Do we say specter or spectre

specter 65 occurrences

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.

spectre 338 occurrences

A haggard spectre from the crew Crawls forth, and thus asserts his due: 'Tis I who taint the sweetest joy, And in the shape of love destroy: My shanks, sunk eyes, and noseless face, Prove my pretension to the place.

It uses them in fact as it uses irreconcilable France, namely, for the purpose of terrorisation, since it has discovered that the spectre of socialism is as effective to keep the middle classes loyal as the spectre of French revenge is to keep the Southern States loyal.

It uses them in fact as it uses irreconcilable France, namely, for the purpose of terrorisation, since it has discovered that the spectre of socialism is as effective to keep the middle classes loyal as the spectre of French revenge is to keep the Southern States loyal.

If so, it had yet another spectre ready to its hand for the purposethe spectre of Russia.

If so, it had yet another spectre ready to its hand for the purposethe spectre of Russia.

She recollected that horrible story of the Ghaist of Manse and of the spectre of Bridgend.

The Green Lady is Glencardine's favourite spectre, isn't sheperfectly harmless, I mean?" "Ay, miss.

It is practically an unseen spectre who has the rather unusual gift of speech.

"An iron spindle of a woolen wheel, being taken very strangely out of an house at Salem Village, was used by a spectre as an instrument of torture to a sufferer, not being discernible to the standers by until it was by the said sufferer snatched out of the spectre's hand, and then it did immediately appear to the persons present to be really the same iron spindle.

"An iron spindle of a woolen wheel, being taken very strangely out of an house at Salem Village, was used by a spectre as an instrument of torture to a sufferer, not being discernible to the standers by until it was by the said sufferer snatched out of the spectre's hand, and then it did immediately appear to the persons present to be really the same iron spindle.

"A young woman that was afflicted at a fearful rate had a spectre appear to her with a white sheet wrapped about it, not visible to the standers by, until this sufferer (violently striving in her fit) snatched at, took hold and tore off the corner of that sheet.

Her father, being by her, endeavored to lay hold of it with her, that she might retain what she had gotten; but at the passing away of the spectre, he had such a violent twitch of his hand as it would have been torn off.

The Papal Mission had scarcely passed out of recollection, and everything in Florence was happy and prosperoussunshine is always brightest before eclipsewhen the spectre of tragedy again cast its dark shadow over the path of the Grand Duke and Grand Duchess.

The young ladies here, tho' well versed and delighting in various branches of litterature, cannot overcome that strong national propensity to tales and romances wherein the terrific and supernatural abounds; in all their romances accordingly this taste prevails strongly; nay, even in some of the romances, where the scene is laid in later times, there is some such anachronism as the story of a spectre.

She came nearer and nearer, a graceful spectre in the dazzling morning.

Then the awe of divine vengeance deepened these shadows of the soul till he became moody and melancholy, walking hither and thither without an object, and in secluded places, looking fearfully around him as if he expected every moment the spectre visitor of the morning to appear before him.

Still the odious spectre of his rival would cross his memory at times and cause him agonies.

Je ne voudrais pas, certe, Avoir été colosse, avoir été héros, Madame, avoir empli de morts des tombereaux, Pour que, sous ma farouche et fière bourguignotte, Moi, prince et spectre, un rat paisible me grignote!

Spectre aux yeux fulgurants, Es-tu Satan?

Qu'es-tu, spectre?

Caïn dans la Bible Sont à peine aussi noirs qu'en son Escurial Ce royal spectre, fils du spectre impérial.

Caïn dans la Bible Sont à peine aussi noirs qu'en son Escurial Ce royal spectre, fils du spectre impérial.

Toujours entre ses dents un cadavre saignait; Ce spectre noircissait le firmament sublime.

Au fond était couchée une forme terrible; Une femme immobile et renversée, ayant Les pieds nus, le regard obscur, l'air effrayant; Un cadavre;autrefois, mère joyeuse et forte; Le spectre échevelé de la misère morte; Ce qui reste du pauvre après un long combat.

, rien n'a de contour ni d'âge; Et le nuage est spectre, et le spectre est nuage.

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