Apparition Sentence Examples

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  • Suddenly, a terrifying apparition appeared.

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  • A ghostly apparition of a woman has been seen near the tracks in the evening.

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  • During the party, we saw a ghostly apparition, roughly the height of Maureen.

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  • In one example, a person enters a dark doorway, turns a corner and there's an apparition immediately approaching the camera.

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  • Walk the decks between two and four o'clock in the morning and there's a good chance you'll see an apparition or two.

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  • Martin's apparition then disappeared, leaving both of them momentarily stunned.

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  • The most popular ghost is Pinky, an apparition that gives off a glowing pink aura.

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  • Around 1928 an apparition of an ancient Egyptian priestess was reported, and a newspaper reward for an overnight stay went unclaimed.

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  • Seeing then that the troops before him could hold their own, Ladmirault continued his preparations for his counterstroke, and Cissey's division had begun to move into its prescribed alignment, facing towards Vionville, when the sudden apparition of a closed mass of Prussian troops detaching itself from the low dust-cloud of a slow-moving infantry column, and forming to the south of Mars-la-Tour, again arrested his attention.

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  • It has been said that Daniel Defoe wrote his fiction of Mrs Veal (A True Relation of the Apparition of Mrs Veal), who came from the other world to recommend the perusal of Drelincourt on Death, for the express purpose of promoting the sale of an English translation of the Consolations; Defoe's contribution is added to the fourth edition of the translation (1706).

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  • Most people who have seen this apparition believe that she was one of the mistreated residents who was likely bound or restrained too tightly by her wrists and ankles during the time the building was used as a geriatric facility.

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  • The apparition was first spotted by security guards on closed circuit television footage during an investigation into who was leaving one of the palace doors open.

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  • Have you ever noticed how most apparition photos have poor lighting?

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  • But I dunno about restored, ' said the apparition; ' blow THAT!

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  • Serious students in Portugal and abroad welcomed the book as an historical work of the first rank, for its evidence of careful research, its able marshalling of facts, its learning and its painful accuracy, while the sculptural simplicity of the style and the correctness of the diction have made it a Portuguese classic. The first volume, however, gave rise to a celebrated controversy, because Herculano had reduced the famous battle of Ourique, which was supposed to have seen the birth of the Portuguese monarchy, to the dimensions of a mere skirmish, and denied the apparition of Christ to King Affonso, a fable first circulated in the 15th century.

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  • As they played back the recorded video, an apparition appeared and floated around in a circle.

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  • When an apparition forms, it's usually extremely faint and blends in well with the background.

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  • This impressive footage displays an apparition taking shape in the lower left corner of the video before fading as it travels across the room.

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  • This video was captured as part of an investigation, and the apparition that hobbles toward the camera and off to the right is obviously partially transparent.

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  • For example, you may need to watch a video a few times before you recognize the faint mist in the shape of an apparition standing in the doorway.

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  • A human shape immediately appears behind a window, or an apparition in a dark room is very clearly defined and unquestioningly material.

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  • Ectoplasm is a word often used to describe a gel-like residue reportedly found at the site of an apparition or paranormal event.

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  • But a very slight relative displacement will cause the apparition of the odd spectra.

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  • In the 8th century an oratory was established there by St Aubert, bishop of Avranches, in obedience to the commands of an apparition of St Michael.

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  • Henry made a vain effort to prevent, or to postpone, the outbreak of hostilities; but urged on by his French ally and his queen, James declared for war, in spite of the counsels of some of his advisers, and (it is said) of the warning of an apparition.

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  • Maunder and Mrs Maunder found that different spots in the same zone differ more than do the means for different zones, while a long-lived spot settles down to give more consistent results than are furnished by spots of one apparition.

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  • However vividly Howie dreamed, or whatever he had; a vision or an apparition, we all know his mind conjured it up.

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  • Which theater is haunted by the apparition of a nun?

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  • They included a shot of the ghostly apparition, which appears to be checking the cellar with a lamp.

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  • Maybe this strange apparition brought some kind of hope.

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  • The first apparition which appears to thee is the image of the master ' .

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  • Reception Corridor area The same apparition of a little boy was seen by Jenny [Manager] in this area.

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  • The third apparition tells him " Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.

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  • But he found a stepmother there; and this apparition on his father's hearth at first rather appalled him.

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  • While sharing the opinion of Tycho as to the origin of such bodies by condensation of nebulous matter from the Milky Way, he attached a mystical signification to the coincidence in time and place of the sidereal apparition with a triple conjunction of Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

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  • In Wales its counterpart was Gwyllgi, "the Dog of Darkness," a frightful apparition of a mastiff with baleful breath and blazing red eyes.

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  • Martin 's apparition then disappeared, leaving both of them momentarily stunned.

