How To Use Apparition In A Sentence
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Believing in the authenticity of such apparitions is not even a requirement of Catholic faith.
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As I pressed through the thick underwood, I startled a strange-looking apparition in one of the open spaces beside the gulf, where, as shown by the profusion of plants of _vaccinium_, the blaeberries had greatly abounded in their season.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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He stared at the strange apparition before him.
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The fact is that our founders did not give us a nation frightened by the apparition of the Deity lurking about in our most central places.
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She said the tiny lights I kept seeing were the apparition's energy.
Times, Sunday Times
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They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master.
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The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost, and the apparitions is a key element in making the concept of the play work and in making the play interesting.
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On his abrupt and unexpected apparition, Diana paled and Ruth flushed slightly, whereupon Sir Rowland might have bethought him, had he been book-learned, of the axiom, "Amour qui rougit, fleurette; amour qui plit, drame du coeur.
Mistress Wilding
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One only has to witness the apparition, the manifestation.
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Beneath the surface the green gloom parted to reveal the foggy apparition of the cutter's mast pointing us down towards the wreck.
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Ghoulish apparitions and spooky spectres are being put under the spotlight at a York tourist attraction.
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Each mountain, as if its firm and immutable form were flexible and varying, altered in appearance, like that of a shadowy apparition, as the position of the strangers relative to them changed with their motions, and as the mist, which continued slowly though constantly to descend, influenced the rugged as pect of the hilts and valleys which it shrouded with its vapory mantle.
Anne of Geierstein
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He posed a nude model to fix the exact posture of Salome in the water-colour version of The Apparition in the Louvre.
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Rumours of ghosts and strange apparitions in Windhouse are widespread.
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The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
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In 1462, Ficino decorated the Medici villa at Careggi (home to the Platonic Academy) with astrological signs,10 an ornamental scheme also found in frescoes of the Sala dei Mesi at the Palazzo Schifanoia, Ferrara (1470) ,11 and in ceilings of the Medici palace at Florence (1456), whose lapis lazuli and gold-leaf ornament offered admirers a sparkling abstraction of the starry sky. 12 We can imagine a similar heavenly apparition in the gold and sapphire ceiling of the Urbino studiolo, especially when illuminated by a setting sun or candlelight.
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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He goes on to relate many other such stories, mainly involving apparitions on the mission field.
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He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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This marks the beginning of a yearlong apparition, when the giant planet will blaze within the stars of Gemini.
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The image of a woman crouching before an ivy-covered wall, her body an apparition of light-sensitive salts, is anchored to a new body.
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I well remember the first occasion on which I saw a spotted forktail; I was walking down a Himalayan path, alongside of which a brook was flowing, when suddenly from a rock in mid-stream there arose a black-and-white apparition, that flitted away, displaying a long tail fluttering behind it.
Birds of the Indian Hills
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The difficulty of keeping soldiers from straying out of quarters by night, would have sufficiently accounted for the appearance of a straggling foot-soldier; but it was more difficult to account for a mounted horseman, in full armour; and such was the apparition which a peculiarly bright glimpse of moonlight now showed at the bottom of the causewayed hill.
Castle Dangerous
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With the face resting against his fist, the apparition assumes the pose of melancholy - an affirmation of how the artistic temperament is born from overcoming tribulation and suffering.
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As I looked, I saw the singular apparition of a moving "whimsey" at the top of Brierley Hill, dark and black against the shining surface.
Personal Recollections of Birmingham and Birmingham Men
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The terror lies not in the apparitions themselves, but in what is happening to the children; they change from ‘sweet things’ to open liars and mean-spirited little beings.
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Lastly, for the errors brought in from false or uncertain history, what is all the legend of fictitious miracles in the lives of the saints; and all the histories of apparitions and ghosts alleged by the doctors of the Roman Church, to make good their doctrines of hell and purgatory, the power of exorcism, and other doctrines which have no warrant, neither in reason nor Scripture; as also all those traditions which they call the unwritten word of God; but old wives 'fables?
Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill
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The stunning apparition of a comet's tail was long regarded as a portent of doom and disaster, and in a way this is not too far from the mark.
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To him he says that, if the King's occulted guilt does not come out ( 'unkennel itself'), he (Hamlet) will look upon the apparition as a damned ghost, and (this is new) will think that his 'imaginations are as foul as Vulcan's stithy.'
Shakspere and Montaigne
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John Seifert, the watchman in the factory, August Beck, a saloonkeeper, directly across the street from the building, and Gustaf Haas, who lives in the house formerly occupied by Adolph Luetgert, are three of the many persons who have seen the apparition.
Robert Loerzel: In Search of Mrs. Luetgert's Ghost
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Unless I am establishing an alibi or there are ghostly apparitions hovering next to me, I'm not too bothered at seeing pictures of myself somewhere, but of course I'm too polite to say anything.
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The Battle of Salamis
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‘The apparent headlessness of the apparition, you mean?’
Spotted Hemlock
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In the Christian tradition, people like St. Bernadette Soubirous, the 19th-century woman who saw apparitions of the Virgin Mary in the town of Lourdes, are called "visionaries.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: St. Steve Jobs? Probably Not, But….
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Thus all is purged from the grossness of sense, from the carking cares and foul vices of the World; and rides there, on its Clothes-horse; as, on a Pegasus, might some skyey Messenger, or purified Apparition, visiting our low Earth.
The Obama-Spears-Hilton photo-op.
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By late in the month Mercury becomes visible low above the western horizon at twilight, a preview of its showing in March, when the planet will make its best evening apparition of the year.
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Through the ceiling came apports of fresh flowers with the dew on them, or roots with the soil still clinging; great dinner-tables rose from the floor; lights flitted; apparitions appeared, spoke to you, took you by the hand.
The Way Home
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Of, relating to, or resembling a ghost, a wraith, or an apparition; spectral.
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From time to time, Mary has shared these treasures with us through remarkable apparitions.
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He said in his dream he saw the apparition of his dead wife.
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This apparition turns out to be real - Ghost has been bullwhipped and starved.
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Without the witches, the ghost, the visions, and the apparitions, ‘Macbeth’ would have been a dull and tiresome play.
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One day, as she roams deep in the forest, ill with allergies and the flu, her sweat-shirt hood pulled tightly around her like a postmodern wimple, Ann experiences an apparition of the Virgin Mary.
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Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet.
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The patch of wild raspberries, whose location is known only to us and to the apparitional gamekeeper, is laden with fruit.
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The ghosts aren't malignant apparitions; they're special effects.
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He said in his dream he saw the apparition of his dead wife.
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Behind the grille (before which, as you can see, a lot of candles are placed by the faithful), underneath the altar of grace which serves as a baldachin for it, and at the very centre of the Basilica is the original spot of the apparition, with the earth visible below the floor level.
Catholic Bamberg: Vierzehnheiligen
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Earlier I compared the apparition of specters in Observe the Sons of Ulster to sequences of reverance in Macbeth and Hamlet.
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The feedback in this case showed that the sole witness to the apparition was a six year old boy named Roddy.
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This morning's horror, the sallow? faced pervert who'd accosted her, all faded at the sight of the glorious bewinged apparition paralleling the bus.
The Metrognome and Other Stories
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Whatever becomes of Kim, whatever his success or unsuccess in the world of action, ‘would not the lama still remain before him as a loving apparition of a ‘Way’ never to be accepted wholly but never to be abandoned wholly?’
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He held completely still, afraid to move and send the apparition skittering back into the depths of his sleep-riddled mind.
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They were moving at a crouch or lying looking up at us as we drove happily along, an apparition in a no-go area.
Whicker's War
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+ "apports" i.e., apparitions of visible agency to convey them;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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Two examples are the dramatic cases of bilocation of French Mother Yvonne-Aimee and the lay Italian mystic Natuzza Evolo, generally ignored by students of OBEs and apparitions.
