visitations

For several weeks thereafter I had visitations from the Legendary Chicken Fairy, but those went away.

Make Mine a Double 2008

After visitations from the Russians and the Taliban the most amazing thing about 'Afghanistan: Crossroads of the

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010

The sightings, the visitations were a sequence, like a piece of music.

Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

It fortuned, that the Friar hearing his Cupidicall visitations over-publikely discovered, purposed to check and reprove Lisetta for her indiscretion.

The Decameron 2004

There is a remedy for every mistake except -- a few physical ones, which we euphuistically describe as visitations of

The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Lucas Malet 1891

In the past 10 years, the Vatican has appointed Archbishop Chaput to serve on three high-profile investigations, known as visitations: of American seminaries in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal; of the Legion of Christ after the group's founder was discovered to have sexually abused seminarians, fathered children and embezzled money; and, most recently, of Bishop William Morris of Australia, who had said publicly that the church should consider ordaining women and married men the investigation resulted in his removal.

NYT > Home Page By LAURIE GOODSTEIN 2011

Saying that, such 'visitations' can also be clunky ... the characters have to remain true to who they are, not act like they've been possessed. orannia

Monday Nalini Singh 2008

One of my novel manuscripts, currently under long-term construction and buried in metaphorical scaffolding, is in part a ghost story—and one of the questions I ran into while writing was how to give the ghostly "visitations" enough of a sense of fear and urgency to propel the story along, while also making them unusual enough to stand out from the crowd while remaining believable.

Archive 2007-10-01 a. fortis 2007

One of my novel manuscripts, currently under long-term construction and buried in metaphorical scaffolding, is in part a ghost story—and one of the questions I ran into while writing was how to give the ghostly "visitations" enough of a sense of fear and urgency to propel the story along, while also making them unusual enough to stand out from the crowd while remaining believable.

The WritingYA Weblog: October Country: Restless Spirits a. fortis 2007

Its thesis, however, was revolutionary -- that UFOs and angels and fairies and all other 'visitations' or 'vastations,' in Swedenborg's wonderful word are aspects of the same phenomenon.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2006