Only shadows come and go; Only wraiths flit to and fro; And the bat, grotesque and blind, And the wind.
The cromlechs stand on Carrowmore As they 've stood since who can say; And the thin wraiths flit o'er Carrowmore Between the dusk and the day.
For, at the waking o’ the Spring, The wraiths o’ blooms agone Shall rise them up from out the mould And speak to thee of Him.
But these upper heights were now hidden in clouds and wraiths of frost fog, their faces shrouded in this winter veil which--except for rare bursts of sunshine or sweeping northwest wind--would not be lifted till the vernal equinox.
Far up on the mountains the drifts piled deep, and winter mists blew in clammy wraiths across the shoulders of the hills.
But the Professor condoned my failure in the regular psychical line, in consideration of my brilliant success as a beholder of wraiths and visions.
Beyond me lay the inlet still and blue, Behind, the mountains loomed upon the view Like storm-wraiths gathered from the low-hung sky.
I was sure that their wraiths were still in it, and that our presence annoyed them.
Every room was full of Presence, evidently the wraiths of the departed were interested in what was going on; for, "All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses.
There's never a ripple upon the tide, There's never a word or sound; But over the waste the white wraiths glide, To look for the souls of the drowned.
What visions stalked before him, wraiths of his dead, stormy past, Bab had no guess; but that hatred stirred thickly in his heart one had but to see his face to know.
Almost instantly they were gone, like wraiths dissolving into the wall of the foliage that enframed them.
A west wind comes away, freshens, and stirs the vapour till it whips close overhead in wraiths and streamers, raises here and there a fold on the distant horizon, then dies again.
We nose at the air, seeking a waft of coal-smoke, but the rain is beating straight down, basting the funnel-wraiths on the flat of the sea.
The morning, that broke fair and unclouded, has turned grey; a damp sea-mist is wandering over the bay in thin wraiths and feathers, but sunlight on the brown of the distant hills promises a clearing as the day draws on.
This belief in wraiths goes back to a very early period of man's history.
The belief inwraiths was prevalent throughout all Scotland.
He suddenly felt exposed there, and sought shelter from the wraiths above among the overhung shadows of the left-hand wall.
He reached up and continued to climb as the noise died away and only a ghost image of the wraiths remained frozen in the air.
Then suddenly the wraiths were aware of him and streaked down from the high walls with a shrieking wail that was horrible to hear.
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And it may be appropriate here to notice that in quite a number of the cases of wraiths or phantasms projected (in forty cases out of three hundred and sixteen as given by Edmund Gurney in Proceedings S.
In early literature wraiths took themselves very seriously, and insisted on a proper show of respectful fear on the part of those whom they honored by haunting.
At all events, he had made a special study of the wraiths and white ladies and banshees and bogies of all kinds whose sayings and doings and warnings are recorded in the annals of the Scottish nobility.
Had it been possible, I would have stopped this riot of wraiths long ere this, for it was more awful than I had anticipated, but it was already too late.
In its mysterious dimness the wraiths of mist and fog became processions of ghosts stealing slowly up the hill--spirits of the dead on their way to judgment.
All alone with the sun that rushed behind them in their skimming flight, they fled like wraiths across the emptiness of the great void.
At once the gunners, grey wraithsin grey smoke, were busy; busy also at once the shapes upon the opposite ridge, blue wraiths in grey smoke.
But I cast my net with never a fear, tho wraiths in me And birds of wild unrest were stirring and starting and crying.
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