| 单词 | wraith |
| 例句 | Then he climbed the steps, silent as a wraith. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She was proud of how calm she’d managed to make herself, standing there without even a tremble, waiting for some unfathomable wraith to come and deal with her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A wraith struck her with its death-touched blade and the poison caused her heart to go cold. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z They gathered on the hillside, and yet always there were wraiths and ghost-shapes among them, and other shapes that ran and stabbed from behind with spear or knife and vanished again. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Maria looked like a wraith in her black dress. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The wraith’s head plunges to the ground, and I grimace as an unearthly scream echoes in the hall. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z All night long, men moved through the darkness outside their tents like tongueless wraiths with cigarettes. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Strange and wonderful I thought it that the designs of Mordor should be overthrown by such wraiths of fear and darkness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “He was studying in Italy when he discovered the others there. They were much more civilized and educated than the wraiths of the London sewers.” Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z “Scholars want to close their eyes to the truth. Ghuls, wraiths, wights, jinn—they’re just stories. Tribal myths. Campfire tales. Such arrogance.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell me you believe in myths of jinn and efrits and wraiths that kidnap children in the night?” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z She appears out of the mist silently as a wraith, and despite myself, I jump. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Like the wraith, Hades was dressed in the habit of a Franciscan monk, which Nico found vaguely disturbing. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He dragged a hand across the floor before the darkness, and greenish lights sprung up from where his fingers passed before being sucked into the void like wraiths on the wind. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z For a brief second, every horror came back to her, and she truly was a wraith, a ghost taking flight from a body that had given her only pain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Most looked like Lares from Camp Jupiter - transparent purple wraiths in tunics and sandals. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Charles, beside me, stood out sharp and almost hyper-realistic with his ruddy cheeks and labored breaths but further down, Henry had become a wraith, his large form light and strangely insubstantial in the mist. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A dagger I fling at the wraith’s chest goes right through him, falling to the floor with a clatter. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Yet Ged was sure of its track as if he followed a beast's track over snow, instead of a wraith fleeing over water. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She saw a world of gray, of pale grays and dark grays and blacks, where fog drifts wandered like wraiths. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Izzi and I return to our work, each of us silent, our heads filled with thoughts of ghuls and wraiths and smokeless fire. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The assault slows as the last wraith circles us. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The ship had come and his father had appeared like a wraith on the boardwalks and it was only dumb luck that allowed Nailer to avoid the man. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Kids who are wraiths of their former selves. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z It was late summer, when tornadoes ride up and down the state every night like wraiths, and sometimes attack the towns looking for hobbits, who are really just kids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z They haunt the windows of derelict buildings, appearing like wraiths, disappearing as quickly. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The wraith vanishes, the smoke dissipates, and the barracks go still, as if the last fifteen minutes never happened. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z But, if faith Is more than just a wraith And is in real good faith Then let us both have faith And hold me tight. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds later she was in the air, in the thick of the fog, safe, and then a great goose shape glided out of the wraiths of gray to her side. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind me, Helene shouts for aid as the other two wraiths press the attack. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In the curved hallway mirror I flit past, a red shape at the edge of my own field of vision, a wraith of red smoke. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They emerged from the storm like a troop of wraiths, big men on small horses, made even bigger by the bulky furs they wore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At the far end stood an altar, where the fiery wraith knelt in prayer, but Nico was more interested in the room itself. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Drink, says Volkheimers mouth as he holds his canteen to Bernd’s lips, and shadows lunge across the broken ceiling like a circle of wraiths preparing to feast. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Masks can prowl through darkness like this as easily as if they are part wraith. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z In the dream they were only shadows, grey wraiths on horses made of mist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z As he approached the fiery grey apparition, he was fairly sure it was a garden-variety wraith - a lost soul who had died in pain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z ‘Very odd,’ said Frodo, tightening his belt, ‘considering that there is actually a good deal less of me. I hope the thinning process will not go on indefinitely, or I shall become a wraith.’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “Almost there,” she called encouragingly, but in the light she discovered that the wraiths had gone, and she was alone. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z This haunted house, with its thin wreath of wraiths and his mothers among them. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z And there was no witch, no wraith blade, no evil corporate brain-thingy that had caused the change in him. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z It was more like dusk than daylight, and wraiths and streamers of the fog rose dismally from puddles in the road, or clung like forlorn lovers to the anbaric cables overhead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z There, detaching from the kitchen door like a wraith, stands the Commandant. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Like a wraith of oily smoke Shadow completed a clever double maneuver. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Martial squads patrol the streets in force, but I avoid them easily in my black dress, blending into the night like a wraith. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Through a blur of tears, she watched him go, stealing like a wraith in the night towards the river that had brought him. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A dark-eyed wraith with the mouth of a lamprey fastens herself to his face. In Mark Haddon’s “The Porpoise,” Storytelling Is an Instrument of Violence and Solace 2019-06-13T04:00:00Z At one point, Naomi’s ghostly presence is felt in the land of the living, where a character says to the wraith, “There’s no justice. Only grace.” Natashia Deón may be the hardest-working debut novelist in Los Angeles 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z Said the cop, “I would bet my last dime, That a ghoul has committed this crime. But the chance of arrest Is unlikely at best. I’m afraid it’s a wraith against time.” Style Invitational Week 1244: Primed for creative Amazon product reviews 2017-09-07T04:00:00Z Not a drifter, not a teen-ager, not a wraith from social services skulking into the woods to shoot up. Creeping Through My Home Town (for Research!) 2018-11-26T05:00:00Z Whenever Goonew, a fellow Maryland rapper, rhymes this way, he floats outside of time like a wraith. Perspective | Teen rappers Xanman and YungManny master the art of getting ahead of yourself 2019-07-29T04:00:00Z In one late scene, as he thrums his guitar to one of the last songs Williams wrote, “Your Cheatin’ Heart,” Hiddleston looks transparent as a wraith—he’s a man already as good as dead. Review: 3 Not-Really-Biopics Reimagine the Lives of Chet Baker, Miles Davis and Hank Williams 2016-03-25T04:00:00Z No supernatural being makes a scarier noise than the Irish banshee, a howling wraith whose wails foretell death. Spare Times for Children for Oct. 30-Nov. 5 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z But where did he get that bewitching loop of a female vocal melody for the chorus of "Recollections of the wraith"? Album of the year: "Black Up" by Seattle's Shabazz Palaces 2011-06-24T15:54:07Z The sole survivor of the biblical city of Sodom, the white-haired wraith recalls a place of lush beauty, sexual license and flowing wine. Sodome, My Love | Theatre review 2010-03-23T23:40:00Z The narrator of Nick Tosches’s novel is a writer named Nick Tosches, “a toothless wraith of a man,” “closer now in years to death than to youth.” ‘Me Before You,’ by Jojo Moyes, and More 2012-12-26T20:50:12Z The trunks and lifeless limbs remained, lacy lichens making the trees look like gossamer-draped wraiths from a distance, up close like bones. I hiked the Colorado Trail for nearly 500 miles. I was awed by the mountains the whole way. 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He named it, "Recollections of the wraith," after the woman with the ghostly voice. Album of the year: "Black Up" by Seattle's Shabazz Palaces 2011-06-24T15:54:07Z Please understand, I’m not a wraith in sackcloth among the tinseled brides of fortune. In Italy, among the literary A-list, I find my own siren song 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z A wraith keeps Talion suspended from death and also grants him extraordinary power. Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, an Action-Adventure Game 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Of course, the lake that the cabin is set on was considered haunted by the local American Indians, and before long the villagers are being turned into bloodthirsty, ax- and chainsaw-waving wraiths. Video Game Review: Remedy Entertainment?s Alan Wake for Xbox 360 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z The parallels are comically human: the small but pugilistic cactus, the cheerfully plump one, the tall but diffident wraith. Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z The tales boil down to the problem of balancing empathy with self-assertion—of both practicing kindness and expressing your own needs, and all while the people around you are behaving like wraiths or aliens. The Chills and Moods of Yukiko Motoya’s Quietly Radical Stories 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z A device like a ship's intercom receives messages from this realm of the unreal – surely, in surrealist terms, the realm of dreams – while a somnambulating psychoanalyst, a Freud-like wraith, also wafts along. Max Ernst's Piet? opens our minds to the psychology of religious art 2011-01-25T17:15:22Z Yet this pale wraith's signature mood is exquisite melancholy and the evening's apogee is set-closer Strange Weather, a carnal, jazz-inflected lament delivered from the death throes of a love that was always doomed to fail. Keren Ann ? review 2011-04-10T21:15:00Z Mariinsky Ballet Anna Karenina We begin at the end: Anna is a lifeless wraith, in a scarlet dress, on a catafalque. Anna Karenina ? review 2011-08-13T23:05:30Z No such strategies can keep the Lyceum’s own pervasive Mina, the vengeful wraith of a murdered girl who haunts the theater, from infiltrating Bram’s thoughts. How Did Bram Stoker Dream Up ‘Dracula’? A Novel Offers Hints 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z She writes that the recent swarm of “hauntings, haints and wraiths” might be read as a representation of traumatic memory, of “the past clamoring for redress.” Are Vampires Cancelled? 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z Though the president is not explicitly portrayed in this chapter, his bloated specter looms large over the season, as does the ghost of Hillary Clinton along with the noxious wraith known as Jill Stein. "American Horror Story: Cult" is FX's way of saying, "Tag, America — you're 'It'!" 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z The roof over one burial vault is composed of tiny, shriveled souls, like a coral reef of wraiths. ‘Lincoln in the Bardo’ arises from a tragic footnote in American history 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Perhaps as repentance, he spent his “Station to Station” tour in 1976 performing as an Aryan wraith he called the Thin White Duke. How David Bowie Challenged MTV on Race 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Pushing lines of taste, her inventions can suggest organs ripped from bodies, mysterious deep-sea creatures or sci-fi wraiths. For Mire Lee, Rising Art Star, It All Comes Down to Guts 2023-06-23T04:00:00Z Her first two albums — “The Grime and the Glow” and “Apokalypsis,” on Pendu Sound — put her forth as a sepulchral wraith. New Music: Albums From Neko Case, Ariana Grande, Gorguts and Chelsea Wolfe 2013-09-02T21:24:22Z She is periodically visited by the inky, anxious wraith of her dead mother, and she incorporates ghosts into a novel she’s writing. ‘Crimson Peak,’ a Guillermo del Toro Gothic Romance in High Bloody Style 2015-10-15T04:00:00Z "She is terribly thin, almost a wraith, and should be gowned more becomingly." Karen Carpenter's tragic story 2010-10-23T23:03:00Z Given Trump’s hysterical fear of being touched, it seems likely that he is also a hologram or perhaps some type of wraith. Donald Trump, supervillain? Here are 8 evil comic book presidents who resemble the GOP front-runner 2016-04-03T04:00:00Z There were no cockamamie showpieces or garments suitable only for a teenage wraith. Alexandre Mattiussi, the Designer of the Label Ami, Creates Buzz During Paris Men’s Fashion Week 2014-02-19T22:13:39Z Often Ms. Harvey casts herself as a soldier or an observer, a wraith hovering above battlefields. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-02-14T23:38:13Z A “wraith” or “fetch” is “technically the spirit of someone who is still alive.” Michael Dirda: Ghosts and ghouls to put a chill in your Christmas reading 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z And like the best poets, they write at the junction of rapture and rupture — right where wraiths like to chill out. Books of The Times: The Sting of Salt Air, Old Loves and Honey Bees 2010-10-18T22:29:00Z Perhaps it solved the vexing problem of models who arrive late for shows, but the punctual ones aren’t going to be replaced by wraiths of mist filled with light any time soon. Watch Ralph Lauren Turn Mist into Models 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z In the muted, artfully murky images of cinematographer Tom Stern, Hoover is truly a man in the shadows, a wraith, the G-man as ghost. Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar: Yanking the FBI Chief Out of the Closet 2011-11-08T16:35:25Z When all of us are trailed by inescapable terabytes of data, we can almost envy Giacometti’s slender bronze wraiths: stripped to the bone but still human, stripped of their names but still free. Giacometti: Beguiled by Thin Men and Women 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Individuals were redefined as digital wraiths, whose data could be loaded on to a disc and disgorged from a machine as flickery holograms. The return of Star Wars: an evil empire in Jedi clothing? 2015-11-22T05:00:00Z I tried to stay in the middle, as there seemed enough shadow in the vaults to hide a wraith or two waiting to clutch a laggard in its cold embrace. A Gothic Tour of Italy 2011-10-28T18:55:00Z The artist’s eye, like a wraith’s, seems to hover in midair. Review | In the galleries: A former pillar of the fashion world crafts compelling art 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z The means by which Flanagan’s series depicts trauma as a wraith that never leaves the afflicted offers a dark, seductive comfort somehow. Smart Watch: This week’s TV heroines who nevertheless persist 2018-10-06T04:00:00Z Or maybe Alan is going nuts and just thinks the wraiths and possessed refrigerators, truck tires and harvesting combines are after him. Video Game Review: Remedy Entertainment?s Alan Wake for Xbox 360 2010-05-19T21:51:00Z "I'm the only freak who's doing all this," said Thomas, gesturing at a forest of gigantic ghouls, vampires, gravestones, pumpkins, corpses, wraiths and zombies. 'Tis the season: to tour Halloween light displays 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z More Photos » Emerging from the chamber where he has been threatened with torture, the man before us seems to have withered into a sleep-walking wraith of his former, vigorous self. Theater Review: F. Murray Abraham in ?Galileo? at Classic Stage Company 2012-02-24T03:00:00Z On FX's "Damages," we saw the white-haired wraith create an almost lovable monster in the form of Arthur Frobisher, all kind eyes and awkward rage. Ted Danson gambles comeback on "CSI" 2011-09-21T16:22:00Z She saw her mother, shrouded in a dark covering of wraiths, bones and melting faces, and felt her overwhelming grief. Scientists explore using psychedelics to treat alcohol, drug disorders 2023-01-02T05:00:00Z This Diana, a pale wraith who clutches at her children like she needs them to keep her tethered, is a bird in a luxurious trap; we see the eating disorders, the mental illness, the misery. ‘Spencer’ review: Casting of Kristen Stewart as Princess Diana is strangely inspired 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Tom Skerritt moves through “East of the Mountains” like a hobbled wraith. ‘East of the Mountains’ review: Tom Skerritt shines as an ill man journeying home from Seattle 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z For years, Mr. Guzmán remained a wraith, invisible to authorities whose efforts to capture him proved futile. Abimael Guzman, leader of Peru’s Shining Path terrorist group, dies at 86 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z “In the final series of swift lifts, her foot seemed barely to touch the floor. It was the image that others have never matched, the airborne wraith who seems to fly out of a lithograph.” Carla Fracci, a reigning star of 20th-century ballet, dies at 84 2021-05-30T04:00:00Z Finally back home, she was … weird — an insomniac “wandering around the House at all hours like a soundless wraith… In the morning her children sometimes found her unconscious in unexpected places.” The most devastating thing about Mary Trump's portrait is her empathy for Donald Trump 2020-07-14T04:00:00Z She craved a new archetype: whether she resembled a space lieutenant or racoon-eyed wraith, the one consistent would be her iconoclastic skill as the sole producer of her music. Pop star, producer or pariah? The conflicted brilliance of Grimes 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z She parks a Category 5 hurricane over a Caribbean archipelago, reducing a city to sticks, leaving whole neighborhoods dimly visible like wraiths beneath the floodwaters and littering the streets with corpses. Opinion | Trump’s jazz combo of national distraction gets some new members 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Next on the stand was a silicone wraith in a black parka and gloves, whose face alone was so frightening that one juror turned his chair away. Mexican drug lord Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman found guilty in U.S. trial 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z It literally struggled to materialize, and Alex Smith seemed more like a wraith, a vapor of a quarterback. Perspective | Redskins are cruising along in first place, but it doesn’t always look like it 2018-10-28T04:00:00Z “A sheet of A4 paper was too flimsy a thing to hold between my daughter and a band of howling wraiths from the underworld,” Pershall writes. My daughter, the murderer: a mother's desperate journey through the mental health crisis 2018-08-17T04:00:00Z My wife, a woman of uncommon brilliance and strength, took her final breath on New Year’s Eve in 2015, her body like a wraith. Opinion | Science might save my daughter. Don’t kill it. 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z A wraith that used to haunt the Golden Fleece pub allegedly followed an American visitor home to tug at her hair every night. A nightmare on each street: are these the world's most haunted cities? 