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  • The apparition threaded the beads of the rosary through her fingers without moving her lips.

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  • The third apparition tells him Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.

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  • Throughout the history of the lore surrounding the apparition, most people have believed that a sighting of the Black Dog foretold of misfortune, death of a loved one, or the death of the person who saw the creature.

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  • Dog information websites are littered with references with modern day encounters with the apparition.

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  • Admittedly, there are few things in the world of paranormal investigations that compare to seeing a full-bodied apparition.

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  • In a second incident, a tower guard even attempted to stab the apparition only to feint from fear.

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  • In all cases, witnesses recognize the apparition as Anne Boleyn, the famous wife of King Henry VIII.

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  • Some experiencers even report hearing conversations that are later confirmed; in other cases people at remote locations witness seeing an out of body experiencer's apparition.

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  • These stories also suggest that many apparition sightings of people who are still alive could potentially be a result of that person having some form of out of body experience.

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  • Guests and staff recognize Sallie when the see a female apparition dressed in a bandana and long gray skirt.

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  • Guests report seeing his apparition entering his suite through the wall where the door used to be.

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  • If you can recreate the apparition under similar conditions, you can rule out paranormal activity.

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  • Other park rangers and visitors tell tales of the apparition appearing on dark nights always accompanied by cries and groans.

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  • Years later, the artist, now rich and famous, had forgotten all about the horrible apparition and where his missing hand may have gone.

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  • The most common apparition is the ghost of a little girl in a dress who runs into the lobby and disappears.

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  • Five hours later, Kathy first spotted the apparition on the security cameras.

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  • Well-known paranormal researcher Richard Senate viewed the recording and was quickly convinced that the tape reflected an authentic ghostly apparition.

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  • After carefully reviewing the 29 second clip of the apparition, the group believed that they had noticed one frame where a support line could be seen holding up the ghost.

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  • Most importantly, after investigations were conducted by a variety of paranormal groups using many different methods, no one was able to come up with an acceptable explanation for the apparition that appeared in this video.

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  • A few of the phenomena that visitors report here include an apparition of a man in an Air Force uniform and sounds of banging and footsteps.

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  • Reported hauntings at this airfield include phantom Lancaster bombers taking off into the night sky, apparitions of crew walking the runway, Morse code coming from the control tower and an apparition of an officer.

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  • Her headless apparition is often seen throughout the hallways of the Tower.

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  • Even if a video captures something as simple as an object moving on its own or an apparition appearing out of thin air, that video represents solid proof that something very real and physical took place.

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  • This type of ghost is a lot more prevalent than a full body apparition due to the additional energy needed to appear in full form.

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  • According to Auerbach, an EVP is something that occurs when an apparition, which is pure consciousness without vocal chords, psychokinetically affects an electronic medium, leaving an audio imprint on said medium.

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  • We may use psychics/mediums as well as the witnesses themselves as sensors, and as possible communicators should there be an apparition likely.

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  • Mademoiselle Bourienne was the first to recover herself after this apparition and began speaking about the prince's indisposition.

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  • He told Cynthia about Effie's apparition, then added, "I'm sure it was poor Edith Shipton strolling around the place."

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  • Those who in the same way identify Rabelais with Panurge can never explain the education scheme, the solemn apparition of Gargantua among the farcical and fantastic variations on Panurge's wedding, and many other passages; while, on the other hand, those who insist on a definite propaganda of any kind must justify themselves by their own power of seeing things invisible to plain men.

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  • Other ancient writers, however, speak of his visit to the underworld; according to Plato, the infernal gods only " presented an apparition" of Eurydice to him.

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  • The worship of Pan was introduced after the Persian wars, in consequence of an apparition seen by Pheidippides, the Athenian courier, in the mountains of Arcadia.

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  • Occasionally the death-warning is in the form of an apparition of some other person; it may also take the form of a temporary feeling of intense depression or other massive sensation.

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  • In 1706 appeared the True Relation of the Apparition of one Mrs Veal, long supposed to have been written for a bookseller to help off an unsaleable translation of Drelincourt, On Death, but considerable doubt has been cast upon this by William Lee.

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  • The announcement of the apparition of the Virgin to an Indian near Mexico City provided a place of pilgrimage and a patroness in Our Lady of Guadalupe; and the friars ingeniously used the hieroglyphic writing for instruction in Christian doctrine, and taught the natives trades, for which they showed much aptitude.

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  • From an evidential point of view the apparition is the most valuable class of death-warning, inasmuch as recognition is more difficult in the case of an auditory hallucination, even where it takes the form of spoken words; moreover, auditory hallucinations coinciding with deaths may be mere knocks, ringing of bells, &c.; tactile hallucinations are still more difficult of recognition; and the hallucinations of smell which are sometimes found as death-warnings rarely have anything to associate them specially with the dead person.

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