Both Uses of
apparition
in
Heart of Darkness
- I could not hear a sound, but through my glasses I saw the thin arm extended commandingly, the lower jaw moving, the eyes of that apparition shining darkly far in its bony head that nodded with grotesque jerks.†
Chpt 3
- And from right to left along the lighted shore moved a wild and gorgeous apparition of a woman.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
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(apparition as in: a headless apparition) a ghostlike figure or its appearance