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1. The spectre of death already lingers in the rooms of the house, yet neurotic aunt Despina moves around with a liveliness I have never seen on her before
2. The spectre of ghostly stories
3. My suggestion is get a cat if it happens again, but believe me the sight of that poor spectre after Fliss appeared on the scene with barred teeth and a terrible growling hissing noise made me think you've have seen the last of that particular program
4. Nonetheless the prospect of dying was there, looming before her in its immediate raw presence, like the spectre that had always lay hidden in the shadows ready to strike when she was most vulnerable
5. Jack’s flippancy couldn’t be stopped by the spectre of Melanie
6. Chuckles was familiar with the house and headed up the stairs, gliding up the carpeted treads like a silent spectre
7. „It seems that the Rowlandson Bank cannot erase the spectre of their past as it was announced yesterday by their new CEO, Jack Mayes, that a benefit night will be held honouring their former chairman
8. ‗The spectre of forced cannibalism turns this issue into something considerably more
9. spectre of blue and white lights, the other red and white
10. publishers in England and Wales have to contend with in the spectre of libel
11. ’ The mood was sombre as the spectre of a return to real life drew closer
12. Holding hands they ran back to the car like adolescents, impatient to get home and start their new life without the spectre of an angry and vindictive wife
13. horrid spectre of the Ministry of Supply‘s new operation was in his face full-force
14. spectre of thirst? She would be finding out soon enough
15. I think I could manage permanently, but that leaves the spectre of my
16. The spectre watched as its physical remains were prodded and examined by the pathologist; and it witnessed its once living form bagged and carried to the waiting coroner's ambu-lance
17. The spectre heard the wailful cry of the woman as she made her identity; and it watched the sourly expression on the man as a few slurred words were muttered
18. fireplace, like a mocking spectre
19. He bore the seed of shadow in his soul, and it was growing fast, sending out a tentative hypocotyl to quest for light and to turn it to shade – indeed to make Ambrosius himself a shade, a spectre, a ghost
20. Perhaps she had freed that tortured spectre from its bondage and misery of being trapped between the two dimensions
21. the weapons at the spectre in front of them; they were vaporised by the shield
22. He had refrained from falling into the obvious trap—a BJP leader could easily have played victim and used the occasion to raise the familiar spectre of ‘Islamic terrorism’ even without waiting for the investigation into the serial blasts to begin (much later, the Ranchi module of the Indian Mujahideen would emerge a prime suspect)
23. It was almost as if the spectre of looming defeat had pushed Rahul into a self-imposed cocoon of aloofness where he trusted very few people
24. with the spectre of death
25. I stared at Nancy’s reflection; she looked like a spectre of death warmed over
26. Where else would the smell of body odour and stale urine compete with the air of desperation? Where else did the spectre of unemployment and distrust hang so heavily on the shoulders of this forgotten city? Chesford in the midst of the sprawling West Midlands festered like a boil on the arm of a concrete giant, like a disease that infected its citizens with its corruption and depression
27. e dark spectre raised his arm in the air, thrusting the pitchfork
28. Obviously the instant pleasure was a stronger influence than the spectre of some
29. All covered with dust, white as a spectre, tall as a spectre!"
30. Perhaps, to observe whether he had any spectre on his conscience
31. The sweet scents of the summer night rose all around him, and rose, as the rain falls, impartially, on the dusty, ragged, and toil-worn group at the fountain not far away; to whom the mender of roads, with the aid of the blue cap without which he was nothing, still enlarged upon his man like a spectre, as long as they could bear it
32. She was unable, however, to prevent him from being seen on one occasion, as he sallied forth at daybreak, by Lothario, who, not knowing who he was, at first took him for a spectre; but, as soon as he saw him hasten away, muffling his face with his cloak and concealing himself carefully and cautiously, he rejected this foolish idea, and adopted another, which would have been the ruin of all had not Camilla found a remedy
33. And I the apparition, I the spectre
34. The spectre still
35. spectre, when Jemima entered in the morning; especially as her eyes darted out
36. It was a strange way of killing! not by inches, but by fractions and hairbreadths, to beguile me with the spectre of a hope, through eighteen years!"
37. So unchanging was the dull old house, the yellow light in the darkened room, the faded spectre in the chair by the dressing-table glass, that I felt as if the stopping of the clocks had stopped Time in that mysterious place, and, while I and everything else outside it grew older, it stood still
38. But, when we sat by her flickering fire at night, she was most weird; for then, keeping Estella's hand drawn through her arm and clutched in her own hand, she extorted from her, by dint of referring back to what Estella had told her in her regular letters, the names and conditions of the men whom she had fascinated; and as Miss Havisham dwelt upon this roll, with the intensity of a mind mortally hurt and diseased, she sat with her other hand on her crutch stick, and her chin on that, and her wan bright eyes glaring at me, a very spectre
39. It is the ghost, the king, a king and no king, and the player is Shakespeare who has studied Hamlet all the years of his life which were not vanity in order to play the part of the spectre
40. "Listen, Hermine; I consider myself as brave as most men, but when I drew from my breast the little key of the staircase, which I had found in my coat—that little key we both used to cherish so much, which you wished to have fastened to a golden ring—when I opened the door, and saw the pale moon shedding a long stream of white light on the spiral staircase like a spectre, I leaned against the wall, and nearly shrieked
41. " Valentine poured the orangeade into a glass and gave it to her grandmother with a certain degree of dread, for it was the same glass she fancied that had been touched by the spectre
42. moment; she appeared like a Pythoness evoking a spectre, as she recalled to his mind the remembrance of the fearful death of this man, to the news of which all Europe had listened with horror
43. In vain! His spectre stalks me
44. Spectre against spectre!" he murmured in a low voice, as he concluded his sentence
45. The spectre of Valentine rising before the poisoner would have alarmed her less
46. It may be, that his pathway through life was haunted thus, by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts
47. "I am the spectre of a wretch you buried in the dungeons of the Chateau d'If
48. God gave that spectre the form of the Count of Monte Cristo when he at length issued from his tomb, enriched him with gold and diamonds, and led him to you!"
49. But to die? For the first time in his life, Danglars contemplated death with a mixture of dread and desire; the time had come when the implacable spectre, which exists in the mind of every human creature, arrested his attention and called out with every pulsation of his heart, "Thou shalt die!"
50. That empty boat, coming out to meet him mysteriously, as if rowed by an invisible spectre, exercised the fascination of some sign, of some warning, seemed to answer in a startling and enigmatic way the persistent thought of a treasure and of a man's fate