Apparition

The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe.

Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?

I look out on the brilliant heaven, and see a milky way of powdery splendour wandering through it, and clusters and knots of stars and planets shining serenely in the blue frosty spaces; and the armed apparition of Orion, his spear pointing away into immeasurable space, gleaming overhead; and the familiar constellation of the Plough dipping down into the west; and I think when I go in again that there is one Christmas the less between me and my grave.

As the whirl of dust drew nearer to the solitary bluff upon which the two castaways were reposing, the canvas-covered tilts of waggons and the figures of armed horsemen began to show up through the haze, and the apparition revealed itself as being a great caravan upon its journey for the West.

I have cross-examined these men, one of them a hard-headed countryman, one a farrier, and one a moorland farmer, who all tell the same story of this dreadful apparition, exactly corresponding to the hell-hound of the legend.

With her perfect figure and elegant dress she was, indeed, a strange apparition upon a lonely moorland path.

All evening, though I tried to think of other things, my mind would turn to the apparition at the window.

Lucy seemed stiffened to stone by this unexpected apparition.

Oh!! I just saw an apparition!!

Tom thought he saw an apparition in a white dress at the end of the long, dark hallway, but it turned out it was only Mary.