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z “He’s a little bit of a wraith, a ghost,” a law enforcement official said. Ahmad Rahami: Fixture in Family’s Business and, Lately, a ‘Completely Different Person’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Is the Oslo crime world full of existentialists so haunted by the blood-red skies and isolated wraiths of Munch’s anguished imagination that they are driven to break into museums? Dashing rogues? No, art thieves are boring goons 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z The grim wraith of Sandy Hook Elementary School still hangs over the state. Editorials from around New England 2015-10-10T04:00:00Z They were there to publicly unveil a colossal bronze statue of Baphomet, the goat-headed wraith who, after centuries of various appropriations, is now the totem of contemporary Satanism. Hundreds Gather for Unveiling of Satanic Statue in Detroit 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z He is no Ayatollah Khomeini, some kind of sage who might yet return to his homeland to rule like a Biblical wraith. The Farce Behind Morsi’s Death Sentence 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z Which brings us to the “fantasy about ghouls and wraiths” bit. Why Feminist Frequency Is Dead Wrong About 'The Witcher 3' 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z From there, I met an herbalist, a hunter, a man who wanted me to dispatch the wraith haunting a local well and a woman who just wanted me to get her pan back. 'The Witcher 3' Review, One Hour At A Time: Part 2 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z You play as Celebrimbor, the wraith from the original game that imbued the main character with ghostly powers. You can finally fight Sauron in Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z A Variety review of one performance, cited by Schmidt, complained, “She is terribly thin, almost a wraith, and should be gowned more becomingly.” How Karen Carpenter's Death Changed the Way We Talk About Anorexia 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z It’s all very Jacksonian, with Ninja Saruman smacking wraiths with his staff and so forth. 'The Hobbit: Battle Of The Five Armies' Review: This Is The End 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Boghaunter is an especially great name, like some dark wraith arisen from the shrouded, dank recesses of ancient Ireland or England. Chaseburg naturalist helps catalog dragonflies 2014-08-23T04:00:00Z His work included early 1980s special-effects challenges such as the female wraith of "Ghost Story," William Hurt's flesh-warping metamorphosis in "Altered States," and the rapidly aging vampires and crumbling corpses in "The Hunger." Dick Smith dies at 92; 'Exorcist' makeup man won Oscar for 'Amadeus' 2014-07-31T04:00:00Z You can sneak around and assassinate enemies, take control of orcs through your powerful wraith magic, and, of course, engage in all sorts of melee violence. Why It's Time For The Peter Jackson Era Of 'The Lord Of The Rings' To End 2014-01-30T19:05:00Z Opponents realise this only after he has passed them … lissom and beautifully balanced, he glides like a silent wraith through gaps nobody else has spotted. The forgotten story of ... Richard Sharp 2013-01-30T14:13:17Z After a half-millennium in subterranean solitary confinement under the Ring’s influence, he is a sibilant wraith, arguing with himself as Norman Bates did with his late mother. The Hobbit: A Lot of Trudging 2012-12-05T14:35:00Z It happed at the time of Hallowmass, when the dead may walk abroad, That the wraith of Ralph of the Peaceful Heart went forth from the courts of God. Poetry of the Supernatural 2012-04-22T02:00:10.897Z This gives him the appearance of a gigantic wraith. Jeremiah A Drama in Nine Scenes 2012-04-10T02:00:19.943Z Two wraiths revisiting the glimpses of the moon—hold on! Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It would be nice if English rugby also raised a glass to the silent wraith of cold winters past. The forgotten story of ... Richard Sharp 2013-01-30T14:13:17Z "Not another word about wraiths and spectres!" his youthful aunt ordered briskly. The White Blackbird 2012-03-10T03:00:15.513Z They have there all the adventures whose wraiths danced before me when I was building courts and making palm trees and finding out the many fine and fair uses of cowries and fir-cones. Wings and the Child or, the Building of Magic Cities 2012-02-26T03:00:14.933Z "Now the wraith of old Isaac pinch ye!" said Sir William, half laughing, half angry. Cardigan 2012-02-24T03:00:29.073Z Although midnight is the prescribed time for all ghostly visitants, these wraiths had arranged for a much earlier appearing. The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 2012-02-22T03:00:28.473Z The millway path looks like a wraith, The lock is black as ink, And silently in stream and sky The stars begin to blink. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Now and then a white wraith peeped through the opening and with mocking laugh threw down great heaps of snow, then swept away over our heads. Vagaries 2012-02-17T03:00:27.693Z By this the storm grew loud apace, The water wraith was shrieking; And in the scowl of heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking. The Land of Song, Book II For lower grammar grades 2012-02-16T03:00:03.167Z For half a lifetime we persist in lavishing our love upon a phantom, and, discovering by chance how evil is the wraith, lie down despairing. The Maid of Honour, Volume 2 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:34.990Z A white wraith of mist, like the very ghost of a cloud, was creeping silently along the mountain side and veiled the vision of the wide lands below. The Lucky Piece A Tale of the North Woods 2012-02-13T03:00:18.927Z There you will find no goblins, ghosts, wraiths or imps—no witches, spooks or sorcerers. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z Scarce was I gone, I saw his ghost; It vanished with a shriek of sorrow; Thrice did the water wraith ascend And gave a doleful groan through Yarrow. The Genius of Scotland or Sketches of Scottish Scenery, Literature and Religion 2012-02-11T03:03:41.800Z To men who believed in kelpie and wraith and the second sight, a belief in witch and warlock was easy enough. Witch, Warlock, and Magician Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland 2012-02-06T03:00:14.350Z It seemed to me that his wraith was a presence in the garden, and the garden its most fitting habitation. Lawrence Clavering 2012-02-01T03:00:11.667Z I don’t expect him to become a wraith, nor do I expect him to change much from what he is right now: a big man. Prince Fielder was a big presence from his earliest baseball days 2012-01-30T05:31:31Z We might expect persons who have experienced spontaneous visual hallucinations, of the kind vulgarly styled “ghosts” or “wraiths,” to succeed in inducing pictures in a glass ball. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 7 "Crocoite" to "Cuba" 2012-01-22T03:00:24.397Z You wait here——” “Oh, no, I get caught,” interrupted the woods wraith. The Girl Scouts at Rocky Ledge Nora's Real Vacation 2012-01-20T03:00:14.427Z No mere attenuated wraiths or soulless phantoms were they who thus visited us from "beyond the veil," they were strong, distinct, intelligent individualities, veritable souls, palpitating with vitality, and eager to render loving service. The Story of Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland and of the new Gospel of Interpretation 2012-01-18T03:00:12.427Z But the Professor condoned my failure in the regular psychical line, in consideration of my brilliant success as a beholder of wraiths and visions. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z Another wraith there is in connection with this Niagara dock which cannot be omitted. A Century of Sail and Steam on the Niagara River 2012-01-11T03:00:29.487Z The sunny garden, where the poet lives with his bees and flowers, is a more splendid domain than moonlit pseudo-mediæval empires, peopled with the wraiths of women. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z The most marked form of this feature is the taisk or wraith, a cry uttered by a person who is soon to die, and heard by the seer. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z And like the wraith thou art Wherewith my heart is haunted; Ye both take most delight Where ye the least are wanted. The Melody of Earth An Anthology of Garden and Nature Poems From Present-Day Poets 2011-12-31T03:00:17.930Z On the very day and hour when I had seen Mr. Mansfield's wraith in Piccadilly, Mr. Mansfield himself was walking down the Corn Market in Oxford, in the direction of the Taylor Institute. Strange Stories 2012-01-16T03:00:05.067Z He was a weakly creature, with a white face, quite expressionless with sleep, and his ragged rough hair gave him the look of a wraith. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z The wraith's stony eyes stared on, but there was silence. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z Samuel's wraith affirmed that the kingdom was transferred to David, that Saul's army would be defeated by the Philistines, and that "to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me." The Two Tests: The Supernatural Claims of Christianity Tried by Two of its Own Rules 2011-12-24T03:08:06.143Z I may, however, advert to the current belief that certain individuals in the same family have, for many succeeding generations, their death foretold by some "wraith" or "phantom" appearing to them. Ancient Faiths And Modern A Dissertation upon Worships, Legends and Divinities 2011-11-24T03:00:37.917Z Again he took up the flash, and instantly the impression vanished, as if it had been a wraith fleeing from the light. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z Its shrouded form Lies on the logs that make its pyre, And fancy sees its ghost ascend, A shadowy wraith above the fire. The Call of the Mountains and other Poems 2011-10-28T02:00:27.360Z No shadow now dims the face of the water; Gone, gone is the wraith of the Geraldine's Daughter. A Book of Irish Verse Selected from modern writers with an introduction and notes by W. B. Yeats 2011-10-27T02:00:26.373Z Six minutes to follow the path around the pond, an additional three minutes to fly up the hillside like a delivering wraith or mercy-angel, bearing the simple gift of a coat. George Saunders: “Tenth of December.” 2011-10-24T04:00:00Z Gliding through the mist like a wraith the squat, snub-nosed tender ran alongside and was made fast. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z Silent as a wraith she stole down the hall. