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  • Almondine poked her nose into the apparition of her own breath while Edgar watched a snowflake dissolve in midair, one and then another.†   (source)
  • 1923 -- An Actress, an Apparition, an Apiary†   (source)
  • I stared up blearily, thinking she must be an apparition, some hallucination of my solitude.†   (source)
  • Angry, starving, sinister apparitions of people who'd never been happy when alive, much less dead.†   (source)
  • Your avatar wasn't actually there, and so it appeared to other avatars as a slightly transparent apparition.†   (source)
  • The gray shape of the city vanished in the night's onset like an apparition and he lit the little lamp and set it back out of the wind.†   (source)
  • An apparition?†   (source)
  • And now she longed to touch him again, to prove to herself again that he was really here, that he was not a dream, an apparition.†   (source)
  • I thought he was a kind of apparition.†   (source)
  • She looked like a heavenly apparition …. a radiant silhouette with the moon behind her.†   (source)
  • They drove away leaving that name, Castor, hanging in the air like some horrible apparition, like the key to a lock, like the solution to an unsolved crime.†   (source)
  • …dive from Zollverein past Schulpforta, past the horrors of Russia and Ukraine, past the mother and daughter in Vienna, his ambition and shame becoming one and the same, to the nadir in this basement on the rim of the continent where the apparition chants nonsense—Frau Schwartzenberger walks toward him, transforming herself as she approaches from woman to girl—her hair becomes red again, her skin smooths, a seven-year-old girl presses her face up against his, and in the center of…†   (source)
  • But here it was, an apparition as inhuman as it was purposeful.†   (source)
  • That is how Amah found me: an apparition covered with blood.†   (source)
  • And there, like an apparition, an image from an unknown past showed Gregory Illea with a tight expression on his face, his suit crisp and his stance tall.†   (source)
  • "I mean," said Hobie — he'd wiped the black off his hands, was reaching for his brush with a sort of apparitional fixity, like a ghost intent upon its task—"the sales end has never been my bailiwick, you know that, but I've been in this business a long time.†   (source)
  • Ten thousand feet above, the huge backlit spike of Ama Dablam hovered over the head of the valley like an apparition And seven thousand feet higher still, dwarfing Ama Dablain, was the icy thrust of Everest itself, all but hidden behind Nuptse.†   (source)
  • The two were identical except that the apparition seemed purer and glowed white-hot.†   (source)
  • July had brought us only the strange apparition of the family Fowles, and in its aftermath, the conviction in all our separate minds that their visit could only have been a dream.†   (source)
  • "You little monster!" hissed Crumlin, squinting and blinking as though he'd been confronted with a ghostly apparition.†   (source)
  • "NO!" cried the bishop, red in the face now, a consummately consistent apparition.†   (source)
  • And I could hear it dropping down toward us, an apparition of howling U.S. airpower in the night.†   (source)
  • And that was when they encountered the dog, like an apparition from nowhere, ugly, unidentifiable, a piglike snout, glittering eyes, and yellowed teeth.†   (source)
  • We swerved into an industrial area of dilapidated warehouses, the smoking apparitions still closing in behind us.†   (source)
  • …all these opposing elements and courses through me like an uncooked stew, mixing and confusing the paradoxes, because now this man I once admired, if not revered, I once feared, if not hated, stands here, a fragment of the race, drunk, agonized, crushed, and I can't hate him any more; I can't see him as the manifestation of craziness and power he once possessed; he's a caricature, an apparition, but also more like me, capable of so much ache beneath the exterior of so much strength.†   (source)
  • Yetta's brain was still trying to make sense of what she was seeing: She was working on a theory that maybe these women were apparitions, hallucinations brought on by her having skipped breakfast.†   (source)
  • That signal would bring more and more wretched figures streaming up from all sides, and the good Samaritan would find himself besieged, hemmed in by ragged apparitions spraying him with tubercular saliva; by children covered with oozing sores who were pushed into his path, by gesticulating stumps of arms, blinded eyes, toothless, stinking open mouths, all begging for mercy at this, the last moment of their lives, as if their end could be delayed only by instant support.†   (source)
  • Glancing around, Clary saw that no one else on the hospital steps or standing by its doors seemed to notice the apparition.†   (source)
  • On the occasions when she truly needed him she would see him, not as an apparition but as flesh and blood.†   (source)
