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apparition as in:  a headless apparition

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  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Mr. Malfoy then saw an extraordinary 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)
  • like the Nautilus sucked under the maelstrom, like his father descending into the pits: a one-way 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 her forehead he can see a hole blacker than the blackness around him, at the bottom of which teems a dark cit†   (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)
  • I thought he was a kind of apparition.†   (source)
  • She looked like a heavenly apparition ....a radiant silhouette with the moon behind her.†   (source)
  • That is how Amah found me: an apparition covered with blood.†   (source)
  • "You little monster!" hissed Crumlin, squinting and blinking as though he'd been confronted with a ghostly apparition.†   (source)
  • Daylight, and the banality of family small talk, would dispel whatever impact she had made as a ghostly illuminated apparition.†   (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)
  • The two were identical except that the apparition seemed purer and glowed white-hot.†   (source)
  • I shivered, remembering the apparition that had appeared in the sky over Washington, D.C.—a writhing giant snake.†   (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)
  • Pity draws from 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)
  • "NO!" cried the bishop, red in the face now, a consummately consistent apparition.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The apparition lasted only a few seconds.†   (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)
  • Her mother also rummaged in the kitchen or walked like some midnight apparition through the empty rooms.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • On the occasions when she truly needed him she would see him, not as an apparition but as flesh and blood.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • In the past, Jeremy had investigated seven different ghostly apparitions; four had ended up in his October column.†   (source)
  • An ethereal Robyn grins, her ecru face distorting into a vampirelike apparition.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Glancing around, Clary saw that no one else on the hospital steps or standing by its doors seemed to notice the apparition.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • But if one of the playful apparitions got close to us, I pinched it.†   (source)
  • Popped up right in front of me, like an apparition or something.†   (source)
  • It was not jamais vu, since the apparition was not of someone, or something, familiar appearing to him in an unfamiliar guise.†   (source)
  • The long, sweaty hike, ghostly apparitions, and beer puke were forgotten.†   (source)
  • For a moment I thought she must be an apparition conjured from within my muddled brain.†   (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)
  • The Demon was as pale as an apparition and radiated a faint luminescence within the carriage's dark interior.†   (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)
  • The apparition grasped his hand in return, pumping it frenetically.†   (source)
  • Miss Rachel's switch made perfect contact with the sacred apparition's behind.†   (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)
  • Contrary to my ghostly appearance, I'm not an apparition.†   (source)
  • My sister was gone, my grandmother a fleeting Sunday apparition, and God, if not dead, far removed from my concern.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • "You know of us," Cassius replied to the apparition, "yet you are unknown to us.†   (source)
  • Lips parted as if to speak, speechless with surprise, she gazed at him as though he were an apparition.†   (source)
  • In the dark mildewed wing, where the rotting mosquito nets hang, lives the apparition of the Dutch governor's daughter.†   (source)
  • Over time they resembled not so much men, but crazed apparitions.†   (source)
  • The gatehouse towers emerged from the rain like ghosts, hazy grey apparitions that grew more solid the closer they rode.†   (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)
  • They were nearing the lines now; men began rising out of the ground, ragged apparitions.†   (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)
  • 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 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)
  • 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)
  • The apparition wept, and the rain, now more intense, kissed and watered it.†   (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-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)
    apparition = ghostlike figure
  • 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)
  • In the darkness, she glowed faintly—a seven-foot-tall apparition of ugliness.†   (source)
  • He glanced at the apparition in the mist and snorted.†   (source)
  • This was too theatrical to be true, yet there they were: sudden apparitions, like Martians.†   (source)
  • He was like an apparition—there was something unreal about him.†   (source)
  • I tell you, I'll be glad when he's got his Apparition test.†   (source)
  • And there is the apparition of Armand, that power, that heartbreaking clarity.†   (source)
  • Teresa kept walking in silence, floating up the mountainside like an apparition.†   (source)
  • And I could hear it dropping down toward us, an apparition of howling U.S. airpower in the night.†   (source)
  • But here it was, an apparition as inhuman as it was purposeful.†   (source)
  • Angry, starving, sinister apparitions of people who'd never been happy when alive, much less dead.†   (source)
  • Robert Langdon and Vittoria Vetra looked like apparitions as they staggered into the library.†   (source)
  • But beyond that face was the apparition of another girl.†   (source)
  • Not even Mr. Fish had known who the fearful apparition was.†   (source)
  • Even now, he could be bringing other Death Eaters in there by Apparition.†   (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)
  • The apparition lasted only a few seconds.†   (source)
