Sentence examples for with a spectre from inspiring English sources

"Come with me," Bond asks him, with a spectre of a smile, on his way to South America: a request echoed, when they get there, by Mathis's own distress call — "Stay with me".

The diving, the water, are so spookily described that more than 20 years later I can still get goose-pimples just thinking of it, and of the electrifying moment when she comes face to face, under water, with a spectre from her own past: "I couldn't let it out, it was dead already, it had drowned in air.

There are many instances of marvellous occurrences in the novel, such as Macandal and Ti Noel's metamorphoses and Henri Christophe's encounter with a spectre.

The model has been widely applied to examine populations with a spectre of different diseases according to QoL [ 16].

Warren shared with the court what a spectre had confided in her: Foster had recruited her own daughter.

For to live and play football in the downtrodden, broken, tormented city meant deceiving Vienna with a repulsive spectre of itself.

Fatherhood is a constant battle with a cartoon spectre of failure: "at one time or other, if not on a daily basis, each one of us fathers is the biggest asshole in the world".

Scholars find stray threads of these stories in "The Canterville Ghost" and even "The Picture of Dorian Gray": Meinhold's Sidonia had a portrait showing her as a beautiful, youthful noblewoman in fur and blue velvet, with a "terrible spectre … arrayed in her death garments" looking over her shoulder.

"A spectre is now haunting Europe," he said, "the spectre of economic stagnation, with growth disappointing again and confidence falling back".

A sprightly figure, standing to greet the lady, as erect as a butler, with the spectre of a smile.

Siegel (without Shuster) did have some success at National with the Spectre, a ghostly avenger with otherworldly powers, who lasted several years and was later sporadically revived by various writers.