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Altogether there were 21 apparitional sightings, 4 involving two viewers.
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Thus all is purged from the grossness of sense, from the carking cares and foul vices of the World; and rides there, on its Clothes-horse; as, on a Pegasus, might some skyey Messenger, or purified Apparition, visiting our low Earth.
The Obama-Spears-Hilton photo-op.
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The city was full of Undead - everything from animated skeletons to ghostly apparitions, and zombies.
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All over Ireland, posters advertise pilgrim coach tours to Knock, a town famous for apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
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My sounds seemed momentarily to disconcert the boar, and while he halted and shifted his weight with indecision, an apparition burst upon us.
CHAPTER III
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Vanish in dark, the empty apparition!
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The second celestial apparition was a faint, pearly cone of light slanting up the eastern sky.
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As May begins, Mercury is continuing the poor apparition it made in April, hanging low in the east at sunrise.
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Of course, this scary apparition is a specter much more often cited than sighted.
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Angela told Nick the tale of the mysterious apparition of a beauteous "nighty," and wondered how she could ever have felt unhappy, or depressingly grown up.
The Port of Adventure
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Of course, this scary apparition is a specter much more often cited than sighted.
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All over Ireland, posters advertise pilgrim coach tours to Knock, a town famous for apparitions of the Virgin Mary.
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The barguest is an apparition, taking usually the form of a big black dog with saucer eyes.
Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems
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In this sense, ‘ghosts’ mean the spirits, the apparition of the dead or the devils.
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Confronting ghostly apparitions of Annabel, he is overwhelmed by guilt for forcing her to have children to prove his manhood.
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The use of the supernatural in the witches, the visions, the ghost, and the apparitions is a key element in making the concept of the play work and in making the play interesting.
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an airy apparition
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They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master.
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He often looks perplexed, as though interrupted from a dream, and you wonder if in the noisy belligerence of the dressing room he does not fade from view like an apparition.
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Those that, to confute their incredulity, desire to see apparitions, shall, questionless, never behold any, nor have the power to be so much as witches.
Religio Medici
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She became a shadow of her former self, like a ghost, an apparition that makes the same trip every day unable to finish it, bound to start it all over again.
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The apparition is myself, and I stare dumbfounded as my double punches me in the stomach.
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Preliminary findings with electrostatic fields, ionizing radiation, infrasonic waves, and meteorological factors are also examined to consider their effects on the brain in relation to apparitional experiences.
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A strange apparition appeared before me as I opened my eyes.
THE LAST OF THE GENTLEMEN ADVENTURERS: Coming of Age in the Arctic
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We returned to our remote northern fastnesses to find that the Apparitional Gamekeeper had been busy.
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His eyes, lazy a second ago, stared at me wildly as if I was a ghost, an apparition.
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It would, however, be totally wrong to assume that all apparitions are angels on assignment.
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They thought He was a ghost, a phantasm, an apparition, a spirit, anything except their Master.
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I'd love to waft around his gaff as a beautiful apparition, red hair flowing in the breeze, reminding him of what he's been missing.
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The scares come from things that go bump in the night rather than from ghostly apparitions making visitations.
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The apparition of Catherine Seyton, which the page had let loose in the first moment of astonishment, vanished in darkness; but the plash of oars was heard, and, in a second or two, five or six harquebuses and a falconet were fired from the battlements of the castle successively, as if levelled at some object on the water.
The Abbot
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He seeks to understand the truth behind the stories of good and bad angels, magic, apparitions, vampires, witchcraft, possession by demons, and the dead who come back to life.
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Une jeune femme, dont la délicate et elégante tournure, la peau blanche et diaphane, les cheveux blonds, les mouvemens onduleux, toute une tournure impossible à décrire autrement qu'en disant qu'elle était de toutes les créatures la plus gracieuse, lui donnaient l'aspect d'une de ces apparitions amenées par un rêve heureux ... il y avail de la Sylphide en elle.
