A spectre is haunting The New York Times Company — the spectre of arithmetic. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Still, as his career continues, Dynamo finds that a certain spectre of the past keeps popping up …. From Wordnik.com. [Hero History: Dynamo | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News] Reference
At one stage some residents were recalling the spectre of the region's 2005 fires which killed nine people. From Wordnik.com. [Latest News - Yahoo!7 News] Reference
The fact the spectre is a dead man adds a bitter-sweet tone to the scene that just made the easy camaraderie seem even warmer. From Wordnik.com. [I ♥ superhero friendships] Reference
A spectre is haunting Europe. From Wordnik.com. [A Spider Is Haunting Europe « Gerry Canavan] Reference
A few months ago we were confronted by the "spectre" of the English Defence League. From Wordnik.com. [Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...] Reference
That's a spectre which is haunting the whole British political class, of whatever stripe. From Wordnik.com. [Indra Adnan: Forget Obama, Britain Has Its Own Ralph Nader] Reference
All it take is one state party lawyer raisng the "spectre" of a lawsuit, and the Obama folks are off and running. From Wordnik.com. [Report: Clinton Camp Threatened Lawsuit Over Texas Primary/Caucus] Reference
They were certain that the face of the "spectre" was not the face of Master. From Wordnik.com. [Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem] Reference
For some moments she regarded this kind of spectre fixedly, but neither she nor it spoke. From Wordnik.com. [IV. Lasciate Ogni Speranza. Book VIII] Reference
In Ceylon, a "tusker" is a kind of spectre, to be talked of by a few who have had the good luck to see one. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon] Reference
Reuss renders the word by "spectre," remarking in a note that it is not quite exact; but that the word Elohim expresses. From Wordnik.com. [Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study] Reference
According to him Austria was not uncompromising; what she rejects is the idea of a formal mediation, the 'spectre' of a conference. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers] Reference
"spectre" of Dulcibel Burton -- for it had a scarlet bodice on, just such as Dulcibel nearly always wore. From Wordnik.com. [Dulcibel A Tale of Old Salem] Reference
"spectre" of global economic protectionism following recent moves by the United States to protect their industries. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
It was as if the moving spectre of his love were passing by. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She fled from this spectre as if she had seen the Evil One incarnate. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
That new-term feeling is approaching, and with it the spectre of cuts. From Wordnik.com. [Arts cuts likely to be 25%] Reference
The spectre of lunacy rears its head almost immediately in True Things About Me. From Wordnik.com. [True Things About Me by Deborah Kay Davies] Reference
It was a spectre seen in the limbo of another world, in the darkness of a half light. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A spectre is haunting the economies of the western world – the spectre of the double dip. From Wordnik.com. [Cameron could be forced to U-turn if there's a double dip] Reference
In such conditions the problem of suicide may arrive like a ghastly spectre to confront the mind. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
But with 'the first streak of intellectual dawn this Ignatian spectre vanished into its kindred darkness.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
With word of Achilles 'invincibility, his rival found a way to overcome the spectre of the unbeatable opponent. From Wordnik.com. [Peripheral Anthropomorphism and the Fall of Troy] Reference
In the rear, candles were moving in front of spectre-like priests, under the last reverberations of the organs. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But the spectre of his older brother, his nasty father and his poor circumstances frustrate the boy at every turn. From Wordnik.com. [Michael Giltz: Toronto Film Fest Day 9, 10 and 11: The Irish, The Scots and Werner Herzog] Reference
The boy said he had seen a spectre; and it was a considerable time before the agitations of his body and voice subsided. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
The Prince saw, coming to him, with a slow but not heavy step, Marsa -- no, another Marsa, the spectre or statue of Marsa. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He rose, and tried to read; but before the printed page he saw continually Marsa Laszlo, like the spectre of his happiness. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Imagine a dream of lyrical black-and-white images, of a lonely young woman, flitting through her home like a silent spectre. From Wordnik.com. [Dan Persons: Cinefantastique Podcast: Eyes Without a Face -- 50th Anniversary Special] Reference
Often in dreams he would start and cry out, haunted by the sound of her scornful voice, the spectre of her threatening hand. From Wordnik.com. [Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter] Reference
This raises the spectre of multi-generational groups who are citizens of no nation yet know no other land than the United States. From Wordnik.com. [Paul Finkelman: Parents, Children, and Citizenship by Birth] Reference
The phrase "double-dip" would not cross a central banker's lips but it was the spectre that clearly loomed over the Basel deliberations. From Wordnik.com. [Basel III, Economic Certainty Nil] Reference
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