This, nine o'clock, was the fatal hour when the ghosts of her dead past paced like caged beasts up and down in her small room, and the wraith of the day's work rattled its chains.
Thus Victoria had reached her last stage when, sitting alone in her room, she once more faced the emptiness where the ghosts of her dead past paced like caged beasts and the wraith of the day's work rattled its chains.
King Trisanku A Wraith in the Mist The Three Kings Song: "Stay, Stay at Home, my Heart, and Rest.
Through the mist of the valley damp and gray The sentinels hear the sound, and say, "That is the wraith Of Victor Galbraith!
The doctor pursed his lips and puckered his eyebrows above the little wraith who minded him not at all, lying with eyes half closed, plucking with finger and thumb at the bedclothing.
Yet shall I dream of it shudderingly, Vanished, eldritch ship of the sea, Fearful lest some barque be borne In wake of the wraith (ah, hearts that mourn!
A mist crept landward, the spent wraith Of tempests raging far a-lee; Then day died like an outworn faith, And night fell on the sea.
His host shuddered, looked through the window apprehensively in the gloaming, saw some vague, misty wraith approaching.
He is alive, he is alive,' she cried to them, as she followed hot foot after the wraith that led to the rocky lynn.
I thought as I came alang I had a sort of a feeling as of a wraith nigh about me--a lang, eldritch sort o' a form i' the mist.
Have you ever heard of any one having encountered the form or wraith of this Lord Warden of old?
Then to himself again he muttered, 'I doubt he is not long for this world, since I met his wraith as I entered into the choir.
The wraith led onward; Kitty let herself out of the window, and thence to the ground by help of the ivy roots.
Like a little white wraith Arlee fled through the room and turned the handle of the door at the head of the haremlik stairs.
Then as the match flared up she saw that it was no Wraith of Vengeance she held.
It was said that the little woman never appeared in public without a gray veil, and her wraith was recognized by the long gauzy covering floating loosely back from its face, not gray but white, as more becoming a spirit.
He saw it for a fantasy, a self-evoked wraith of the imagination, a dizzy flight of the spirit through spirit space.
This was considered a remarkably clear instance of a person's wraith or spirit being seen at the time of death.
However, the seeing of a person's wraith was not always an omen of death.
A pale wraith of smoke floated away on the fan-churned air, and Anisty was vaguely conscious of receiving the glowing cigarette from a hand whose sheer perfection was but enhanced by the ripe curves of a rounded forearm.
To be sure Mr. Menzies' own father died not long after, but the attempt to connect the wraith of a third person with that event is somewhat desperate.
Next, at first hand from Mr. Short, we have a death-wraith beheld by him of his friend Mr. Scrimgeour.
Though Mr. Law is strong in witches and magic, he has very few ghost stories; indeed, according to his philosophy, even a common wraith of a living person is really the devil in that disguise.
Mr. Menzies, minister of Erskine, once beheld the wraith of a friend smoking a pipe, but the owner of the wraith did not die, or do anything remarkable.
To see a friendly wraith smoking a pipe, even if he take the liberty of doing so in one's bedroom, is not very ill-boding.
A traveller in New Zealand illustrates the native belief in the death-wraith by an amusing anecdote.
She believed her life would shape itself to this future; but sometimes a wraith in the back-country of her mind rose shrieking: "Never!
Before the reverence and worship of his eyes the wraith fled.
And, as he spoke, the wraith of Uncle Donald, banished till now, returned as large as ever, puffing disapproval through a walrus moustache.
The stout wraith of Uncle Donald, which had accompanied Mr. Carmyle on this expedition of his, faded into nothingness as he gazed.
Across the stair she wavered, a wraith blown across the gulf of time.
It has color, is a living thing, the thin wraith that pursues man ever to his grave.
It is the wraithbride o' the peel," said the old forester.
Even the wraith bride performed her part now, where she had feeling to help her weakness, and set her up among realities.
When these parties entered, Geordie's eyes and mouth had relapsed into that condition they presented on that occasion when he saw the wraith by the bed with the green curtains.
A white wraith of mist, like the very ghost of a cloud, was creeping silently along the mountain side and veiled the vision of the wide lands below.
Yet the change had come but recently--perhaps on that very morning--for though the fire had dropped to ashes on the hearth, a tiny wraith of smoke still lingered and drifted waveringly up the chimney.
O hollow wraith of dying fame, Fade wholly, while the soul exults, And self-infolds the large results Of force that would have forged a name.
Something in this cry seemed familiar to Eliphalet, and he felt sure that it proceeded from the family ghost, the warning wraith of the Duncans.
The voice in the corner declared that the Duncan wraith had never thought of matrimony.
When he left his office about two o'clock the next day to learn his fate, he had not walked five blocks before he discovered that the wraith of the Duncans had withdrawn his opposition to the suit.
He talked the wraith of the Duncans and the spectre of the little old house at Salem into a matrimonial engagement.
Rrisa breathed something in which the words: "La Illaha ilia Allah" transpired in a wraithof sound.
I must compliment you on one thing, madam," said he, with just the wraith of a smile.
The face cometh again As a wraith of sleep: A boy's face delicate and blonde, The very mask of God, Broken.
He sees his wraith stop suddenly, poised on the very brink of a frightful precipice, those terrible shapes behind; a yawning, mist-hid gulf before.
