All 7 Uses
specter
in
Sweet Far Thing
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- The Wolfson brothers appear on either side of the cover, and in the center are drawings of a strange metal box on three legs, a levitating table, a fearsome specter, and a skeleton kicking his bony head about.†
Chpt 3
- The ghostly specters stretch across the wall, their faces shifting from benevolent to grisly.†
Chpt 3 *
- The boat passes pictures of terrifying specters, their cloaks spread out to show the souls they've devoured.†
Chpt 3
- I see specters and shadows that aren't there.†
Chpt 4
- And then, on the path, I saw those men, and they seemed like specters.†
Chpt 4
- The men you saw in the woods—now you see they were not specters but flesh and blood.†
Chpt 4
- I cannot be part of this gaudy convocation of princesses and fairies, jesters and imps, specters and illusions.†
Chpt 4
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)