How To Use Revenant In A Sentence
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But spacers, being spacers, would prefer for their saviour to be a revenant from the past rather than a modern-day phenomenon.
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So a revenant returns only to steal away again with another?
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Though believed defeated, the archon Dyo and the revenant William reappear in Sarajevo, guiding the hand of a terrorist who will plunge Europe into flames.
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It is squarely in the tradition of Japanese ghost stories, where revenants deal out cruel and inexplicable vengeance for obscure reasons.
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On the other hand, vampires and werewolves are allocated an entry, and so are revenants, on the basis of Scandinavian material.
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If being a vampire was a world of cold punctuated by brief moments of warmth at feeding time, being a revenant was a world of ice with no relief.
Crossed
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Revenant: The difference between a gentleman and a "troglodyte" isn't that the former respects women and the latter doesn't.
Guilt-tripping parents into getting plastic surgery for their kids.
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Comedies about revenants are a relatively recent English subgenre.
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She has interpreted some stories in her repertoire in accordance with her Christian faith, notably stories about revenants, evil spirits, and magic.
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In parts of south-eastern and central Europe, the experience also has associations with revenants and members of the living dead such as the vampire.
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At a couple of points he mentions how in Protestant realms the dead were transformed into dangerous, marginal figures, yet he does not pursue this theme to see how it may have related to fear of revenants or nocturnal witch sabbaths.
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For instance, long fingernails, or sometimes no nails at all, are characteristic of vampires, revenants, and other beings of ‘undead’ status.
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revenant shrieks and groans
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Now the revenants have gained fame again in the cult TV programme ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’.
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The principal themes of his fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism.
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a revenant ghost
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In one of them, two shamans argue about who is the strongest, in another, they argue about inflicting evil on another person in the form of revenants as revenge for grievances, and in a third, about killing with poison.
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Due to the circumstances of their possible deaths, arguably, these women are indeed revenants, even though for most of the novel, they are as static as their Ruby neighbors.
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Since the downfall of the Empire he has lived a sort of Bohemian existence in Paris, where his striking resemblance to Louis Napoleon has won for him the nickname of "the ghost" (le revenant).
Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878
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One seems to see him, a languid-limbed "revenant," with heavy-lidded drowsy eyes and voluptuous lips, emerging all swathed and wrapped in costly cerements out of the tomb of some Babylonian king.
Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations
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She also thinks that people who have lived an indecent, ungodly life are prone to experience ghosts and revenants.
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He looked so baffled and afraid that she knew immediately that he was used to dealing with fledglings and revenants.
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Crush two cacodemons and proceed downstairs to face more soldiers and a revenant.
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John - That's basically just a restatement in other words of what Revenant said!
It might be in bad taste... but the Washington Post is talking about it so....
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Michael Burkard's latest book - full of revenants, revisitations, and regrets - is similarly lingering and resonant.
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The scent of blood cloyed as revenants mindlessly cleaned up the matching body.
Kiss of a Demon King
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It may not be too great a flight of imagination to conceive our noble 'revenant' not forgetful of the great troubles of his own day, and anxious to know how often London had been burned down since his time, and how often the plague had carried off its thousands.
Lectures and Essays
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Few aspects of modern life go untouched: labor laws are in effect to prevent slave labor abuse of the undead, for whom the official, politically correct term is a "revenant".
American Zombie (2008): B
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But maybe we can understand Bloom's florin as a fictional revenant if not an historical precedent.
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On the other hand, revenants genuinely accepted as the spirits of the dead also appeared.
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Loved the use of the word revenant, haven't seen it used so perfectly before.
Pretty dumb things
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The principal themes of Holland's fiction writing have been vampires, revenants, and creative anachronism.
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Montmorin knew what was coming, but just then the forward carronade sent a shattering cask of musket balls into the Revenant's belly and belched a pall of smoke above the ship.
Sharpe's Trafalgar
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In Romanian folklore it was thought that a bat, insect or other flying creature that passed over a corpse, could turn it into a revenant (a corpse that returns from the grave).
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He heard the despair in her voice, as if she was willing the revenants of her loved ones to rise from the icy grave and join her in the realm of the living.
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But in "Exit Ghost," Zuckerman feels like a "revenant" while walking the streets of present-day Manhattan, and he's not the only shade around.
The Rake’s Progress Giving Up The Ghost
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The most immediately striking feature of both sets of tales is that all William's revenants and many of those at Byland are not ghosts in the usual sense of that word but ‘walking dead,’ corpses that have literally emerged from their graves.
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Even though the revenant was gone, his last words troubled Sabriel.
SABRIEL
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Finding nothing comparable in older historians, he concluded that such revenants were a feature peculiar to his own times, and commented that he could have cited many more instances if he had wanted to.
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In Romanian folklore it was thought that a bat, insect or other flying creature that passed over a corpse, could turn it into a revenant (a corpse that returns from the grave).
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In William's accounts, the problem at issue is the nature of physical revenants: are they animated by demons, and should they be laid by bodily or spiritual means?
