revenants

Airships sail across the smoky skies, piloted by brass automata, undead "revenants" prowl the fog-wrapped streets hungry for the taste of human flesh, and the ghosts of dead policemen bring a bloody justice to criminal who have escaped the law's grasp.

Roberson's Book Report Chris Roberson 2008

T.e boat warped away from the pier, the M.T. O. and a small group of officers, detectives, and Red Cross men disappeared behind an empty train, and the "revenants" on deck stared back at the cliffs of England across a widening strip of sea.

Now It Can Be Told Philip Gibbs 1919

"They are properly called revenants, and they fall under the power of the Earth Master, since they are bound to earth for-well, for whatever reason.

Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

"revenants" from the ancient world a much quieter and happier habitation than the mountain tops where blows the frozen wind of

Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations John Cowper Powys 1917

Another held a number of revenants—zombies con-trolled by some unseen Sorceri master.

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

Another held a number of revenants—zombies con-trolled by some unseen Sorceri master.

Dreams of a Dark Warrior Kresley Cole 2011

Despite their physical remoteness, and their ambiguous mood of alienation, we feel we have seen them before; and now, passing overhead, we are revenants, returning to the scene with a glimmer of insight.

Ballardian » Edward Burtynsky: Oil – A Ballardian Interpretation 2010

And a couple of uncredited cameos turn the neat trick of being revenants from the future.

Surprise: A Newly Exhilarating 'X-Men' Joe Morgenstern 2011

The widower of the title, dying from kidney disease, doesn't recall his previous lives so much as summon up visions from them, and entertain beloved revenants from the life he's about to lose—specifically his late wife, who remains young and beautiful in his eyes, and their late son.

Lizard Tale 'Rango': Clever, Coldblooded Joe Morgenstern 2011

You people still demanding reparations from Germany two generations after the war has ended seem like revenants from the Versailles of 1919.

Athens backs villagers' fight for German compensation over 1944 SS massacre 2011