  • I thought Mad-Eye was going to come and take me by Side Along-Apparition?†   (source)
  • Several hours later, there came to my mother's room the second fearful apparition.†   (source)
  • It's not easy, Apparition, and when it's not done property it can lead to nasty complications.†   (source)
  • Braced this time, Harry was ready for the Apparition, but still found it unpleasant.†   (source)
  • I believe there's a handy wood they're using as the Apparition point.†   (source)
  • With the Floo Network under observation, and Apparition impossible within the grounds—†   (source)
  • But beyond that face was the apparition of another girl.†   (source)
  • I just can't get the hang of Apparition.†   (source)
  • I'd have that Apparition Test in the bag.†   (source)
  • And then, quickly, the apparition shifts.†   (source)
  • Then the apparition floated up the seawall and stopped in front of them.†   (source)
  • Drizzt took another step to the side, further away from the apparition's line of sight.†   (source)
  • How were they to know if this was their very own Hema, or an apparition?†   (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)
  • The room burns with light once again, and the ghostly apparitions vanish from the walls.†   (source)
  • Max glanced back at Astaroth, but the apparition was already fading.†   (source)
  • By the time Annabeth and Hazel caught up to her, the ghostly apparition was only a few yards away.†   (source)
  • The happiest sort of apparition, coming down the rutted path like a pop-art object.†   (source)
  • If they did, or if they caught the apparition, they would quickly realize they had been fooled.†   (source)
  • An apparition, terror projected to a point, Tres bien.†   (source)
  • She was frightened, half-convinced she was confronting some monstrous apparition.†   (source)
  • So interested were they that they swam in for a closer view of this apparition on the shore.†   (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)
  • We swerved into an industrial area of dilapidated warehouses, the smoking apparitions still closing in behind us.†   (source)
  • My name is Wilkie Twycross and I shall be your Ministry-Apparition Instructor for the next twelve weeks.†   (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)
  • You don't mess around with Apparition.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • As I continued down the hallway, other students began to materialize in front of their lockers, ghostly apparitions that rapidly solidified.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • They could hear Ursula fighting against the laws of creation to maintain the line, and Jose Arcadio Buendia searching for the mythical truth of the great inventions, and Fernanda praying, and Colonel Aureliano 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)
  • 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)
  • "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)
  • An 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)
  • She left everything in the hands of Nana and the other servants, and immersed herself in the world of apparitions and psychic experiments.†   (source)
  • He realized that Clara did not belong to him and that if she continued living in a world of apparitions, three-legged tables that moved of their own volition, and cards that spelled out the future, she probably never would.†   (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)
  • 1 hope to be able to prepare you for your Apparition test in this time —' 'Malfoy, be quiet and pay attention!' barked Professor McGonagall.†   (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)
  • It was a world in which time was not marked by calendars or watches and objects had a life of their own, in which apparitions sat at the table and conversed with human beings, the past and the future formed part of a single unit, and the reality of the present was a kaleidoscope of jumbled mirrors where everything and anything could happen.†   (source)
  • Three lessons on, Apparition was proving as difficult as ever, though a few more people had managed to Splinch themselves.†   (source)
  • "Whoa!" whispered Seamus, and he, Dean, and Neville put their heads a little closer to hear what Apparition felt like.†   (source)
  • For the rest of the day, Harry was besieged with requests from the other sixth years to describe the sensation of Apparition.†   (source)
  • "So — Apparition," said Ron, his tone making it perfectly plain that Harry was not to mention what had just happened.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Side-Along-Apparition, you know.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • The Demon was in his spectral form, no more than a pale apparition walking across the battlefield amid all the destruction.†   (source)
  • Still, the two-legs seemed impressed by the apparition, and it was two-legs they were trying to fool.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • Above me, I caught a glimpse of the weird gray apparition—a girl on a horse, circling like a vulture, watching.†   (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)
  • Each one cracked down the middle, and ghostly apparitions appeared from the stone like locusts breaking out of their shells.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • He was standing across the street under the lamp for several minutes, and then he crossed to the corner, where he stood for several minutes more, and he is now standing outside with his face pressed to the window.... 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)
  • It was an apparition.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • An apparition!†   (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)
  • 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)
  • I caught a glimpse of the smoky apparition—the girl on the horse diving toward me at a full gallop, her hand outstretched.†   (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)
  • Then, in the air next to the weapon, a transparent apparition appeared: a perfect, glowing likeness of Brisingr free of its sheath.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
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