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Definition
a mental image of something frightening or disturbing
or:
a ghostly appearing image
or:
a ghostly appearing image
- It may be that his pathway through life was haunted thus by a spectre that had stolen out from among his thoughts.Chapter 17 -- The Pastor and his Parishioner (5% in)
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