I remembered the dread Specter of the Place.

The country folk said there were two of them, one the semblance of a woman; the other the specter of a man.

[Lat.]; refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis^, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma^; phantasm, phantasma^, phantom; vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus [Lat.]

&c (luminary) 423; specter of the Brocken; magic mirror; magic lantern &c (show) 448; mirror lens &c (instrument) 445.

Their offensiveness went no further than this, however, and in a moment Markham made out the bulk of a roulette in the shadows of the wood, the shaggy specter of a horse, a camp-fire, and a party of caravaners.

" CHAPTER XXXI THE SPECTER IN THE HOUSE

It stood before them a pillar of fire, prophetic, it might be repeated, of a vast and cleansing catastrophe soon to come to that state and this nation; a catastrophe which alone could lay the specter in our nation's house.

She could hear the short, hard breathing of the man who stood near her, grimed, blistered, disfigured, in his effort to bring away into the light for a time at least this specter, so long set apart from all the usual ways of life.

Mary Spears (A); 15Nov57; R202917. SPECTER, E., joint author.

SEE Baird, George M. P. SPECTER, EDWARD, joint author.

Cheer for dear old Lady, by George M. P. Baird and E. Specter. (In Songs of the University of Pittsburgh) © 5Sep29; A12703.

Jolly Pitt fellows, by G. M. P. Baird and E. Specter.

Pittsburgh alumni song, by G. M, P. Baird and Edward Specter.

There's a big dead tree in front of it, so you can't miss it, even in the night, for the bark has been peeled off it by lightning and the wind, so that it stands out like a white specter in the darkness.

No man has ever seen a more ghastly specter than I have seen of death in life.

Dear Mr. SPECTER, I am the next thing to a Lady's Woman, and am under both my Lady and her Woman.

I am so used by them both, that I should be very glad to see them in the SPECTER.

Now, good Mr. SPECTER, I desire you would in the Behalf of all who serve froward Ladies, give out in your Paper, that nothing can be done without allowing Time for it, and that one cannot be back again with what one was sent for, if one is called back before one can go a Step for that they want.

"If," thought he, "this mysterious personage of yesterday, this specter which had risen from the bowels of the earth, knew all, and had seen all, would they, I should like to know, let me stand about like this?

He did not feel as if he were himself, but another being before whom stood another Sir Marmaduke de Chavasse, on whom hea specter, a ghoul, a dream figurewas about to pass judgment.

Sir Marmaduke would have interrupted the old woman's talk ere this, but his limbs were now completely paralyzed: he might have been made of stone, so rigid did he feel himself to be: a marble image, or else a specter, a shadow-figure that existed yet could not move.

No wonder that she sighed for ghouls and for shadowy monsters, well-nigh longing for a sight of distorted faces, of ugly deformed bodies, and loathsome shapes far less hideous than that specter of an inhuman homicide which followed her along this dark road as she ranran onran towards the home where dwelt the living monster of evil, the man who had done the deed, which she had helped to accomplish.

But underneath it all I could not deny that there was a specter, whose aimless movements kept me from stagnating.

I have found a counterpart; but, specter, you were born of the union.

The incident served to make us more careful, and at the narrowest place in the path we used the utmost caution, for the rocks below rose up like dragon's teeth, ready to impale us if we should make a false stepand that white drawn face haunted us like a specter.