  • The apparition lasted only a few seconds.†   (source)
  • The long, sweaty hike, ghostly apparitions, and beer puke were forgotten.†   (source)
  • But if one of the playful apparitions got close to us, I pinched it.†   (source)
  • Miss Rachel's switch made perfect contact with the sacred apparition's behind.†   (source)
  • The fine lawn surrounding the Clutter house was also newly green, and trespassers upon it, women anxious to have a closer look at the uninhabited home, crept across the grass and peered through the windows as though hopeful but fearful of discerning, in the gloom beyond the pleasant flower-print curtains, grim apparitions.†   (source)
  • It was an apparition.†   (source)
  • The dog he had grown up with, the dog who had pulled a yelling, gleeful five-year-old Brett patiently around and around the dooryard on his Flexible Flyer, budded into a harness Joe had made in the shop, the dog who had been waiting calmly by the mailbox every afternoon during school for the bus, come shine or shower … that dog bore only the slightest resemblance to the muddy, matted apparition slowly materializing from the morning mist.†   (source)
  • When he had spoken of his deliverance by the great apparition in the night, Fiver had listened attentively and asked one question, "Did it make a noise?"†   (source)
  • Popped up right in front of me, like an apparition or something.†   (source)
  • The happiest sort of apparition, coming down the rutted path like a pop-art object.†   (source)
  • She walks out toward them, an apparition in white and blue velvet, her head held high as they stare in awe at her, the goddess.†   (source)
  • Halfway down the hallway to his room, a skinny red-haired apparition with bulging blue eyes burst out the swinging kitchen door and clutched Mortenson's sleeve.†   (source)
  • An ethereal Robyn grins, her ecru face distorting into a vampirelike apparition.†   (source)
  • The apparition grasped his hand in return, pumping it frenetically.†   (source)
  • And there is the apparition of Armand, that power, that heartbreaking clarity.†   (source)
  • Her mother also rummaged in the kitchen or walked like some midnight apparition through the empty rooms.†   (source)
  • It was not jamais vu, since the apparition was not of someone, or something, familiar appearing to him in an unfamiliar guise.†   (source)
  • She probably thought the apparition was just the result of seeing too many times at once, the muddled images of this place in twenty different decades.†   (source)
  • An apparition! she thought.†   (source)
  • In the past, Jeremy had investigated seven different ghostly apparitions; four had ended up in his October column.†   (source)
  • Contrary to my ghostly appearance, I'm not an apparition.†   (source)
  • Lips parted as if to speak, speechless with surprise, she gazed at him as though he were an apparition.†   (source)
  • My sister was gone, my grandmother a fleeting Sunday apparition, and God, if not dead, far removed from my concern.†   (source)
  • At the house of the Shaper, people come and go, solemn faced, treading softly, their heads bowed and their hands folded for fear of sending dreadful apparitions through his dreams.†   (source)
  • Max glanced back at Astaroth, but the apparition was already fading.†   (source)
  • So he called the man over for a chat, just to ease his own mind, just to make sure, I think, that this was merely a farmer and not a malevolent apparition.†   (source)
  • The two men beside him were watching the black shapes with a look of growing terror, as if some supernatural apparition were advancing upon them out of the desert night.†   (source)
  • In the dark mildewed wing, where the rotting mosquito nets hang, lives the apparition of the Dutch governor's daughter.†   (source)
  • I realize, probably too late, that I wish to leave something of myself, a small service to Bedley Run, and not simply a respectable headstone, but after seeing the generic, forlorn closedness of the store, I feel precipitously insubstantial behind the wheel, like an apparition who has visited too long.†   (source)
  • He backed away, lurching into a sideslip and a forward walk, obviously deciding that the apparition halfway up the wall was the result of his pressured labors.†   (source)
  • Over time they resembled not so much men, but crazed apparitions.†   (source)
  • "You know of us," Cassius replied to the apparition, "yet you are unknown to us.†   (source)
  • The gatehouse towers emerged from the rain like ghosts, hazy grey apparitions that grew more solid the closer they rode.†   (source)
  • They were nearing the lines now; men began rising out of the ground, ragged apparitions.†   (source)
  • A few other customers were in the place and they all stopped and gaped at Eugene and the children as though they were apparitions come haunting.†   (source)
  • So interested were they that they swam in for a closer view of this apparition on the shore.†   (source)
  • Lolla-Wossiky felt the boy's terror at the sight of the apparition he had become: a bright and shining Red man, one-eyed, with a sharp knife in his hand.†   (source)