The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 1
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a faceless apparition
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In front of him stood five ghostly apparitions.
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Roland and Catherine, therefore, were united, spite of their differing faiths; and the White Lady, whose apparition had been infrequent when the house of Avenel seemed verging to extinction, was seen to sport by her haunted well, with a zone of gold around her bosom as broad as the baldrick of an Earl.
The Abbot
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This ghostly apparition is actually a transfiguration of your loved one.
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This morning's horror, the sallow-faced pervert who'd accosted her, all faded at the sight of the glorious bewinged apparition paralleling the bus.
The Metrognome and other Stories
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Then, out of nowhere a bus appeared like an apparition.
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The apparition appeared to have been an attempt to confuse Nato aircraft.
Times, Sunday Times
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Soon other beasties are popping up, and Roger is forced to deal with the house's evil apparitions and monstrous demons.
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Then as if an apparition had appeared, a face showed up on the water's surface.
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The dashboard's fluorescence cast a ghostly apparition on the windscreen, losing me a heartbeat till I realized it was my own nervy face.
THE TARTAN RINGERS
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He goes on to relate many other such stories, mainly involving apparitions on the mission field.
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She gasped, momentarily confused by the apparition that appeared before her.
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With many stigmatics these apparitions were periodical, e.g.,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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There is no agreement about the town he came from, his age at the time of the apparitions, whether he was married or a widower, or whether he and his wife had children or lived in a celibate marriage.
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Sans cesse sollicité pour revêtir à nouveau l'imperméable du célèbre inspecteur, Peter Falk, dont les apparitions au cinéma dans l'intervalle ont, à l'exception de celle dans Der Himmel über Berlin, été plutôt décevantes, finit par accepter avec, à la clé, un traitement revu à la hausse six millions de dollars par épisode et un statut de producteur lui permettant d'avaliser le choix des scénaristes, réalisateurs et acteurs.
Archive 2009-07-12
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¶ Touching these celestiall apparitions, the common doctrine of philosophie is, that they be méere naturall, and therefore of no great admiration.
Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second
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These ghostly floating apparitions ranged from a pristine white - though more often dirtied by lava sand - to the most incredibly deep inky blue.
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On a walk along their favourite beach, his character sees a ghostly apparition and the haunting begins.
Times, Sunday Times
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He was gaping at Joanna as if she were an apparition, one to be warded off with incantations and henbane.
HERE BE DRAGONS
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At this point, you have come to believe that you have a haunted house with bumps, rappings, ghostly footsteps and even apparitions that roam the hallways.
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It is not too much to say that such remnants of doubt have been at the bottom of almost every such visitation, and that the appalling horror which has sometimes been brought about, is to be attributed, even in the cases most in point, and where most suffering has been experienced, more to a kind of anticipative horror, lest the apparition might possibly be real, than to an unwavering belief in its reality.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3
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The assembled civic worthies and their university visitors were confronted by the apparition of the mayor, clad in what appeared to be a rumpled pyjama shirt under his coat.
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Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic.
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Jupiter has had a brilliant yearlong apparition, but sky watchers are running out of time to view it.
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Mass will be celebrated daily at 3.00 p.m. (with anointing of the sick) followed by the Procession of the Blessed Sacrament and finishing with Benediction at the Apparition Chapel.
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These were signs and portents, she realized, visitations and apparitions from a tangled mess of folklore, some unrecognizable and others merely silly.
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He compares these both to the scriptural accounts of Christ's post-Resurrection appearances and to the history of apparitions in the later church.
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Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic.
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'gliff' in the night from the apparition of 'Silkie' -- so he informed me the lady was called locally.
Border Ghost Stories
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On a walk along their favourite beach, his character sees a ghostly apparition and the haunting begins.
Times, Sunday Times
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After this, that same day a year, when he was thirty-one year old and thirteen days, he turned water into wine, and therefore it is called Bethania, said of beth, that is to say an house, and phanes, that is apparition.
