We thought we saw a wraith in the window as we passed by the old abandoned mansion on the edge of town. From LearnThat.org.
It is not her own betrothal, but mine with Winnie's wraith, that is deluding her crazy brain. From Wordnik.com. [Aylwin] Reference
Banquo's wraith, which is invisible to all but Macbeth, is the haunting of an evil conscience. From Wordnik.com. [From Chaucer to Tennyson] Reference
Loads of good stuff in there and a good post from 'wraith' a coupla pages back, too. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Banquo's wraith, which is invisible to all but. From Wordnik.com. [Brief History of English and American Literature] Reference
And the breath of the gray wraith hath pass'd o'er his brow. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume IV. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Its wraith stilled, where our mouths dwell still with the day. From Wordnik.com. [Upwards, Into the White Eye Rising] Reference
A procession of famous women followed, then came the wraith of. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
Shortly before his death he believed he had seen his wraith. From Wordnik.com. [Real Ghost Stories] Reference
And on his psychical side he is not an unsubstantial wraith, but. From Wordnik.com. [Christianity and Ethics A Handbook of Christian Ethics] Reference
See the wraith-white snow settling on the roof of my mother's car. From Wordnik.com. [Spring Melt] Reference
The wraith by the hearth had her full revenge at that hour, for Ann. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
He had stopped and watched her flitting wraith-like through the mist. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
The sobbing woman arose from her chair and hastened toward the wraith. From Wordnik.com. [The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure] Reference
"I took -- I took you for a wraith -- I took you for a vision," said the. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
The dancer was a little girl about twelve years old, as thin as a wraith. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
Then an answer as from a wraith -- the humble request of some one for admission. From Wordnik.com. [Doom Castle] Reference
A messenger from the coast announces that the wraith has faded into nothingness. From Wordnik.com. [Authors of Greece] Reference
His wraith was struck full in the forehead and fell to earth in the agony of death. From Wordnik.com. [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference
Cynthia made an effort to smile, but it was a sad, little shadowy wraith of a smile. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
This apparition of a friend has in the Scotch wraith, or Irish fetch its counterpart. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
This frail wraith, this poor demented thing could hold them in the hollow of her hand!. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
The deliberately slow words are ominous, spoken the way a wraith might call me to death. From Wordnik.com. [Wraith of Wraiths] Reference
How can Death be "but a phantom and a wraith" and at the same time follow the poet triumphantly?. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
The tears were falling now, but the wraith of a smile hovered about the corners of Nancy's mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference
'Have you ever heard of any one having encountered the form or wraith of this Lord Warden of old?'. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
I was invulnerable, invisible, immortal, a speeding wraith riding a sliver of light into the ether. From Wordnik.com. [LIGHT FINGERS] Reference
The wraith led onward; Kitty let herself out of the window, and thence to the ground by help of the ivy roots. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
My hands were momentarily wraith - blue and able to pass through matter before returning, safely, back to normal. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory] Reference
'He is alive, he is alive,' she cried to them, as she followed hot foot after the wraith that led to the rocky lynn. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
The parallels are comically human: the small but pugilistic cactus, the cheerfully plump one, the tall but diffident wraith. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Creed: Down Over Up; Richard Wright: The Stairwell Project; Joan Mitchell] Reference
Then to himself again he muttered, 'I doubt he is not long for this world, since I met his wraith as I entered into the choir.'. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
It's like some Edward Gorey wraith came to life, got a Bump-It, and joined The Craft, which is totally a compliment coming from me. From Wordnik.com. [Una LaMarche: Project Runway Episode 5 Recap: Smells Like Team Spirit] Reference
''Tis his wraith!' cried the tall man, noticing the bonnet, and swung back in his terror, as he tried to cross himself by way of charm. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
'Mind ye, I dinna ken whether 'twas a wraith I saw or no -- for I'd been first footin', ye ken, an 'maybe I had a wee drappie i' my e'e. '. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
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