  • I had never heard of Rudolf Hoss before that day, but through her understated, simple eloquence she had caused him to exist as vividly as any apparition that had stalked my most neurotic dreams.†   (source)
  • He disappeared into the trees swiftly, an apparition, a passing thought.†   (source)
  • Both the old man and the child stared ahead as if they were awaiting an apparition.†   (source)
  • The apparition wept, and the rain, now more intense, kissed and watered it.†   (source)
  • The-man-in-an-overcoat-with-a-hat-without-a-head is a somewhat surprising apparition and will doubtless produce a certain sensation.†   (source)
  • They arise no more; we are dead and they stand remote on the horizon, they are a mysterious reflection, an apparition, that haunts us, that we fear and love without hope.   (source)
  • And at night, waking out of a dream, overwhelmed and bewitched by the crowding apparitions, a man perceives with alarm how slight is the support, how thin the boundary that divides him from the darkness.   (source)
    apparitions = ghostlike figures
  • Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?   (source)
    apparition = ghostlike figure
  • The apparition walked backward from him; and at every step it took, the window raised itself a little, so that when the spectre reached it, it was wide open.   (source)
  • Mr. Malfoy then saw an extraordinary apparition.†   (source)
  • He was like an apparition—there was something unreal about him.†   (source)
  • I thought Mad-Eye was going to come and take me by Side Along-Apparition?†   (source)
  • This was too theatrical to be true, yet there they were: sudden apparitions, like Martians.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the apparition in the mist and snorted.†   (source)
  • Teresa kept walking in silence, floating up the mountainside like an apparition.†   (source)
  • I'd have that Apparition Test in the bag.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra looked like apparitions as they staggered into the library.†   (source)
  • The apparition lasted only a few seconds.†   (source)
  • With the Floo Network under observation, and Apparition impossible within the grounds-†   (source)
  • Several hours later, there came to my mother's room the second fearful apparition.†   (source)
  • I tell you, I'll be glad when he's got his Apparition test.†   (source)
  • I just can't get the hang of Apparition.†   (source)
  • Not even Mr. Fish had known who the fearful apparition was.†   (source)
  • I believe there's a handy wood they're using as the Apparition point.†   (source)
  • Even now, he could be bringing other Death Eaters in there by Apparition.†   (source)
  • But beyond that face was the apparition of another girl.†   (source)
  • It's not easy, Apparition, and when it's not done property it can lead to nasty complications.†   (source)
  • But beyond that face was the apparition of another girl.†   (source)
  • 1 hope to be able to prepare you for your Apparition test in this time —'†   (source)
  • Ron was not the only one to be excited at the prospect of Apparition.†   (source)
  • "You have not, of course, passed your Apparition Test," he said.†   (source)
  • Braced this time, Harry was ready for the Apparition, but still found it unpleasant.†   (source)
  • A shimmering golden apparition rose from Lars's body—his soul, I guessed.†   (source)
  • Moreover, the apparition gave Eragon strength and speed equal to those of the elves themselves.†   (source)
  • Then the apparition floated up the seawall and stopped in front of them.†   (source)
  • And then, quickly, the apparition shifts.†   (source)
  • In the darkness, she glowed faintly—a seven-foot-tall apparition of ugliness.†   (source)
  • The room burns with light once again, and the ghostly apparitions vanish from the walls.†   (source)
  • Drizzt took another step to the side, further away from the apparition's line of sight.†   (source)
  • By the time Annabeth and Hazel caught up to her, the ghostly apparition was only a few yards away.†   (source)
  • If they did, or if they caught the apparition, they would quickly realize they had been fooled.†   (source)
  • How were they to know if this was their very own Hema, or an apparition?†   (source)
  • For a moment I thought she must be an apparition conjured from within my muddled brain.†   (source)
  • An apparition, terror projected to a point, Tres bien.†   (source)
  • She was frightened, half-convinced she was confronting some monstrous apparition.†   (source)
  • Stunned, the agent watched as the two apparitions circled the room on the conveyor loop and then disappeared headfirst into a narrow hole in the wall.†   (source)
  • Each one cracked down the middle, and ghostly apparitions appeared from the stone like locusts breaking out of their shells.†   (source)
  • Side-Along-Apparition, you know.†   (source)
