en
apparition

Meaning: en
a ghost or a ghost-like image of a person who is dead
I look out on the brilliant heaven, and see a milky way of powdery splendour wandering through it, and clusters and knots of stars and planets shining serenely in the blue frosty spaces; and the armed apparition of Orion, his spear pointing away into immeasurable space, gleaming overhead; and the familiar constellation of the Plough dipping down into the west; and I think when I go in again that there is one Christmas the less between me and my grave.
Lucy seemed stiffened to stone by this unexpected apparition.
Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?
Tom thought he saw an apparition in a white dress at the end of the long, dark hallway, but it turned out it was only Mary.
I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.
Oh!! I just saw an apparition!!
White House guests and staff have reported seeing apparitions in the Lincoln Bedroom, which President Abraham Lincoln used as an office.
The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe.
All evening, though I tried to think of other things, my mind would turn to the apparition at the window.
As the whirl of dust drew nearer to the solitary bluff upon which the two castaways were reposing, the canvas-covered tilts of waggons and the figures of armed horsemen began to show up through the haze, and the apparition revealed itself as being a great caravan upon its journey for the West.
Added on 2021-11-14 | by Riley | View: 136

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