The Golden Legend, vol. 1
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The reports concerning the abbey — the dreams, which had forerun her discovery of the private apartments — the singular manner in which she had found the MS. and the apparition, which she now believed she had really seen.
The Romance of the Forest
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The present grotto commemorating Our Lady's apparitions at Lourdes will be moved to another location in the garden.
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These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
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For, following Bruce, led in fact by a string, came an awful apparition -- Juno herself, a pitiable mass of caninity -- looking like the resuscitated corpse of a dog that had been nine days buried, crowded with lumps, and speckled with cuts, going on three legs, and having her head and throat swollen to a size past recognition.
Alec Forbes of Howglen
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Since everything that follows -- from the shrieking brattle of "Two Sails on a Sound" to the enchanted tribal vocal exercises of "Slippi" to the slow-building celebratory scuttle of "Too Soon" -- feels similarly crazed, drug-induced, and apparitional, Here Comes the Indian makes for particularly lucid listening.
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Either the apparitions were divinely inspired or else they were normal earthly phenomena, but in neither event were they paranormal.
GRACE
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In the kitchen I found my servant and a stray village child, both dumbstruck by this apparition.
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As the horse and rider vanished into the mist I braced myself for the next apparition.
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The subjective urgency that Van Gogh's objective studies often projected, as of annunciatory apparitions, now melts the boundary between seer and seen, sight and psyche.
Determined Spirit
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Be this as it may, the old lags could not have been more friendly to this distinctly new Labourish apparition.
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People who study the paranormal believe these apparitions are the wandering spirits of guards and inmates murdered long ago.
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Tomorrow, Wednesday 21st is the 123rd Anniversary of the Apparition, and a bus will leave the Oratory in Newport at 6.00 pm for the evening novena.
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immaterial apparitions
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Throughout history there have been reports of ghosts, apparitions and spiritual visitations, both angelic and demonic.
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The ardour of the pilgrims, an old couple, is attested by their stiff limbs and the man's calloused bare feet as they kneel before the apparition of the Madonna at the door of the shrine.
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Egypt to the Simpkinsville cemetery, and to be transported the entire distance in a twinkling by the apparition of a dreaded woman bearing down upon one is what might be called a jolting experience.
In Simpkinsville : character tales,
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we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us
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Where was the dweller of her daily thoughts, the bright apparition of her unslumbering pillow?
The Scottish Chiefs
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a ghostly apparition at midnight
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Garganus in Apulia, which had been sanctified by the apparition of the archangel Michael, 18 they were accosted by a stranger in the Greek habit, but who soon revealed himself as a rebel, a fugitive, and a mortal foe of the
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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In the case of apparitions, or true ghosts, it's the idea of the human consciousness surviving the death of the body and sticking around and somehow being capable of communicating or interacting with us.
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Two other actors (Robert Lalonde and Patricia Nolin) do double duty as hospital staff and as apparitions in these nightmarish visions.
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Another friend said that he saw an apparition of an elderly man carrying a body and it appeared to be headless and armless.
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She seemed, of a sudden, as she leaned heavily on his arm, a presaging apparition out of the dim future, an adumbration of her own body grown frail and old, looking up to him for help, calling forlornly to him for solace.
Phantom Wires A Novel
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He stood spell-bound, gazing at them the way one would at an apparition suddenly materialising out of the blue.
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This hand seemed a thing apart, self-existent, with no corporeal attachment, and it appeared and disappeared like an apparition as the thumb-pressure wavered on the switch.
CHAPTER IV
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Their daughters, appearing somewhat apparitional, stand behind their parents and watch.
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I was recalled to the present by the apparition of a frightening specter
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The range of subject matter is equally impressive, covering not just ghosts but all manner of paranormal apparitions: werewolves, vampires, accursed demons and the like.
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One morning as they were breakfasting, they glimpsed “an apparition,” as Jane put it, “a buxom girl, very sexy in a tight black satin dress and black satin high-heeled shoes, with long red fingernails, plus a high Pompadour hairdo.”
