• Synonyms: apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
  Meaning: a ghostly appearing figure; "we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us"

• It is the shadow of a shadow, the apparition of a soul!
• With the aid of the darkness, it seemed a sort of apparition.
• Here the clock struck one, and immediately the apparition faded away.
• The Lancers acknowledged the apparition only by an increase of pace."
• 'As the apparition left off speaking my dog pricked up his ears and began to bark.
• But there were others who saw it elsewhere and on different occasions-- hunters, herdsmen, and travellers--all alike awed, alike perplexed, by the apparition.
• If, however, the apparition should turn out to be no vampire, but only a respectable ghost, they might manage to endure its presence, till it should be weary of haunting them.
• There were still further speculations, that related less to the apparition itself than to its connection with the other grand topic of the time--the murder of young Poindexter.
• He would have liked to put on a dry suit of clothes first, but the apparition declined to leave him for an instant until her hour was up, and he was forced to deny himself that pleasure.
• To us, more important than anything presented on this subject, is this evidence of the existence of a very early dispute among the first disciples of Jesus on the question of whether he was real or merely an apparition.

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