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These anxious, desperately lonely apparitions are one of many inscrutable phenomena that in Mr. Millhauser's fiction occupy the spirit-haunted recesses of orderly society.
Of Bouquets, Suburbs and 'Urth' Sam Sacks 2011
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And with that smile warming the memory of those spirit-haunted eyes, we crept down-stairs again, and out into the fields.
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He half-closed the charred door, then went to his cold bed of bare earth and listened to the wind moan in the spirit-haunted night.
Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988
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Tall boots of good leather that could march across a country, boots to resist rain, snow, and spirit-haunted streams, good boots that fitted Sharpe as if the cobbler had known this Rifleman would one day need such luxuries.
Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988
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Like a spirit-haunted place it was, so strange and still.
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And with that smile warming the memory of those spirit-haunted eyes, we crept down-stairs again, and out into the fields.
The Complete Essays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900
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And with that smile warming the memory of those spirit-haunted eyes, we crept down-stairs again, and out into the fields.
Studies and Essays: Quality and Others John Galsworthy 1900
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And with that smile warming the memory of those spirit-haunted eyes, we crept down-stairs again, and out into the fields.
Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900
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But that bitter, repining, spirit-haunted exile was far different from the joyous creature who shed light on Pitt.
William Pitt and the Great War John Holland Rose 1898
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Sometimes, of an afternoon, we would climb the steep winding pathway through the woods, past awful precipices, spirit-haunted, by grassy swards where fairies danced o 'nights, by briar and bracken sheltered
Paul Kelver, a Novel 1893
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