A Covert Affair
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Some ten per cent of the population claim to have seen a ghost or some other apparition that seems completely invisible to others.
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From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death.
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The cookmaid lay in a little apartment contiguous to the kitchen; and whether disturbed by these horrible tales of apparitions, or titillated by the savoury steams that issued from the punch-bowl, she made a virtue of necessity, or appetite, and dressing herself in the dark, suddenly appeared before them to the no small perturbation of both.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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Later, a couple swam into view, apparitions emerging from the black deeps beyond the porch lights.
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It's something he has never seen before in these waters, but as quickly it appeared, the apparition is gone.
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Lastly, for the errors brought in from false or uncertain history, what is all the legend of fictitious miracles in the lives of the saints; and all the histories of apparitions and ghosts alleged by the doctors of the Roman Church, to make good their doctrines of hell and purgatory, the power of exorcism, and other doctrines which have no warrant, neither in reason nor Scripture; as also all those traditions which they call the unwritten word of
Leviathan
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Nevertheless, allowing for all imagined possibilities, -- granting even the likelihood of some inapprehensible relation between all past and all future conditioned-being, -- the tremendous question remains: What signifies the whole of apparitional existence to the Unconditioned?
The Romance of the Milky Way And Other Studies & Stories
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For if the object be a thing that is so terrible, they are seen to sweat and tremble, and shreek at the apparition.
Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
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Precisely because women were considered more likely to succumb to Satan's temptations, they were thought less likely to be the direct or particular beneficiaries of angelical apparitions.
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Miranda, not her, but a ghostly apparition of what she was, rose up on the roof of the car.
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In a possible scenario, the abduction mystery would be about real otherworldly visitations, beings of a kind perhaps related to apparitions of the Virgin Mary, or fairies, or demons, or other creatures of an elemental, discarnate or excarnate nature.
Experiencing the Next World Now
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Life — exploits the confrontation with thought and feeling for all it's worth, an exploitation that subsequent years and thinkers will take in unimagined and unthinkable ways, in order to make all kinds of cultural profit, yet also to confront the incommensurability of thought itself, the place where our embodied experience of the world becomes the site of an uncanny, traumatic, apparitional encounter.
Introduction
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He it was, the Franklin's kite, led by the highest hand, that went up into the papal thundercloud hanging black over Europe; and the angry fire that broke upon it burned it not, and in roars of boltless thunder the apparition collapsed, and the sun of truth broke through the inky fragments on the nations once again.
Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country
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Whether the source of the spectral apparitions seen by defendant seller are parapsychic or psychogenic, having reported their presence in both a national publication ( "Readers 'Digest") and the local press (in 1977 and 1982, respectively), defendant is estopped to deny their existence and, as a matter of law, the house is haunted.
First Department
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The apparition ran silently across the lobby and disappeared through a window.
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natives were amazed at the apparition of this white stranger
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For those who drove at night a ghostly apparition would sometimes cross their headlight beam, turning towards them its own glaring headlights.
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Over the eighteen years since the first reports emerged in West Waterford of apparitions of the Virgin Mary, many thousands of people have gone there by day and night to pray and reflect on their lives.
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Maigret and the Apparition maigret et le fantôme the 90th episode of the maigret saga
Maigret and the Apparition
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Glancing from the window in the early evening, a splendid apparition met his gaze.
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In his seventeenth-century work Saducismus Triumphatus Joseph Glanvil saw poltergeists, apparitions, and other phenomena as evidence of a spiritual world.
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Modernity and secularization notwithstanding, the association between Marian apparitions and war and political turmoil continued unabated in the twentieth century as well.
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They smiled at his name transiently, but in agreement: the tattler-spout of their set was, a fatal person to encounter, and each deemed the sudden apparition of him in the very early morning along the Carlsruhe road rather magical.
The Amazing Marriage — Complete
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He said in his dream he saw the apparition of his dead wife.
