Spectre Sentence Examples

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  • It is mentioned Sir Walter Scott in " The Lay of the Last Minstrel " " For he was speechless, ghastly, wan Like him of whom the story ran Who spoke the spectre hound in Man."

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  • Friendship and alliance with Catholic Austria and powerful Germany could alone lay this spectre.

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  • Hefele himself, one of the most learned and acute of Cyril's partisans, is compelled to admit that Nestorius accurately held the duality of the two natures and the integrity of each, was equally explicitly opposed to Arianism and Apollinarianism, and was perfectly correct in his assertion that the Godhead can neither be born nor suffer; all that he can allege against him is that "the fear of the communicatio idiomatum pursued him like a spectre."

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  • The barghest was essentially a nocturnal spectre, and its appearance was regarded as a portent of death.

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  • A 1980s 3 piece sectional designed by Jay Spectre is a modern deco style featuring a couch, a chaise and a 3/4 ottoman that all fit together to form a unique sectional.

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  • This piece is offered from Assemblage and is part of Spectre's Studio Collection.

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  • The chromatic rings seen encircling the "spectre of the Brocken" are similarly explained.

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  • A famous example is the Brockengespenst or "spectre of the Brocken."

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  • At his side were his accomplices, men ready for anything, whose only hopes were bound up with his fortunes, such as Morny and Rouher; his paid publicists, such as Romieu the originator of the "red spectre"; his cudgel-bearers, the "Ratapoils" immortalized by Daumier, who terrorized the republicans.

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  • The so-called Spectre Huntsman of the Malay Peninsula is said to be a man who scours the firmament with his dogs, vainly seeking for what he could not find on earth - a buck mouse-deer pregnant with male offspring; but he seems to be a living man; there is no statement that he ever died, nor yet that he is a spirit.

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  • Dante refers to the shadowless spectre of Virgil, and the folklore of many European countries affords examples of the prevalence of the superstition that a man must be as careful of his shadow as of his body.

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  • The disease was inherent in the body politic. Each pope, confronted by the spectre of Ne p otism.

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