  • And, of course, the most famous apparition of all, reported numerous times in the Capitol basement—an ephemeral black cat that prowled the substructure's eerie maze of narrow passageways and cubicles.†   (source)
  • She had suffered a similar fright in her youth, when she had seen Florentino Ariza at the foot of her bed, but that apparition had been full of love, not hate.†   (source)
  • He saw only a flash of pale skin and enormous eyes—the haunted image of an apparition—and cried out, tried to run, but it was too late.†   (source)
  • Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.†   (source)
  • As I continued down the hallway, other students began to materialize in front of their lockers, ghostly apparitions that rapidly solidified.†   (source)
  • He watched as they dove through the canvas straps of their portals and disappeared, until all that remained inside the barn was the apparition of the ether fumes, quavering and rising under that single hot light bulb.†   (source)
  • Every few weeks he turned up without warning, a sudden apparition in rotten boots and sweat-stained fedora, smoking Tiparillos in my doorway and demanding money for things that were already ours, donated by the Mission League.†   (source)
  • I guess the apparition of Billy Shelton was standing hard by my shoulder, trying to frighten the life out of me and ready to throw me out of the navy if I blew it.†   (source)
  • Weaving through the traffic, closing in on us rapidly, were three glittery, vaguely humanoid apparitions—like billowing plumes from smoke grenades touched by King Midas.†   (source)
  • The horizontal apparition hovered in the sky without growing larger, and though he was beginning to understand its meaning, it was, as in a dream, impossible to begin to respond or move his limbs.†   (source)
  • They could not count on elfish Apparition being free from the same flaw that had taken Yaxley to Grimmauld Place on the hem of Hermione's sleeve.†   (source)
  • You don't mess around with Apparition.†   (source)
  • As long as Mr. Cattermole had his wits about him, he'll have transported Mrs. Cattermole by Side-Along-Apparition and they'll be fleeing the country right now with their children.†   (source)
  • Every morning they made sure that they had removed all clues to their presence, then set off to find another lonely and secluded spot, traveling by Apparition to more woods, to the shadowy crevices of cliffs, to purple moors, gorse-covered mountainsides, and once a sheltered and pebbly cove.†   (source)
  • We know they've stopped Apparition in and out of the Ministry; We know only the most senior Ministry members are al-lowed to connect their homes to the Floo Network now, because Ron heard those two Unspeakables complaining about it.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the day, Harry was besieged with requests from the other sixth years to describe the sensation of Apparition.†   (source)
  • Three lessons on, Apparition was proving as difficult as ever, though a few more people had managed to Splinch themselves.†   (source)
  • My name is Wilkie Twycross and I shall be your Ministry-Apparition Instructor for the next twelve weeks.†   (source)
  • "So — Apparition," said Ron, his tone making it perfectly plain that Harry was not to mention what had just happened.†   (source)
  • "Whoa!" whispered Seamus, and he, Dean, and Neville put their heads a little closer to hear what Apparition felt like.†   (source)
  • Hermione, who had now achieved Apparition twice, was a little more confident, but Harry, who would not be seventeen for an-other four months, could not take the test whether ready or not.†   (source)
  • There had been a cer-tain amount of excitement earlier when they had come back from dinner to find a new sign on the notice board that announced the date for their Apparition Test.†   (source)
  • Having wasted a lot of time worrying aloud about Apparition, Ron was now struggling to finish a viciously difficult essay for Snape that Harry and Hermione had already completed.†   (source)
  • For a moment, Harry thought that his inexpert Apparition had thrown Dumbledore off-balance; then he saw his face, paler and damper than ever in the distant light of a streetlamp.†   (source)
  • What with Apparition lessons and Quidditch and Ron being poisoned and getting his skull cracked and his determination to find out what Draco Malfoy was up to, Harry had almost forgotten about the memory Dumbledore had asked him to extract from Professor Slughorn.†   (source)
  • The best way of finding out would be to tail him, bur even with the Invisibility Cloak this was an impractical idea; he had lessons, Quidditch practice, homework and Apparition; he could not follow Malfoy around school all day wilhout his absence being remarked upon, 'Ready?' he said to Ron.†   (source)
  • Hermione and Ron were both clutching a Ministry of Magic leaflet — Common Apparition Mistakes and How to Avoid Them — for they were taking their tests that very afternoon, but by and large the leaflets had not proved soothing to the nerves.†   (source)
