attempt to lay it.
Elfride's disquiet now was on account of that miserable promise to meet Stephen, which returned like a spectre again and again.
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