771 examples of apparition in sentences

The king enters into no conversation with the apparition; but unable any longer to support his agitation, drops lifeless on the ground.

The queen wished to find out whether this charming apparition would cause the king to forget her for a time, and she ordered me to be in the garden, and so arrange my rambles that I could, without being observed, notice what happened when the king should meet Liridi.

I was near by, behind some shrubbery, and it was plain enough to me that he was dazzled by this lovely apparition.

The apparition only leaves him at his own door.

The old woman covered her eyes with her hands, and when she uncovered them the apparition had vanished.

" While Mershone stood bewildered by this unexpected apparition the detective entered the room, closed the door carefully, and putting his back to it bowed politely to Madame Cerise.

But Maya's son suddenly covered the house, the apparition disappeared, and it seemed to the Radiant Apollo that with it disappeared the stars, that the moon became black, and the whole world was covered with the darkness of Chimera.

Defoe's Apparition of Mrs. Veal, Memoirs of a Cavalier, and Journal of the Plague Year are such mixtures of fact, fiction, and credulity that they defy classification; while other so-called "novels," like Captain Singleton, Moll Flanders, and Roxana, are but, little better than picaresque stories, with a deal of unnatural moralizing and repentance added for puritanical effect.

Had the apparition of Margaret herself risen suddenly before me, I could not have been more astounded.

Never did a mother bathe the eyes of her son with tears of such exquisite joy, when he came home after news of his death in battle, as the Saracen king beheld this sudden apparition with Così vôto nel mezo, the concede Fresca stanza fra l'ombre più nascose: E la foglie coi rami in modo è mista, Che 'l Sol non v' entra, non che minor vista.

Orlando had just been brought there by a similar device, that of the apparition of a knight carrying off Angelica; for the supposed Bradamante was equally a deception, and the giant no other than the magician himself.

" At the noble confidence thus displayed, at the sudden apparition of so much lofty and virtuous beauty, the king's countenance was confused, and its angry expression abated.

Says the explorer: "I was not surprised that the Arabs had been amazed and terrified at this apparition.

Katherine and Oh-Pshaw sat petrified at the apparition.

"Did I scare you, girls?" asked a deep, strong voice, and the apparition looked gravely from one to the other.

Only the head and shoulders of the apparition were visible beside the arms, the rest being concealed in the depths underneath the tent, but the breadth of those shoulders indicated clearly what might be expected in the way of a body.

After a full moment's scrutiny the dark eyes dropped, and the apparition, using her arms as levers, raised herself to the level of the floor and stood up.

Or was his case rather a manifestation of larvated heredity, which would bring anew proof to the support of his theory of the germ plasm, or was it simply a singular case of hereditary resemblance, the sudden apparition of some unknown ancestor at the very decline of life?

Another good Andrea is No. 93a soft and misty apparition of Christ to the Magdalen.

An apparition of the High Priest Zacharias, who was slain between the porch and the altar, was seen in the sanctuary.

Katherine clung to Bobby, trembling, startled beyond speech by the apparition.

"] CHAPTER XII For some time Mr. Wilks stood gazing at this unexpected apparition and trying to collect his scattered senses.

Soon after the publication of "The Dumb Projector" Defoe also made a second contribution to the now considerable Duncan Campbell literature under the title of "The Friendly Daemon: or, the Generous Apparition.

An Account of a most surprizing Apparition; sent from Launceston in Cornwall.

The travellers on the road look with wide eyes at the grim apparition, and flee.

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