  • Rain lashed against the high windows and the enchanted ceiling swirled darkly above them as they assembled in front of Professors McGonagall, Snape, Flitwick and Sprout — the Heads of House — and a small wizard whom Harry took to be the Apparition Instructor from the Ministry.†   (source)
  • Review the security arrangements around your house, making sure that all family members are aware of emergency measures such as Shield and Disillusionment Charms, and, in the case of underage family members, Side-Along-Apparition.†   (source)
  • APPARITION LESSONS If you are seventeen years of age, or will turn seventeen on or before the 31st August next, you are eligible for a twelve-week course of Apparition Lessons from a Ministry of Magic Apparition instructor.†   (source)
  • The upshot of this was that the sixth-years' first Apparition lesson, which was sched-uled for a Saturday morning so that no normal lessons would be missed, took place in the Great Hall instead of in the grounds.†   (source)
  • They spent most of their dinner roundly abusing the Apparition examiner, and Ron looked fractionally more cheerful by the time they set off back to the common room, now discussing the continuing problem of Slughorn and the memory.†   (source)
  • As the dragon's baleful eye fell upon him, Eragon knew that the creature was no mere apparition but a conscious being bound and sustained by magic.†   (source)
  • As he approached the fiery gray apparition, he was fairly sure it was a garden-variety wraith—a lost soul who had died in pain.†   (source)
  • Melissa did not appear in full possession of her senses, I must say, clearly taken aback by that translucent apparition of our dear friend.†   (source)
  • He must have appeared to them some apparition out of the vanished past because he jostled the other with his elbow and they both looked.†   (source)
  • I shivered, remembering the apparition that had appeared in the sky over Washington, D.C.—a writhing giant snake.†   (source)
  • The Demon was as pale as an apparition and radiated a faint luminescence within the carriage's dark interior.†   (source)
  • He was wise in doing so, because the woman had thought that he was an apparition as she saw the dirty, shadowy figure with his head and clothing dirty with blood and touched with the solemnity of death come through the door.†   (source)
  • When Saphira was ready to leave the red-chrysalis-tent, Blodhgarm again summoned up the apparition of Eragon and placed it on Saphira's back.†   (source)
  • He was looking at a ghost of himself, a haunting apparition from years ago come back to stalk him, no matter who was the hunter now.†   (source)
  • Later on, when Aureliano Triste told how he had seen her changed into an apparition with leathery skin and a few golden threads on her skull, Amaranta was not surprised because the specter described was exactly what she had been imagining for some time.†   (source)
  • Apparently pleased with Orik's answers, the apparition extended his glowing arms and placed his forefingers on either side of Orik's bare head.†   (source)
  • It seemed an eternity that he watched it, and that shimmer of light now hung behind his head like the backdrop of an apparition.†   (source)
  • The Demon was in his spectral form, no more than a pale apparition walking across the battlefield amid all the destruction.†   (source)
  • As one the three companions swung around to meet the surprised gaze of a strange apparition: a smallish man, seemingly cloaked in rags and wearing an outlandishly tall pointed hat.†   (source)
  • The chaplain felt most deceitful presiding at funerals, and it would not have astonished him to learn that the apparition in the tree that day was a manifestation of the Almighty's censure for the blasphemy and pride inherent in his function.†   (source)
  • I thought of Angeline and her pup cowering at the bottom of the den where they had taken refuge from the thundering apparition of the aircraft, and I was shamed.†   (source)
  • He had seen her as a luminous summer apparition, removed from the brutal demands of the world, different from all other women he had known.†   (source)
  • "That it is, but it appears it belongs to this woman," Del said, gesturing toward Genevieve's apparition, "who the two of you don't seem particularly surprised to see."†   (source)
  • And then the dark body began to loom like some apparition of the mists, long wings bending and flaps extended and wheels breaking contact and then the gear coming up and the smoky spews of trailing black alcohol and the storm-roar shaking the flats.†   (source)
  • An almost supernatural quality to the moment half convinced Joe that she was an apparition, that her touch had been so achingly gentle precisely because it was barely real, an ectoplasmic caress.†   (source)
  • I caught a glimpse of the smoky apparition—the girl on the horse diving toward me at a full gallop, her hand outstretched.†   (source)
