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séance as in: medium conducted a séance
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the séance was held in the medium's parlor
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Since his death, a séance has been held each Halloween night to see if the legendary magician, Harry Houdini, would try to contact the living.
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She placed her fingers flat on the table edge, like someone at a seance, then, almost instantly, closed her hands—her nails were bitten down to the quick. (source)seance = a meeting in which people sit around a table with a spiritualist and attempt to communicate with the dead
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The candles sat between them so that they looked like three men preparing for a seance—the judge in his silk robe, Nels in his bow tie with its touch of the theatrical, Alvin Hooks dapper and elegant, his legs crossed, one knee over the other.† (source)
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He's like Mama and the rest of them, I suppose he goes to their table-rappings and seances.† (source)
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What did you do, hold seances?† (source)
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Just as the voice in the seance was given to me.† (source)
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He felt as if he had left the great séance and all the murmuring ghosts.† (source)
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Everywhere we went there used to be these welcoming seances d'animation, tribal dancing.† (source)
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A WOMAN'S COURAGE Thus ended this memorable seance.† (source)
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Robert Radebaugh loved the memory of the night Mike organized a séance in his tent.† (source)
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I've analysed lots of these seances, and I've never got answers that someone in the group mightn't have known or guessed— though sometimes they weren't aware of the fact.† (source)
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We shall have to appoint a special seance, then, beginning early.† (source)
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"My mother attended a Spiritualism séance," Cecily says.† (source)
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They had all the afternoon to be together, and nearly all of the night, since Madame Williams had her seances on Saturday night and preferred that Elizabeth, before whose silent skepticism departed spirits might find themselves reluctant to speak, should not be in the house.† (source)
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During all the rest of the seance my paper traveled from group to group all up and down and about that huge hall, and my happy eye was upon it always, and I sat motionless, steeped in satisfaction, drunk with enjoyment.† (source)
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