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z And from their Tower they could see the ocean, which, when the weather was hot, furled and unfurled along the shore its shining waves, and threw them upon the island-coasts like wraiths of fire. The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the land of Flanders and elsewhere 2011-10-04T02:00:19.193Z Fetches and wraiths ... fetches and wraiths ... fetches and wraiths ... King Lear's Wife; The Crier by Night; The Riding to Lithend; Midsummer-Eve; Laodice and Dana? 2011-09-17T02:00:30.620Z It may have been the wraith of history in protest; it may have been an inherently perverse nature; or it may have been the cider. The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon and other humorous tales 2011-09-17T02:00:25.067Z When these parties entered, Geordie's eyes and mouth had relapsed into that condition they presented on that occasion when he saw the wraith by the bed with the green curtains. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z The face was white and rigid now, but the wraith of a ghastly smile lingered on her lips. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z Sick at heart, Alan wondered if he looked upon his own wraith. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z I turned and looked in: there, grinning at me from the interior of the hansom, over the folding-doors, was the wraith of Barnjum! The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Evelyn administered a gentle prod; the burnt fragment of wood fell apart, the flame flared hopefully once and then passed into a wraith of itself that curled dolorously into the chimney. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z Even the wraith bride performed her part now, where she had feeling to help her weakness, and set her up among realities. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z His roseate speculations of the Bungalow seemed now but hollow wraiths that had mocked him with an unrealisable promise. The Long Lane's Turning 2011-08-23T02:00:34Z Familiar with the legends of his people, it would have been no strange thing to him that there, upon the hillside, should appear the wraith of himself. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z I had not been in very long before my landlady came up to see if I wanted anything, and of course as soon as she came in, she saw the wraith. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z Instead of valuable objects cheap images and models are often substituted; and why not, if the mere ghosts of the things are all that the wraith can enjoy? Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" 2011-08-15T02:00:28.473Z "It is the wraith bride o' the peel," said the old forester. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 2011-09-09T02:01:06.280Z There is the way of foretelling death by a cry, that they call taisk, which some call a wraith, in the lowland. The History of the Life and Adventures of Mr. Duncan Campell A Gentlen, who, tho' Deaf and Dumb, Writes down any Stranger's name at first Sight; 2011-08-14T02:00:22.973Z Nebulous and gruesome shreds of blue-fog like wraiths shifted over the sea. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z I borrowed the necessary funds and had soon made all preliminary arrangements for running the wraith of Barnjum on a short tour in the provinces, deciding to open at Tenby, in South Wales. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z And Bess was wasted to a still frailer wraith, if such a thing was possible. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z A terrible cry burst from her, and darting like a wraith from her couch she flew past him, vanishing in the night. For the Right 2011-08-01T02:00:10.250Z By this the storm grew loud apace; The water wraith was shrieking; And in the scowl of heaven each face Grew dark as they were speaking. School Reading by Grades Sixth Year 2011-07-31T02:00:11.420Z Early in the morning the faithful friends were up again, tipping about like two wraiths of the dawn in their trailing dressing gowns. Molly Brown's Junior Days 2011-07-14T02:00:11.180Z Whether the wraith managed in some covert way, when my attention was diverted, to insult the national prejudices of that sensitive and hot-blooded nation, I cannot say. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z “It’s just like heaven!” cried the little wraith. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z All through the centuries the wraith has survived in literature, has flitted pallidly across the pages of poetry, story and play, with a sad wistfulness, a forlorn dignity. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z Before the reverence and worship of his eyes the wraith fled. The Black Opal 2011-07-13T02:00:16.323Z That proud, frigid wraith--that phantom, in whose veins there flows not one drop of warm blood--has robbed me of you! Only a Girl: or, A Physician for the Soul. 2011-07-13T02:00:14.230Z But Barnjum wouldn't; he only looked at his own wraith with a grim satisfaction as it capered in an imbecile fashion upon the rug. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z He tossed them into a baby-wagon, where sat the frailest and whitest wraith one could ever imagine alive. In Wild Rose Time 2011-08-01T02:00:13.473Z Mrs. G. Kelly sends an experience of a "wraith" which seems in some mysterious way to have been conjured up in her mind by the description she had heard, and then externalized. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z The wraith on The Skegs had never been known to appear in vain. Dorrien of Cranston 2011-07-07T02:00:31.540Z Long, long they haunted us when gales were blowing,— Dim wraiths of ships, like shadows in the rain;— Little we slept on winter nights of snowing, Thinking of those who might not sail again. The Ballad of the Quest 2011-07-06T02:00:44.593Z But to this day the appearance of the wraith is a mystery to me. The Black Poodle And Other Tales 2011-08-30T02:00:37.963Z The fog closed round in damp clinging wraiths, affecting everyone not only with an acute feeling of discomfort, but with a sense of impending misfortune. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z She was just as unflinching with Greg Southam, the Edmonton Journal photographer who, near the end, often balked at recording images of the wraith he had grown to know and admire. Woman's legacy from cancer death is anti-smoking message 2011-06-29T19:11:19Z It might have been thought that she would thus dominate her world: to the contrary, she haunted it, more a wraith than a body, a creature of functions rather than of faculties. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z These wraiths, who subsisted on roots, reptiles and insects, still haunted the mountains near Dabienoras, and levied a kind of toll on the very occasional traveller. Lodges in the Wilderness 2011-06-15T02:00:17.057Z Still the other said no word; a figure, so motionless and white, it seemed but a wraith pausing at the side of its own "narrow house." The Lady of the Mount 2011-05-24T02:00:15.640Z A seagull appearing out of nowhere, swooped upon the ship with a startling cry, and disappeared like a wraith of fog more solid than the other gliding and twisting coils of mist. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z Nay, people would sooner have taken him for his own wraith and Prophet Samuel than for Siebenk�s still in the body. Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. 2011-05-20T02:00:42.297Z She remained a shadow—a hunted, tearful, desperate wraith of girlhood: more than that, nothing. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z Because I want to know whether you are real ... or only a wraith, a streak of moonlight, a phantom of my brain. Poppy The Story of a South African Girl 2011-05-20T02:00:25.147Z As he looked again, a beautiful nascent wraith slowly developed and occupied the nimbus of the buff light. The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky 2011-05-08T02:00:04.810Z Then one of them made a fire with dry sticks, trusting to the curling wraiths of mist to hide the slight smoke, and the other filled the kettle. The Golden Rock 2011-07-05T02:00:22.137Z O King, thou art come at last; But thy wraith has haunted the Scotish Sea To my sight for four years past. Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Hagiwara slept in his weakness; his servant watched; the wraiths came and departed in sobbing despair. Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z I was sure that their wraiths were still in it, and that our presence annoyed them. All the Days of My Life: An Autobiography The Red Leaves of a Human Heart 2011-03-31T02:00:16.763Z He knew that it was her wraith, because she was so white—so unnaturally white. The Daughter Pays 2011-03-19T02:00:09.513Z Coming to a slough, Frosty slunk like a wraith along its edge and sank down to watch a baby muskrat. Swamp Cat 2011-03-06T03:00:20.453Z As the ship made way, the moon once more Sank slow in her rising pall; And I thought of the shrouded wraith of the King, And I said, "The Heavens know all." Heroines That Every Child Should Know Tales for Young People of the World's Heroines of All Ages 2011-05-04T02:00:19.257Z Therefore take your golden token with you; you will have need of it when you meet the wraith of your lover.” Japanese Fairy Tales 2011-04-15T02:00:14.617Z It is founded on a strange variation of the Trojan myth, first adopted by Stesichorus in his Palinode—that only a wraith of Helen passed to Troy, while the real Helen was detained in Egypt. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" 2011-03-05T03:00:24.537Z The engine left in its track white wraiths of steam which vanished under the lusty rays of the sun. The Revellers 2011-02-26T03:00:50.133Z The wraith of an army reached the sea and the wraith of an army of non-combatants,—all of this suffering merely to find a haven from the advancing Teutonic armies! Serbia: A Sketch 2011-02-11T03:00:25.893Z I dreamt once that I had found Spring"—Bertie's voice sounded far away to her—"and it was a mocking wraith. The Oyster 2011-02-10T03:00:49.300Z Out of the smoke of men’s wrath, The red mist of anger, Suddenly, As a wraith of sleep, A boy’s face, white and tense, Convulsed with terror and hate, The lips trembling.... Eidola 2011-01-17T03:00:49.097Z Dear Lord, I would that we might live by faith, However cold and dark the day may seem, And trust that every cloud is just a wraith, And every shadow but a fading dream. The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems 2011-01-14T03:00:46.933Z The very stars seemed dim with dread, and a wraith of nebulous black veiled the face of the moon. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z Oh, doth thine ear Pursue the ebbing chord in some fine sphere, Where wraiths of vanished echoes live and roam, And where thy thoughts, here strangered, find a home? The Two Twilights 2010-12-25T03:00:12.393Z Flying snow plastered his clothing, and he was a white wraith when he reached the door. The Lost Wagon 2010-12-20T17:12:36.807Z The face cometh again As a wraith of sleep: A boy’s face delicate and blonde, The very mask of God, Broken. Eidola 2011-01-17T03:00:49.097Z This, it will be noticed, is a variation upon the wraith, or Lledrith. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z As a house-boy appeared like a white wraith from the dusk of the hall, he looked up. Caravans By Night A Romance of India 2011-01-03T03:01:02.370Z We can’t retrieve the specifics, but to adapt a phrase of William James’s, there is a wraith of memory. Essay: The Plot Escapes Me 2010-09-19T20:30:00Z Through the caption, “J’Accuse,” these wraiths demanded whether the survivors’ salvation had been worth the blood price. Book Review - The Great Silence - By Juliet Nicolson 2010-07-23T16:29:00Z The Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead is one of at least a dozen old Dutch houses, wraiths from a long-bygone age in various states of repair and bastardization, that still grace the Borough of Kings. 2010-01-29T23:11:00Z The Scotch wraith and Irish fetch have their parallel in Wales in the Lledrith, or spectre of a person seen before his death; it never speaks, and vanishes if spoken to. British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions 2010-12-20T17:11:57.810Z But I could smell the lilacs she had left, and the scent of them seemed like the wraith of her presence in the sunny room. The Idyl of Twin Fires The white-capped old woman, who had been but a wraith figure the night before, came to his side with a bowl of chestnut soup and black bread. A Blot on the Scutcheon Everywhere crooked sunbeams danced on the smooth roadway, and from the cottage chimneys curls of smoke rose gaily into the blue canopy, where they melted in shining wraiths, like the vapour from sacrificial altars. The Undying Past At that very hour his wraith appeared to a citizen of the place, and told him the tale of the tragedy. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius In ordinary speech an apparition of a person not known to the percipient to be dead is called a wraith, in the Highland phrase, a spirit of the living. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 3 "Apollodorus" to "Aral" God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the heart to fight—and lose. Challenge She seemed the wraith of the girl who had ridden down the road. The Man from Jericho I crouch and listen; and again The woods are filled with phantom forms— With shapes, grotesque in mystic train, That rise and reach to me cool arms Of mist; the wandering wraiths of rain. A Voice on the Wind and Other Poems I stood beside the lilac bush While all its blossoms rained on me, I watched the white wraith of a moon Turn to pale gold above the sea. One-Act Plays By Modern Authors Have you tunes for such a sullen little wraith, Half dream, swooping high, scarcely seen, chiefly faith? Provocations Time had faded that warmer blue to a wintry turquoise, but there was enough of summer's image in this wraith of a day to render very poignantly to him the past. Sinister Street, vol. 2 The next moment she had entered the room and shut the door behind her, and was coming towards him like a sweet wraith. The Man from Jericho Some constituent is first set apart as the nucleus or focus and is then enveloped with an elusive, intangible wraith of meaning, which is called the margin. Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude She set things to rights, as noiseless as a wraith. Cinderella Jane The breeze, too, gathered the dust into wraiths and scurrying wisps through which glimpses of the sloping uplands toward Aix were obtainable. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 And, little by little, they began to crowd her vision, throng all about her, laughing, rosy wraiths floating, drifting, whirling in an endless dance. The Moonlit Way This, nine o'clock, was the fatal hour when the ghosts of her dead past paced like caged beasts up and down in her small room, and the wraith of the day's work rattled its chains. A Bed of Roses When Trakor nodded to indicate Tharn's plan was clear to him, the cave lord rose to his feet and, like a shadowy wraith, moved to the nearest wall. The Return of Tharn The hollow wraith of dying fame died wholly. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Suddenly, from among them there uprose a small, white wraith—lithe, barefooted, with wandering hair. Love's Usuries What had they talked about to drive the colour from Dulcie’s cheeks and alter Skeel’s countenance so that he had looked more like his own wraith than his living self? The Moonlit Way Bert was carried on board, the vessel slipped its moorings, and like a wraith passed down the Bay of Limon and out to sea. Bert Wilson at Panama Like disembodied wraiths the seven members of Vokal's palace guard crept among the towering trees to one side of the trail. The Return of Tharn The sullen and sepulchral air of the room seemed to vibrate with the wraiths of those efforts. The Gray Mask Well may that huddled heap of hills between Suvla Bay and Sari Bair be haunted by the wraith of Irish tragedy and grief; well may the wailing cry of the banshee be ever heard there. The Irish at the Front Bob went through it all, the first night and what came after, like a wraith. The Dual Alliance Monica was more like Margaret, but much fairer than the first fair sister; and with her reserve and her pale-gold hair she seemed, as she greeted him, to be indeed a wraith of the moon. Plashers Mead A Novel He proved by practice that all other forms of wealth are reduced to thin wraiths before this personification of riches. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Yet, I, too, believed you to be a wraith of myself, interrupting my sins with your sorrow, interrupting my desires with your prayers. Bye-Ways Then as she became in a few steps a wraith, he chanted in farewell courtesy, "Mrs. Trewhella!" Carnival It is as though I had been in the presence of a wraith, and the name of the spectre, dead to me, were Love itself. A Modern Wizard She was most like Pauline, and indeed in Pauline Guy could see her mother, as the young moon holds in her lap the wraith of the old moon.... Plashers Mead A Novel "And suppose Lucy's wraith flitted by at the moment," said Helen, smiling. Trevethlan: Volume 1 A Cornish Story. I had looked upon my living wraith, and my living wraith had called me demon. Bye-Ways An outpost sentry challenged what he thought a wraith. Leerie And as if dispatched on that breath—through the key-hole, perhaps—there blew in suddenly among us from the back of the house somewhere a tiny, gray-faced, white-haired wraith of a man. Where the Pavement Ends A wraith of a smile passed over the grey face. An Unknown Lover For a moment it seemed as though the wraith of a smile were dawning in their depths, then pain claimed her once more, and she groaned and winced, lifting a hand to her bruised throat. Lady Cassandra You’—and he pointed at me with outstretched fingers—'you, my wraith, made in my very likeness, were surely born when I was born, to torment me. Bye-Ways They were wraiths, most of them—and some with babies at their breasts. Leerie Wi' wine like that before ane," responded the baron, "the topers alongside o' ye may be Frenchmen or Dutchmen, warriors or warlocks, wraiths or wassailers, merchants or mahouns—a's alike. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume I Historical, Traditionary, and Imaginative I have loved, even though the woman that I love is a wraith. The Lost Door She is my maid, my shadow, my wraith, my anything you like, that never leaves me. Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" Bernard, in that moment, I understood all—my depression, my unreasoning despair, the fancied hatred of others, even my few good impulses, all came from him, from this living holy wraith of my evil self. Bye-Ways She led, drifting like a smoke wraith, before him. Shock Treatment Like a wraith in the night, taking advantage of every shrub and patch of shadow, Mark crept close to the casements. The Time Mirror On and down, more slowly now, crouching, slinking, heavily oppressed, tempted to snarl at boulders and tear at wraiths of fog. Black Amazon of Mars This wraith thought I was the Soldier's Friend. The Chameleon Man “And, as the light of the dawn grew strong upon the mountains, he, my other self, my wraith, blessed me.” Bye-Ways The present is swallowed up again, and there rises before me the wraith of a village church in the far-off mountains of Pennsylvania. Neighbors Life Stories of the Other Half Like a wraith in the night, the other slipped inside. The Time Mirror The gliding creatures, sleek and slender, reedlike, bending, delicate as wraiths, their bodies shaped from northern rainbows of amethyst and rose—if they should touch Ciara, if their loathsome hands should touch her.... Black Amazon of Mars His fist lashed out at that glittering silver instrument and the face behind it, but Corio avoided him like a wraith, still smiling fixedly, the horn again at his lips. Isle of the Undead Again, he was travelling with Fleur and the team in a blizzard, when out of the smother of snow before him beckoned the wraith of Julie Breton—always just ahead, always beckoning to him. The Whelps of the Wolf A Vandal, mounting guard at a street-corner, superstitiously made the sign of the cross and avoided the wraith floating past. The Scarlet Banner He saw the girl moving in and out among the shadows, about the open log stable, like a wraith. The Mountain Girl She advanced ever so little, a shapeless white wraith attracted by the syrup in his voice. Pastoral Affair And touched by its power, the columns of undead stiffened, thinned to wraiths, flowed as water flows down the stone steps, vanished! Isle of the Undead In the early evening, forty-eight hours out of Whale River, four white wraiths of huskies with a ghost-like driver, turned in to the trade-house at Fort George. The Whelps of the Wolf A shadow is above the ice, a wraith of destruction—the figure of a man standing at the dam with his axe and club—waiting. The Story of the Trapper Although her lips smiled a fleeting wraith of a smile that came and went in an instant, he thought her eyes looked troubled as she lifted them to his face. The Mountain Girl "Listen here," he went on when the youth had vanished like a wraith. Command A sweeping glance revealed no one, only the murky glow of the altar fire, and the wraiths of smoke pluming upward toward the shadowed roof. Isle of the Undead A west wind comes away, freshens, and stirs the vapour till it whips close overhead in wraiths and streamers, raises here and there a fold on the distant horizon, then dies again. Merchantmen-at-arms : the British merchants' service in the war Constance, gracefully exhaling a perfumed wraith, looked significantly to her husband, who gave an imperceptible nod and after a few thoughtful puffs came to the marrow of his subject. The Song of the Wolf She glided past him into the house like a wraith, and he rose without a word of reply and stretched himself on the half-made bed in the loom shed, as he was. The Mountain Girl And above their heads, like shadowy wraiths, hung immense candelabra whose lustres glittered mysteriously in the candlelight under their coverings of dusty muslin. Command Overhead were skeleton structures, like landing stages; and across the further distance was the fleeting, transitory wraith of a monorail air-road. Astounding Stories, June, 1931 And as afloat his chill hand lay, "Ha, ha! to hell I sent his wraith!" Song-Surf She laughed unaffectedly, but underneath the dimples of her peachy cheeks spread the veriest wraith of a soft rose tint. The Song of the Wolf But I cast my net with never a fear, tho wraiths in me And birds of wild unrest were stirring and starting and crying. Sea Poems Like a wraith she glided in, believing at last that her duty was to awaken her father. Frances of the Ranges The Old Ranchman's Treasure And so they passed,—never to meet in this world—each always wishing, each defying, each folding a wraith of beauty to the heart. The "Genius" Gradually she began to see herself in the glass again, a faint ashy outline, then a transparent image, like the wraith of her dead self, with staring eyes and dishevelled colourless hair. Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome But the four pair of frightened eyes strained past the ghostly old man to a thin wraith that lay on the bed. Madge Morton's Trust Take care, take care! for frailty Is the prey of the strong, and you, a wraith of it, Have yet a long while to go before nightfall Brings you to sure effulgence! Sea Poems Here and there an almond-tree, lured into premature bloom by the seductive California winter, stood like a wraith by the roadside. Stories of the Foot-hills The brightness soon passed, as the hurrying fog wraiths closed in on each other. The Silent Barrier I beg your pardon, madam, but I took you for a wraith! Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Stealing up the path to the house was a wraith; tall, thin, emaciated, with hair absolutely white and thin, and skeleton-like hands; it was the semblance of an old man. Madge Morton's Trust The camels appeared like wraiths from behind the dune, and Rick blinked trying to see more clearly. The Egyptian Cat Mystery "Well, I guess if you don't care, I'll stay; I guess they won't hurt me,"—the wraith of a smile flitted across her face. Stories of the Foot-hills That pale ghost conjured from the grave by Stampa was intangible, powerless, a dreamlike wraith evoked by a madman’s fancy. The Silent Barrier Poor wraiths and skeletons of landscapes, he would have thought them too fleshless and bloodless to touch even the ghost of longing. The Return of the Prodigal Out beyond the clear sky and tender clouds, the old hands saw the wraith of the rugged Cape that we had yet to weather. The Brassbounder A Tale of the Sea They belong so wholly to the past, they are mere wraiths of bygone stirrings, they cannot clothe you with knowledge of love. The Kempton-Wace Letters The intruder moved as fast as any wraith but the two former gods were too quick for him. Satan and the Comrades Heavy clouds and the smothering snow wraiths hid the travelers under a dense pall that suggested the approach of night, although the actual time was about half past one o’clock in the afternoon. The Silent Barrier From the window of Uraka's Little cabin I could see All that mighty host of wraiths As it drifted through the gorge. Atta Troll The passing train, half a mile away, gives forth a mere wraith of sound. A Year in the Fields He sees his wraith stop suddenly, poised on the very brink of a frightful precipice, those terrible shapes behind; a yawning, mist-hid gulf before. The Red Moccasins A Story The man of whom Ramsay had caught a glimpse, standing behind the King, had vanished like a wraith. James VI and the Gowrie Mystery Like a wraith he merged with the shadows below. Seven Keys to Baldpate Far before her eyes, unholy Mist was spread; that darkly, slowly Rolled aside,—like some huge curtain Hung above the land and sea;— And beneath it, wild, uncertain, Rose the wraiths of memory. Weeds by the Wall Verses Betty, her eyes wide with fear, her face white as a lily, appeared like a wraith at the parlor door and looked at him. Exit Betty The night was warm, for September, and grey fog wraiths began rising from the ground. Aces Up Of Tintoret's Christ before Pilate, of that figure of the Saviour, long, straight, wrapped in white and luminous like his own wraith, I have spoken already. Renaissance Fancies and Studies Being a Sequel to Euphorion He shook his head to clear it of these thought wraiths. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 He moved slowly, a sort of gray wraith almost discarnate and apart from things of the earth. In the Heart of a Fool Silent as wraiths between the shadowy tree-trunks then, Finn and the four dingoes stalked their prey, describing a considerable circle in order to approach from good cover. Finn The Wolfhound In an instant it was the wraith of a cage; then, where nothing had been, stood a cage. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Slowly, as a wavering mist Waned the wonder out of sight, To a sigh of amethyst, To a wraith of scented light. Collected Poems Volume One A sudden unwillingness to have her return alone to the sobbing menace of Iscah Nicholas, the impotent wraith that had been Lichfield Stope, carried him in an impetuous stride to the stair. Wild Oranges The wraith of smoke that had appeared when Grant first began speaking personally to the men of Harvey, in a minute had grown to a surer evidence of fire. In the Heart of a Fool This wraith, however, presents himself as only a humble admirer of Robert's spiritual glory, and holds much converse with him. Essays in English Literature, 1780-1860 The cage-room was humming, and glowing like a wraith; things seemed imponderable, unsubstantial. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 From a wraith of a cage, in a second it was solid. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Upon the air that Doom hath wrung, Beyond the fields where numberless hands Point to the headland of the West, Lights and vague shadows spell no guilt Unto the wraiths whom Torpor stung. Betelguese A Trip Through Hell A faint–rather dazed smile ran over the congregation like a wraith of smoke. In the Heart of a Fool But for me––the ghost of the desert and the wraith of the blizzard had become real. Trail Tales And far up in the heights, where his own ship could never reach and where no clouds could be, were diaphanous wraiths. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 Thus, Harl explained, the other cage would show as a ghost, the faintest of wraiths, over a Time-distance of some five or ten years. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 Did the pale wraith of Mrs. Hawley-Crowles sigh in the wake of that gilded assembly? Carmen Ariza Satisfied that it was empty, he doubled back with noiseless speed, skirted round the Star Devil and arrived like a wind-carried wraith at the rear wall of the ranch house. Hawk Carse Here and there a choke-cherry in full bloom swayed and shivered like a wraith. The Side Of The Angels A Novel This astral corpse remains near the physical one, and they disintegrate together; clairvoyants see these astral wraiths in churchyards, sometimes showing likeness of the dead body, sometimes as violet mists or lights. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) She understood that Tante had come not as a ghastly wraith; not as a pursuing fury; but as a suppliant. Tante “If one had to choose between that sturdy boy and this 144 wistful wraith, it would be hard,” she thought. Robinetta For arose the wraith of Doubt; And I knew my pipe was out. A line-o'-verse or two In the strange illumination of the search beams he seemed the wraith of a scarecrow. Slaves of Mercury But Jan felt a wild desire to get away by herself and cry and cry over this sad wraith of the young sister whose serene and happy beauty had been the family pride. Jan and Her Job And you may watch, if you please, for the coming of the giraffes which the Society are now anxious to buy, or for the wandering wraiths of those dead, dispossessed, and indignant. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Buildings slid past them like wraiths in the electric light. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, October, 1930 But from one of memory's pantries her wraith peered out. The Paliser case They seemed like wraiths through which, as in a glass, more could be seen beyond. Slaves of Mercury That was why he opened the throttle and drove on wildly through the scurrying wraiths of mist, pierced by the tops of trees that at times rose dangerously near the spreading wings. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Across the stair she wavered, a wraith blown across the gulf of time. Melomaniacs Not a mighty wraith nor spook of Arabian fancy, but a very small girl, or child, with very black hair, very white skin and very dark, beautiful eyes. The Strollers But whatever happened, nothing now could prevent her carrying to her grave the memory of this one glorious flight: "better to have loved and lost--" The wraith of an old refrain troubled Sally's reverie. Nobody Or in the morning, when the rose-red of dawn was aglow, there seemed to hover over the city that wraith of mist whose secret Claude Lorraine surprises in his landscapes. Italy, the Magic Land Was it a wraith or woman seen, A thing of dreams, or blood and flesh, The flame that burst from out the sheen Of beauty's undulating mesh? Enamels and Cameos and other Poems It has color, is a living thing, the thin wraith that pursues man ever to his grave. Melomaniacs They had shut me out; but I could visit Urtraria—as an outsider, as a wraith—and I saw what they had done. Wanderer of Infinity Sterilizers were convenient to one side, a thin wraith of steam drifting up from them into the source of the light. The Affair of the Brains The man rose slowly; like a wraith on the wind he lifted into its top-most branches; and there, in the broad, cuplike leaves, he warily ensconced himself. The Bluff of the Hawk Meanwhile Maria Angelina was still standing there in the moonlight, like a little wraith of silver, smiling with absent eyes at Johnny's muttered words, withdrawing, in childish panic, from Johnny's close pressing ardor. The Innocent Adventuress Like wraiths they waved desperate ineffectual hands and made sad mimickings of their dead and dusty triumphs.... Melomaniacs Rising, the figures ascend, but now leaf thin, tapering to a dusky wraith, which, fiery tipped, draws its twofold passion from my heart. Monday or Tuesday Over the metalized roof of the world the snows and storms, the winds and the wraiths of the long dead moaned and screamed as with an icy voice of abysmal warning. Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 Not now, with Lucy's face like a wraith floating in the starlight! Valley of Wild Horses When he caught up to Lyaeus they were walking among twining wraiths of mist rose-shot from a rim of the sun that poked up behind hills of bright madder purple. Rosinante to the Road Again Like a wraith he slipped into their embrace, and before they could grasp him, standing so close that his chest almost touched his adversary's, he whipped a right to Gore's jaw. In the Orbit of Saturn And so, my dear, to-morrow you will say 'good-bye' to me, and have a sort of wraith of me instead for a little while. Daisy's Aunt At last he approached the land of his vision, at last he should find the bridge whose wraith had faded before him into the west eight years before! The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. With foot never parched by the barrens, with boat never broken by storm, I follow, I follow her passing and clutch at the wraith of her form! Oklahoma Sunshine A ghostlike wraith of dust blew through the gate. Rosinante to the Road Again Know, fellow, that this is none other than a dead man—a wraith, indeed! Robin Hood There were constant falls of ice from the Barrier, which thundered into the ocean amid great clouds of ice smoke that lingered like wraiths around the edge. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 Do not deceive; Scorn not thy faith— If 'tis a wraith Soon it will fly. Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul And there were films of ice, and wraiths of thin snow in the hollows, the chill touch of which helped him to feel more or less at home. Kings in Exile He may be a ghost, or a bogle, or a wraith," she said; "or he may only be a harmless Brownie. Tales From Scottish Ballads "The one reality of the nineteenth century is the scramble for wealth; politics, literature, science, religion, art, are, apart from money-getting, mere lifeless wraiths." British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals For did not the wraith of his present wife quietly take its place before the altar where by rights he should have been able to recall her predecessor? Somehow Good He was pale, like a wraith from out of space, and one could see straight through him, yet he still had all the old mannerisms and tricks. Empire From Bow even unto Hammersmith there draggled a dull, wretched vapor, like the wraith of an impecunious suicide come into a fortune immediately after the fatal deed. The Big Bow Mystery This wraith had years previously appeared to him and warned him that he would meet him at "Ticonderoga." "The Red Watch" With the First Canadian Division in Flanders Now the fairies have got it indeed, they have witched to skeletons all the little bridges across the glen stream; they have mossed and thinned the gates to wraiths. Tatterdemalion I cannot tell what hidden bales of prize, What mystic spell may haunt the wraiths of ships, But these were secret healing on my eyes, And these were cooling water at my lips. Ships in Harbour Round about me silence and gray shadow Peopled with the wraiths of time departed,— Monks with back-thrown cowls who pace the cloisters Now deep-mounded, crumbled, clad with ivy. Sprays of Shamrock The place lacked nothing that I could see to make it attractive to even the most fastidious wandering wraith. Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm He heard the wraith of his own voice speaking to the dead woman who lay under the blossoming irises at his feet. The Dop Doctor “I could almost fancy that we were going away together into some strange country, into the country of the ‘wraiths’ maybe, that grannie whiles tells the bairns about. David Fleming's Forgiveness The tears were falling now, but the wraith of a smile hovered about the corners of Nancy’s mouth. Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Only shadows come and go; Only wraiths flit to and fro; And the bat, grotesque and blind, And the wind. Sprays of Shamrock He travels to her home, is enthusiastically greeted, and finds her even more bewitching than her wraith or whatever it is to be called. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century She looks dazed and faint, as well she may—a hollow-eyed, white-faced wraith of a girl, in her creased white gown. Only an Irish Girl Now that Doggie had gained his freedom, Jeanne ceased to be a wraith. The Rough Road Like a wraith of mist afloat in the night she stole into the darkened room and settled slowly and noiselessly beside him. Colonel Carter's Christmas and The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman Was it possible that his mind, dwelling constantly on Flossy, had evoked her wraith? McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908 Tiny clouds of steam trailed off into space, disappearing in the late afternoon sunshine like a wraith at dawn. Master of the Vineyard There her wraith has since been seen and heard! Hampton Court This frail wraith, this poor demented thing could hold them in the hollow of her hand! McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908. “Take the water and go,” she said to the Indian, and the woman disappeared like a mere wraith of a woman in the pale shadows. That Girl Montana The great misty body rose; it floated over the city like a wraith, and then it swiftly dispersed, even as steam dissolves in the air. A Scientist Rises Her worldly belongings were contained in a split-cane grip and the wraith of a cabin-trunk, whose substance had belonged to her father; her available capital was stuffed in a small leather purse. The Orchard of Tears The wraith led onward; Kitty let herself out of the window, and thence to the ground by help of the ivy roots. Border Ghost Stories She spoke under her breath, the wraith of a weary little smile about her mouth. Sundry Accounts The fog wraiths were very few; the sun blazed more vehemently and wiped them out, so that through the marvelously clear air the expanse of lone, weird 275 country stood forth clean cut. Desert Dust For a moment Lee looked at her as if she had been a wraith. Brand Blotters So there is no need of spooks, wraiths, and ghosts of departed men in our lives. Doctor Jones' Picnic Then to himself again he muttered, 'I doubt he is not long for this world, since I met his wraith as I entered into the choir.' Border Ghost Stories He turned from the waves that leaped at him in wrath To find Mabel Lee, like a wraith, in his path. Three Women Blue had already appeared above, the sun found us again and again, and the fog remnants went spinning and coiling, in last ghostly dance like that of frenzied wraiths. Desert Dust Wandering, viewless and uneasy wraiths, over Flanders, in Artois and Picardy. Waiting for Daylight Something in this cry seemed familiar to Eliphalet, and he felt sure that it proceeded from the family ghost, the warning wraith of the Duncans.” Humorous Ghost Stories His host shuddered, looked through the window apprehensively in the gloaming, saw some vague, misty wraith approaching. Border Ghost Stories She is a wraith, a shadow, a receding phantom; but I wave my hand to her over the years! Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions Ah, no! the wraith's an angel one Whose face is always to the sun, A guardian of the heart's temptations, That saves by fear ere the course be run. Song-waves And she was so far off, a white wraith floating beyond his frantic grasp. Free Air The modern wraith has sold his sheet to the old clo'es man, and dresses as in life. Humorous Ghost Stories Lou was stout and did not move quickly, and was fair prey for Mrs. Stone, who was as thin as a match, and managed to glide about like a wraith. Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life At length, one morning, ere the mist wraiths had vanished, they crawled slowly southwards across the rich golden sand of the lower Sudanese desert. The Tale of a Trooper The dancer was a little girl about twelve years old, as thin as a wraith. Madge Morton's Victory The moon, a ghastly wraith, was far down in the west, the east had not yet taken any hint of rose flush, but held that pallid line of greyish white that precedes sunrise. Judith of the Cumberlands This travesty on the conventional traditions of the wraith is preposterously delightful, one of the cleverest ghost stories in our language. Humorous Ghost Stories I walked beside you, a little wraith of love, through the silent night streets of your great city,—but you did not know me. The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance The way was long, and, when he reached the abbey tree, he fell a-trembling, for there a tall wraith stood within the shadows of the yew. The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation The swift Light Cruisers had overtaken the advancing Battle-fleet, and vanished like wraiths into the haze ahead. The Long Trick She had vanished as completely as if she had been that shadowy astral wraith they had jestingly discussed, and he was not only baffled and perplexed but wounded. The Silver Butterfly In early literature wraiths took themselves very seriously, and insisted on a proper show of respectful fear on the part of those whom they honored by haunting. Humorous Ghost Stories The sobbing woman arose from her chair and hastened toward the wraith. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Elsie, smiling wanly, slipped like a little wraith across and into a chair beside her mother, and felt that dear hand clasping hers. Little Lost Sister Still, she knew, that she could not go far astray if she kept between the railroad and the river, so plucking up her courage she fled through the sleeping town like a wraith. A Dixie School Girl In a very few minutes the dory was a mere gray wraith on the water, but there it hung. Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In Even young female wraiths, demanding latchkeys, refuse to obey the frowning face of the clock, and engage in light-hearted ebullience to make the ghost of Mrs. Grundy turn a shade paler in horror. Humorous Ghost Stories Through the curtains of the cabinet came the semblance of a tenuous wraith in long, trailing robes of white. The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Henry slipped silently into the water, and, pushing his raft before him, was gone like a wraith. The Border Watch A Story of the Great Chief's Last Stand A wraith all in white—gown and neck and arms and face, the masses of fluffy hair making this last more wraith-like. When Grandmamma Was New The Story of a Virginia Childhood Was it not the wraith of his buried love which now hovered before him, blotting out the sight of the carter, deafening his ears to the jest, and palsying his hand? William Pitt and the Great War We feel downright neighborly toward such specters as the futile “last ghost” Nelson Lloyd evokes for us, as we appreciate the satire of Rose O'Neill's sophisticated wraith. Humorous Ghost Stories And I saw Helena pass forward, also, as we all reached the deck, herself pale as a wraith, but with no outcry and no spoken word. