All 6 Uses of
specter
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- A hundred times the dozing passenger inquired of this spectre: "Buried how long?"†
Chpt 1.3 *unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
- All covered with dust, white as a spectre, tall as a spectre!†
Chpt 2.8
- All covered with dust, white as a spectre, tall as a spectre!†
Chpt 2.8
- Perhaps, to observe whether he had any spectre on his conscience.†
Chpt 2.8
- The sweet scents of the summer night rose all around him, and rose, as the rain falls, impartially, on the dusty, ragged, and toil-worn group at the fountain not far away; to whom the mender of roads, with the aid of the blue cap without which he was nothing, still enlarged upon his man like a spectre, as long as they could bear it.†
Chpt 2.8
- I make response, 'Tall as a spectre.'†
Chpt 2.15
Definition:
a frightening or disturbing mental image or possibility
or:
a ghostly appearing image
or:
a ghostly appearing image