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apparition

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Like a man but half awake, obeying an apparition, Mr. Kendal put his hand into his pocket and gave her the key.

The sight of Peter Oliphant, so unexpected an apparition, made her dumb.

The apparition or whatever it was that had taken the likeness of G—had disappeared.

Among the most celebrated visits of this body was that of 1066, when the apparition attracted universal attention.

By a perfectly natural process there rose in the stillness beyond the uncurtained window the apparition of his First Love.

He was absolutely astonished, however, at the effect of this apparition upon Captain Barton.

THE WATCHERJ. SHERIDAN LE FANU

A thrill of passion ran through the veins of the minnesinger; and, leaving his horse, he followed the apparition.

Harry Sanderson stared at the apparition with a strange feeling, like rising from the dead.

SATAN SANDERSONHALLIE ERMINIE RIVES

He shrunk from my embrace as if I were an apparition or impostor.

EDGAR HUNTLEYCHARLES BROCKDEN BROWN

Whatever explanation be attempted of this apparition, the ordinary resource of seal or walrus will not avail here.

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