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive How can Death be “but a phantom and a wraith” and at the same time follow the poet triumphantly? Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide The wraith of a landlord sat on her bed demanding rent and threatening grisly alternatives. Mary, Mary Near draws the wraith fair, Dull gleams her hair. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Then I was overwhelmed in a cloud-burst of wild warlike wraiths. Humorous Ghost Stories I thought that you were dead—a myth—a wraith. Mr. Faust To go at this fragile little wraith, who is now pale as a snow-drop, would be too unmanly. Floyd Grandon's Honor The recent so-called parties had disappeared for the moment like wraiths. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. I. (of IV.) Not here shall come that pale wraith fair, Who, wandering once in Northern lands, Bore o’er long reaches sere and bare The death-flower white, for baby hands. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman Had it been possible, I would have stopped this riot of wraiths long ere this, for it was more awful than I had anticipated, but it was already too late. Humorous Ghost Stories He was not a wraith, no grisly spectre, no half-nebulous Shape. The Return of Peter Grimm Novelised From the Play So quiet, so like a wraith, and yet with a fascinating loveliness in her eyes, in her tender, blossom-like face, in her fresh young voice. Floyd Grandon's Honor There was nothing of the wraith, or phantom, however, in the broad-shouldered figure in a wide-brimmed Stetson sitting in the office watching Sprudell’s approach with ominous intentness. The Man from the Bitter Roots Torn camouflage fluttering greenish-grey against the ardent yellow sky, and twining among the fantastic black leafless trees, the greenish wraiths of gas. One Man's Initiation—1917 He believes in ghosts, spooks, banshees, and wraiths,—everything uncanny,—and she'd haunt him if he laid his hands on her. Waring's Peril His wraith was struck full in the forehead and fell to earth in the agony of death. Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada The earth was so black that the rising ground was exaggerated into a hill; against it, Helen's figure was like a wraith, yet Zebedee was acutely conscious of her slim solidity. Moor Fires O U then who A Y Z have, Shun O D V as a wraith, For 'tis a bonus to the grave, An S A unto death. The Book of Humorous Verse The fugitives were appearing and disappearing like wraiths. Gold in the Sky Like a wraith Shorty faded into the night, leaving our friend alone with his thoughts. No Man's Land Her nightdress fell about her in a train; it was Betty's, and she looked like a slim white wraith. A Little Girl in Old Boston She used to steal up and look at the wraith of a ball-dress hanging in the third-floor closet, put away with the "choice" garments. A Little Girl of Long Ago She had seen day by day the rapid decline of the bright, beautiful young creature he had brought with him into this poor faded wraith dragging herself about in the neglected, cheerless cabin. A Girl of the Klondike He was with her, and behind them, gliding like a wraith from landing to landing, came Marah, clad like the bride in a traveling dress, but without the bonnet which betokened an instant departure. The Forsaken Inn A Novel And I shall never be so ill-advised as to seek it, for the wraith, like a mocking dryad, would flit from tree to tree, as beautiful and as elusive as the rainbow. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer I saw your wraith choose out its last lodgment on Halloween; I know the spot. Rookwood "Come in here," she said, appearing after her usual sudden fashion in a dim doorway and looking more like a wraith than ever. The Best Short Stories of 1919 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story She thought of second sight, of phantoms, and of wraiths. The Figure In The Mirage 1905 Honor�'s cap crowned the post of his bed like a wraith. The Mothers Of Honoré From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 The description was so appetizing that I am sure the wraith of that long-digested bird hovered over our meager banquet. Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer Then the lowering sun stood on tree-tops, a pale red wraith like the ghost of an Indian. The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 "And you aren't afraid to feel that her gentle wraith is here in the garden?" Mistress Anne "Where is Hugh?" said I. "He came into us," said the lass, "like a wraith." The McBrides A Romance of Arran It passes off on his perceiving that real flesh and blood is before him—Charles Clancy himself, and not his wraith. The Death Shot A Story Retold They were wraiths obediently advancing her dream of one fleeting moment of triumph over fate. Sacrifice "Quite true, fair wraith; but you are not the only ghost at this dance to-night." Frank Merriwell's Pursuit How to Win So with god and poet; Beauty lures them on, Flies, and ere they know it Like a wraith is gone. Alcyone So frail, so fair, So faint she seemed, a wraith you had said there, A woman dead, and not in lovely flesh. Helen Redeemed and Other Poems Moya faced them tensely, a slim wraith of a girl with dark eyes that blazed. The Highgrader It was five o'clock of an ice-green dawn, with the mountain like an ashen wraith outside, and the wind still raging. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa There was something uncanny in the way in which Bright Sun would appear on noiseless footstep, like a wraith rising from the earth. The Last of the Chiefs A Story of the Great Sioux War Not a bit of it," I cried; "no wraith nor warlock this time, friend, but flesh and blood. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn They are generally sick, naturally, indescribably dirty and, in fact, mere wraiths of childhood. 'Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands Whichever way he turns there loom past wraiths, restless as ghosts of unburied Grecian slain. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 "For I was standing there thinking of you, a little white-faced fellow in a kilt, and here comes your elderly wraith at my back like one of Black Duncan's ghosts!" Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure Long and intently he stared at the spot—yes, there it was again,—a gossamer wraith, so illusive as to be scarcely distinguishable from the blue haze of early dawn. Prairie Flowers And on his psychical side he is not an unsubstantial wraith, but a being inconceivable apart from outward embodiment. Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics It stood for a moment, outlined against the orange-bosomed cloud, then, like an army of wraiths, the smoke came between and hid it. The Long Roll This irresponsible infatuation of his son will rise like Banquo wraith, a menacing interloper at all councils, doggedly irresponsible, yet insistent. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 Sometimes he would talk with these wraiths, and Miss Mary standing still in the lobby, her heart tortured by his loneliness, would hear him murmuring in these phantom visitations. Gilian The Dreamer His Fancy, His Love and Adventure He was satisfied that what he had supposed was the boy's wraith—the disembodied spirit of the lad he had thrown into the Hoghole—was the living Ezra Longman. Tess of the Storm Country Strong men staggered from weakness as they walked, women glided along like mournful white wraiths, even the little children in their quaint garb looked worn and emaciated. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims One of the women nursed a baby; they all looked down like wraiths upon the passing soldiers. The Long Roll We cannot keep any spiritual thing in human life, even the spirit of courtesy, as a disembodied wraith. Christianity and Progress Was it fancy that made her look like a wraith, and he like some handsome demon given to haunting churchyards? The Old Stone House and Other Stories I am purged till I am a wraith! The Years Between Then,— "The wraith of my departed priestly calling forbids me to phrase my answer just as I'd like best to do," he said. The Brentons The surgeons looked like wraiths, the nursing women had dark rings beneath their eyes, set burningly in pale faces, the negroes who valiantly helped had a greyish look. The Long Roll Quietly, like a warrior’s wraith, he sheathed his sword and betook himself to the covert of the peat-morass and the heather hill. Hunted and Harried Don’t go staring at her in grim silence as if she were a wraith; and, more particularly, don’t pretend to be fond of other girls, for thou didst make a pitiful mess of that attempt. Erling the Bold For an instant the colour forsook his cheeks, and he stared at me without speaking, rolling his eyes round as if he saw my wraith. Salt Water The Sea Life and Adventures of Neil D'Arcy the Midshipman “It’s my opinion that Mercer has seen his wraith,” he remarked sententiously. Hurricane Hurry Only to one as a wraith, a shadow, out of the ordinary pale of humanity, could she have looked like that! Vesty of the Basins She came down in the morning a mere wraith of beauty, as it seemed to the little servitor, shutting her lips hard, but ready to burst into a shower. Doom Castle The girl by his side was a wraith; they were dead, and this was some strange unaccountable happening in another world. The Black Cross "Some brandy, please," said a wraith of the Chemist's voice. The Girl in the Golden Atom The walls of the fortress are thin and the defenders the wraiths of a dim past. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 “King Olaf crossed himself and said— ‘I know that Odin the Great is dead; Sure is the triumph of our Faith, This one-eyed stranger was his wraith.’ Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 They swam into her recognition like wraiths upsprung, as it were, from the sand itself or exhaled upon a breath from the sea: at first she could not credit her vision. Doom Castle I spoke of how shrunken the wraith, how thin the echo, of men is after they are departed? Memories and Studies And if we are only wraiths, no weapons of your world can attack us.” The White Invaders Sometimes he smiled at her; sometimes at the wraith in the rafters. The Secret of the Storm Country |
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