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The golden galleon of romance set all sail for Eldorado; Cromwell was published, with its polemical preface: and the simultaneous apparition of Hernani and the too famous pourpoint of Théophile Gautier showed the opponents of the new spirit, as a contemporary remarked, that the theatre had become the veritable abomination of desolation.
Introduction
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Suddenly, a terrifying apparition appeared in the doorway.
The Sun
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She turned away from the window, suppressing the oh-so-clear memory of the fearful apparition, and walked slowly down the gallery.
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Marius on that barricade after the octogenarian was the vision of the young revolution after the apparition of the old.
Les Miserables
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Oh, and before I forget, this week’s Word of the Week is eidolon, which is an image, a phantom or apparition, a confusing reflection.
May 2008
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What is so remarkable about this new island, apart from its sudden apparition, is that it has since remained intact in what is often a very violent, hostile sea environment," said Guy Estève, a retired local geomorphologist.
Fragile habitat of French mystery island 'risks being trampled underfoot'
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No, it's the fishermen, seamen, coastguards and the like, those trained to scan the surface of the water, who spot these peculiar apparitions.
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An apparition of misty light, the passage suggests currents of wind and water but the composition resists settling into the pictorial vocabulary of landscape.
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Was it an apparition, or was that under the kummerbund a bit of kilt and an end of sporran?
From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War
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I was gratified and somewhat surprised to find the Apparitional One stamping into the kitchen, beaming, and holding out five whole pounds - since it is us, normally speaking, that pay him.
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This explanation would explain why many apparitions appear to work like a pre-recorded message.
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Surprisingly favourable blogpost at the Washington Post
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So, basically, I spent every Saturday for about a year in the NY library researching ghosts, apparitions, synchronicity, paranormal and parapsychology.
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Devotion to Mary was based on shrines inherited from the medieval era and the Counter-Reformation, but was fuelled as well by a remarkable series of apparitions that produced some of the most famous religious sites in the modern world.
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These paintings harbour a menagerie of folk-monsters, a phantasmagoria of apparitions that might be beatific angels or might be ghoulish extraterrestrials.
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At one of these the anomaly was attended by a drop in temperature and an apparitional sighting by one of the investigators.
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In despair, and in a terror which beat down even pride, he glanced his eye over the rolling and rushing crowd; when, right above them, through the wide chasm which had been left in the velaria, he beheld a strange and awful apparition; he beheld, and his craft restored his courage!
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
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A shimmering apparition appears at the dinner table of a dying man.
Times, Sunday Times
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(BEMPh) effects initiated by the presence of a luminous stimulus are responsible for the following categories of processes • the energic-informational genesis of the helicoidal and dextrogyrate DNA structure, • the photolysis of cellular membranes, • the generation of the organic polymers network, • the formation of reserves of molecular compounds (energy / information traps), • the apparition of the membranous black-holes assuring the cells 'nutrition, • the generation of the electric potential of repose and of action and the
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On a walk along their favourite beach, his character sees a ghostly apparition and the haunting begins.
Times, Sunday Times
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It may well be believed, that such an apparition could not be witnessed with gravity, and, accordingly a general titter ran through the room, the whist party still contending about odd tricks and honours, being the only persons insensible to the mirth around them -- "Miss Betty, arrah, Miss Betty," said Nicholas with a sigh that converted the subdued laughter of the guests into a perfect burst of mirth.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 1
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From the earliest times, both traditions have learned caution regarding possible visions or apparitions of Christ that do not clearly manifest the five wounds of His passion and death.
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The entire pier, with a collective gasp, drew back at the apparition.
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She was on the opposite side of the fountain, and stood gazing on him with calmness, and with a kind of benignant curiosity: The garden, the kiosk, the falling waters, recalled the past, which flashed over his mind almost at the moment when he beheld the beautiful apparition.
Tancred Or, The New Crusade
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In the final apparition, the angel appeared holding the Eucharist.
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Manescu had the impression the apparition behind the opaque glass wall was drinking from an absurdly shaped vessel.
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The full-size hyperreal apparition looms above viewers in a frame big enough to climb into.