  • When one of the masons told her that the house was full of apparitions and that the only way to drive them out was to look for the treasures they had left buried, she replied amid loud laughter that she did not think it was right for men to be superstitious.†   (source)
  • Saphira waited while the black-blue-wolf-hair-elf created a water-shadow-ghost of Eragon and the apparition walked out of Eragon's tent and climbed onto her back.†   (source)
  • Above me, I caught a glimpse of the weird gray apparition—a girl on a horse, circling like a vulture, watching.†   (source)
  • Still, the two-legs seemed impressed by the apparition, and it was two-legs they were trying to fool.†   (source)
  • I don't generally spend my time thinking about women, but only a fool could have failed to spot that apparition, who caused a stir wherever she went, and tied up traffic, with her incredible green hair, which framed her face like a fantastic hat, her fairy-tale manner, and her special way of moving as if she were flying.†   (source)
  • The apparition was painfully thin, swaying, but resolute, and it seemed a miracle that it was capable of speech, when it said in a voice heavy with fatigue and sadness: "I desire to begin the time of discernment, the time of listening to God as He speaks in and through the Community.†   (source)
  • There was absolutely no talk on the river coast of any strange apparition to Babette Freniere, but after the first mourning and sad talk of the women left all alone, she became the scandal of the neighborhood because she chose to run the plantation on her own.†   (source)
  • Her hair blew gently in the wind, as if she was just a woman sitting on a bench at the bus stop, instead of an apparition sitting on a headstone in a graveyard.†   (source)
  • We think the objects flying around the room and the ectoplasmic apparitions are caused by these children, by their unconscious exercise of powers they don't even know they have.†   (source)
  • There is something apparitional in the moment and it chills and excites him and sends his hand into his pocket to touch the bleak pages hidden there.†   (source)
  • Of course the film was strange at first, elusive in its references and filled with baroque apparitions and hard to adapt to—you wouldn't want it any other way Overcomposed close-ups, momentous gesturing, actors trailing their immense bended shadows and there was something to study in every frame, the camera placement, the shapes and planes and then the juxtaposed shots, the sense of rhythmic contradiction, it was all spaces and volumes, it was tempo, mass and stress.†   (source)
  • They were all dressed in black, as was their at-home custom, and in the dark the, black shapes of their dresses massed together with their raven hair, so that in the glow of the candles their faces appeared as five soft, shimmering apparitions, each uniquely sad, each uniquely courageous.†   (source)
  • In the dim half-light of the tent, her face appeared to float against a featureless black background, like an apparition conjured out of the night.†   (source)
  • Lena's kind did show up on film, only she was shimmering, transparent, as if from the waist down she had already begun to dissolve into some kind of ghostly apparition.†   (source)
  • …Buendia stupefying himself with the deception of war and the little gold fishes, and Aureliano Segundo dying of solitude in the turmoil of his debauches, and then they learned that dominant obsessions can prevail against death and they were happy again with the certainty that they would go on loving each other in their shape as apparitions long after other species of future animals would steal from the insects the paradise of misery that the insects were finally stealing from man.†   (source)
  • In the past few clays Clara had reverted to her visionary tasks, speaking with apparitions and spending hours writing in her notebooks.†   (source)
  • Visually, the apparition was flawless, but it had no mind of its own, and if any of Galbatorix's agents tried to eavesdrop upon Eragon's thoughts, they would discover the deceit forthwith.†   (source)
  • Therefore, the success of the ploy depended upon Saphira ferrying the apparition through the camp and out of sight as quickly as possible, and upon the hope that Eragon's reputation was so formidable, it would discourage clandestine observers from attempting to glean information about the Varden from his consciousness, for fear of his vengeance.†   (source)
  • She left everything in the hands of Nana and the other servants, and immersed herself in the world of apparitions and psychic experiments.†   (source)
  • The apparition swerved to avoid the darts and, seemingly by accident, crashed into one of the six green elf towers scattered throughout Uru'baen.†   (source)
  • Silent as apparitions, the elves stopped underneath the boughs of the encircling trees and stared at him and Saphira but made no move to approach or to assist them.†   (source)
  • The apparition lasted for a moment longer; then Glaedr released Eragon's mind, and the valley once more appeared as it was.†   (source)
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