All 15 Uses of
specter
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
- Gringoire flew thither, hoping to escape, by the swiftness of his legs, from the three infirm spectres who had clutched him.†
Chpt 1.2.6 *unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specters.
- "In the Court of Miracles," replied a fourth spectre, who had accosted them.†
Chpt 1.2.6unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
- With Michael Angelo dead, what does this miserable architecture, which survived itself in the state of a spectre, do?†
Chpt 1.5.2
- It was one of those spectres, half light, half shadow, such as one beholds in dreams and in the extraordinary work of Goya, pale, motionless, sinister, crouching over a tomb, or leaning against the grating of a prison cell.†
Chpt 1.6.3unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specters.
- At first sight one took her for a spectre; at the second, for a statue.†
Chpt 1.6.3unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
- "Impious wretch!" muttered the spectre.†
Chpt 2.7.7
- She gazed fixedly for several minutes at this sort of spectre.†
Chpt 2.8.4
- When he re-entered the streets, the passers-by elbowing each other by the light of the shop-fronts, produced upon him the effect of a constant going and coming of spectres about him.†
Chpt 2.9.1unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specters.
- When she had passed on, he began to descend the staircase again, with the slowness which he had observed in the spectre, believing himself to be a spectre too, haggard, with hair on end, his extinguished lamp still in his hand; and as he descended the spiral steps, he distinctly heard in his ear a voice laughing and repeating,— "A spirit passed before my face, and I heard a small voice, and the hair of my flesh stood up."†
Chpt 2.9.1unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
- When she had passed on, he began to descend the staircase again, with the slowness which he had observed in the spectre, believing himself to be a spectre too, haggard, with hair on end, his extinguished lamp still in his hand; and as he descended the spiral steps, he distinctly heard in his ear a voice laughing and repeating,— "A spirit passed before my face, and I heard a small voice, and the hair of my flesh stood up."†
Chpt 2.9.1
- As soon as he learned that the gypsy was alive, the cold ideas of spectre and tomb which had persecuted him for a whole day vanished, and the flesh returned to goad him.†
Chpt 2.9.5
- But little by little the first vapors of terror had been dissipated; from the constantly increasing noise, and from many other signs of reality, she felt herself besieged not by spectres, but by human beings.†
Chpt 2.11.1unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specters.
- A glimpse could be caught of him in the obscurity, in the bow of the boat, like a spectre.†
Chpt 2.11.1unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
- He looked like the ghost of himself; that is an effect of the moonlight, it seems as though one beheld only the spectres of things in that light.†
Chpt 2.11.1unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specters.
- "Don't lie to me, old spectre!" said he.†
Chpt 2.11.1unconventional spelling: This is a British spelling. Americans use specter.
Definition:
a frightening or disturbing mental image or possibility
or:
a ghostly appearing image
or:
a ghostly appearing image