All 4 Uses
specter
in
The Jungle, by Sinclair
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- It would come, and it would come; a grisly thing, a specter born in the black caverns of terror; a power primeval, cosmic, shadowing the tortures of the lost souls flung out to chaos and destruction.†
Chpt 7 *
- There was another specter following him.†
Chpt 14
- Afterward, when he saw the despair of his family, and reckoned up the money he had spent, the tears came into his eyes, and he began the long battle with the specter.†
Chpt 14
- To toil long hours for another's advantage; to live in mean and squalid homes, to work in dangerous and unhealthful places; to wrestle with the specters of hunger and privation, to take your chances of accident, disease, and death.†
Chpt 28
Definitions:
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(1)
(specter) a frightening or disturbing mental image or possibility
or:
a ghostly appearing image - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)