All 4 Uses of
specter
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "The ladder was against the straw-rick and is burnt to a cinder," said a spectre-like form in the smoke.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- Joseph Poorgrass looked round upon his sad burden as it loomed faintly through the flowering laurustinus, then at the unfathomable gloom amid the high trees on each hand, indistinct, shadowless, and spectre-like in their monochrome of grey.†
Chpt 40-42
- He could put off the consideration of any particular spectre till the matter had become old and softened by time.†
Chpt 46-48
- Moreover, it was not at all unlikely that his wife would fail at her farming, if she had not already done so; and he would then become liable for her maintenance: and what a life such a future of poverty with her would be, the spectre of Fanny constantly between them, harrowing his temper and embittering her words!†
Chpt 49-51
Definition:
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(specter as in: specter of national poverty) a frightening or disturbing mental image or possibility
or:
a ghostly appearing image