'wraith' is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is generally used as a noun and can refer to an apparition or phantom, especially of a dead person, as seen in folklore and fiction. Example sentence: The villagers spoke of a wraith that haunted the nearby lake.
The story is over, I won't see the scarred wraith of Celebrimbor again, I won't have to face Sauron's murderous henchman, Black Hand, or his talons.
IN THE week ahead: elections in Kenya, John Kerry visits the Middle East, Rolls-Royce launches 'The Wraith' and football's international governing body reviews the rules of the game.
That loss let the solar wind thin its atmosphere to the wraith which remains today.If this theory is correct, that process should still be happening.
The first recorded wraith appears in the 10th-century "Tale of Genji", but many of Japan's traditional ghost stories come from the Bunka-Bunsei period in the early 19th century.
The sharp-tongued wraith snaps back: "That's because you always ordered badly and wanted me to experience your miserable mistake .Against a roundly apocalyptic world view, the great pleasures of this book are line-by-line.
The onstage wraith would fall on steaks and chocolates as soon as the curtain had descended.
In the second half, she finds glimmers of physical memory that connect the wraith to the former life.
This, too, works as a kind of emotional intensifier of the whole, so that each poem builds and builds to a great emotional climax.The people with whom John Burnside wrestles in "A Normal Skin" are much more ghostly and wraith-like than Mr Williams's.
When Anastasia Hille's Lady Macbeth conjures the "spirits that tend on mortal thoughts", she's like a wraith-thin child trying to cast spells.
Angie's roasted chicken oysters, lightly battered like a Platonic ideal of chicken nuggets, came with three kinds of potato – Jersey royals, a button of mash and wraith-like crisps.
Chief among them was the cover, showing an almost wraith-like figure with coils of luminous white hair posed, at dead of night and on a snowy peak, axe in hand, above what appeared to be the recumbent, sheet-draped body of a man.
