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apparition
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apparition as in:  a headless apparition

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  • An Apparition at the Door  (source)
    Apparition = ghostlike figure
  • Every night, in his dreams, an apparition would form in his head and burn there.  (source)
  • Phantasms specters ghouls visitants post-terrestrials apparitions, Lidewij.  (source)
    apparitions = ghostlike figures
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  • 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)
    apparition = ghostlike figure
  • It looked through the windows, trying to find a way inside, and as it simultaneously thickened and spread, it turned the trail of humans into apparitions.  (source)
    apparitions = ghostlike figures
  • "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)
    apparitional = related to a ghostlike figure
  • The train could be stopped with a red flag, but by ordinary it appeared out of the devastated hills with apparitionlike suddenness and wailing like a banshee, athwart and past that little less-than-village like a forgotten bead from a broken string.†  (source)
    apparitionlike = like a ghost
  • Blinded by the glare of the headlights and confused by the incessant groaning of the horns, the apparition stood swaying for a moment before he perceived the man in the duster.  (source)
    apparition = ghostlike figure
  • In which she swears that she never saw familiar spirits, apparitions, nor any manifest of the Devil.  (source)
    apparitions = ghostlike figures
  • 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)
    apparitional = related to a ghostlike figure
  • Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?  (source)
    apparition = ghostlike figure
  • The hair must be smoothed down after whatever apparitions have made it stand on end during the night, the expression of staring disbelief washed from the eyes.†  (source)
    apparitions = ghostlike figures or their appearances
  • ...our door had been suddenly dashed open, and that a huge man had framed himself in the aperture. His costume was a peculiar mixture of ... "Which of you is Holmes?" asked this apparition.  (source)
    apparition = a person with an unexpected or strange appearance
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