Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed: Being a Collection of Entertaining Stories Founded on Fact; and Selected for the Purpose of Eradicating Those Ridiculous Fears, which the Ignorant, the Weak, and the Superstitious, are But Too Apt to Encourage, for Want of Properly Examining Into the Causes of Such Absurd ImpositionsMacdonald and Son, 1814 - 223 pages |
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... surprises you with a hand as cold as clay ; at other times , that same ghostly hand gives three solemn raps , with several particularities , according to the different disposi- tions of the ghost . The chief reason which calls them back ...
... surprises you with a hand as cold as clay ; at other times , that same ghostly hand gives three solemn raps , with several particularities , according to the different disposi- tions of the ghost . The chief reason which calls them back ...
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... surprised them ; but , imagining he was not yet come perfectly to his senses , they forbore farther questions , till they had got him into the tavern , where , having placed him in a chair , they began to ask how he did , and how he ...
... surprised them ; but , imagining he was not yet come perfectly to his senses , they forbore farther questions , till they had got him into the tavern , where , having placed him in a chair , they began to ask how he did , and how he ...
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... surprise , he disco- vered the terrible apparition to be only an un- happy young man belonging to the parish , who had , for some time past , been disordered in his senses , and who had got into the church by some secret means or other ...
... surprise , he disco- vered the terrible apparition to be only an un- happy young man belonging to the parish , who had , for some time past , been disordered in his senses , and who had got into the church by some secret means or other ...
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... surprised at the message ; as he knew the frugality of his sister's way of life ; and suspected that she was enamoured with some fortune - hunter , who might marry her for her fortune , and thereby deprive the family of what he expected ...
... surprised at the message ; as he knew the frugality of his sister's way of life ; and suspected that she was enamoured with some fortune - hunter , who might marry her for her fortune , and thereby deprive the family of what he expected ...
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... surprised at so unex- pected an appearance , had the courage to ask them who they were , and what they wanted . To which they replied , that they were servants at their next- door neighbour's , and , being awakened out of their sleep by ...
... surprised at so unex- pected an appearance , had the courage to ask them who they were , and what they wanted . To which they replied , that they were servants at their next- door neighbour's , and , being awakened out of their sleep by ...
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Page 26 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator...
Page 181 - She turn'd— it stopt !— nought could she see Upon the gloomy plain ; But, as she strove the Sprite to flee, She heard the same again. Now terror seized her quaking frame ; For, where the path was bare. The trotting Ghost kept on the same : She mutter'd many a pray'r.
Page 194 - Behind a wide column, half breathless with fear, She crept to conceal herself there : That instant the moon o'er a dark cloud shone clear, And she saw in the moonlight two ruffians appear, And between them a corpse did they bear.
Page 192 - I'll wager a dinner," the other one cried, " That Mary would venture there now." " Then wager and lose," with a sneer he replied, " I'll warrant she'd fancy a ghost by her side, And faint if she saw a white cow.
Page 26 - Nor think, though men were none, That Heav'n would want spectators, God want praise : Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake nnd when we sleep ; All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 206 - Achtcrmannshohe, a human figure of a monstrous size. A violent gust of wind having almost carried away my hat, I clapped my hand to it by moving my arm towards my head, and the colossal figure did the same.
Page 20 - The remark struck a panic terror into several who were present, insomuch that one or two of -the ladies were going to leave the room ; but a friend of mine taking notice that one of our female companions was...
Page 180 - The dappled herd of grazing deer, That sought the shades by day, Now started from her path with fear, And gave the stranger way. Darker it grew ; and darker fears Came o'er her troubled mind — • When now a short quick step she hears Come patting close behind. She...
Page 23 - I remember last winter there were several young girls of the neighbourhood sitting about the fire with my landlady's daughters, and telling stories of spirits and apparitions.
Page 23 - I took out of my pocket, heard several dreadful stories of ghosts as pale as ashes that had stood at the feet of a bed, or walked over a church-yard by moonlight...