36 Verbs to Use for the Word spectre

I never laid my head on my pillow, I suppose, from the fourth to the seventh or eighth year of my lifeso far as memory serves in things so long agowithout an assurance, which realized its own prophecy, of seeing some frightful spectre.

The man who starts from the preconceived opinion that the conception of Right must be a positive one, and then attempts to define it, will fail; for he is trying to grasp a shadow, to pursue a spectre, to search for what does not exist.

In the Erse it is called Taisch; which signifies likewise a spectre or a vision.' Johnson's Works, ix.

" The jingle of a chain was distinctly audible; Mr. Blake was evidently bringing the spectre down in his arms!

He lost no time in getting home, and took no steps to challenge the spectre further.

he cried, "thou dreadful spectre, what art thou?" "My dearest lord," said Hippolita, clasping him in her arms, "what is it you see?"

Even though he might have suffered a qualm at again beholding the white apparition in the moonlight, his determination to dare the spectre was bolstered by the voice and the manner of the command.

Contrast with these descriptions the lines in which Dante has described the gigantic spectre of Nimrod.

Surely it was somewhat illogical to shoot an illusion and intend to dissect a spectre!

In such emergencies it is conceivable that a man who believes, yet keenly realises and feels what disturbs or destroys the belief of others, should dare to put himself in their place; should enter the hospital and suffer the disease which makes such ravages; should descend into the shades and face the spectres.

Shall we think hardly of the man who saw the dawn of our own day, and welcomed it cheerfully and hopefully, even though he fancied the mist-spectres to be elements of the true sunrise, and knew notand who knows?the purposes of Him whose paths are in the great deep, and His ways past finding out?

For two long hours they fought back the grim spectre that stood by the bedside.

A feeling of awe and interest, too intense to be resisted, prompted him to follow the spectre, if spectre it were.

For come Diseases on, and Penury's rage, Labour, and Pain, and Grief, and joyless Age, And Conscience dogging close his bleeding way 640 Cries out, and leads her Spectres to their prey, 'Till Hope-deserted, long in vain his breath Implores the dreadful untried sleep of Death.

Each wolf that dies in the woodland brown Lives a spectre and haunts the town.

In the versions and in the pictorial representations of the legend there soon began to be much variety in the persons who met the spectres.

Thrice Fancy leads the dismal echo round, And paints the spectre gliding o'er the ground.

And before Mathieu's eyes there likewise passed the spectre of Seraphine, with the fierce and pain-fraught face of one who is racked and killed by insatiate desire.

Hogarth personated the spectre, but so unretentive(we are told)was his memory that though the speech consisted only of two lines he was unable to get them by heart, and his facetious associates wrote them on an illuminated lantern that he might read them when he came upon the stage.

Giving him all credit for wishing to be clear, we confess to a sad mystification as to what he calls the 'Polarity of Light,' where a beam is described as 'revolving around poles peculiar to itself' and as producing 'beautiful spectres,' and we want new illumination from him as to his theory of colors.

To keep us busy with troubles of our own, German propaganda and German money in Mexico raised on our southern border a threatening spectre of war.

This was the first word uttered loud enough to reach the strange four-armed, one-headed, but legless spectre.

Supposing anything of a man to live after death, must it not resemble a spectre?

And to think that a little bombardment, followed by a successful attack, seven or eight houses set on fire by the Versailles shells, seven or eight hundred Federals shot, a few women blown to pieces, and a few children killed, would suffice to restore these desolate spectres to life and joy.

But, lo! from under its crushing wheels, up rises the bleeding spectre of Uncle Tom, and all the world turns to look at him!

36 Verbs to Use for the Word  spectre