spectre

A real unrest has taken possession of me, I shall not be able to calm the turbulent spectres until I am with you who are dear to me.

All his sorrows, all his sufferings, with their train of gloomy spectres, fled from his cell when the angel of death seemed about to enter.

For a more academic study of ghosts in England read Shane McCorristine's recent book, "Spectres of the Self" .

Both are multiethnic states haunted by the twin spectres of racial tension and a separatist periphery.

In her novel the simple act of hiring a governess raises the spectres of murder, disguise, and adultery.

Many vice-chancellors today are pursued by far more vengeful spectres of empty campuses, deserted laboratories, failed institutions.

She took a good look, and heard the beasts walking on the grass, and she distinctly saw spectres moving in the trees.

From suffering these spectres pass to crime; fatal affiliation, dizzy creation, logic of darkness.

I believe these magical devices called Ether Traps should protect me if only I can trick the spectres into them.

Two spectres conjured up the buried past.

Nor are the more recent spectres of the evil empire laid to rest.

Shade Beasts are black hounds with bared skulls. They are ethereal , but are not as powerful as Spectres or Wights.

If that comparison raises spectres, so it should.

In many ways, they are akin to the Council Spectres.

I sensed the wretched spectres of the drowned staring across from some distant shore,

the spectres of want, hunger and disease that hang over the world