seance

• She had arranged that this seance should be held after dark, and had rented the house for the twenty-four hours beginning at ten in the morning. —  When Last I Died - Gladys Mitchell - Bradley 13: 1941
• Jane Dee had provided the entire household with a good meal before they repaired to the library for the seance, and Kelley had been better fed than he had for many a week, but the very richness of the food—not to mention the headiness of the French wine—had overburdened his stomach and his spirit alike. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
• Morand talked to Mr. Munroe. Munroe thought he was a crackpot, but was nonetheless impressed enough to call a meeting at which a seance was arranged. —  175 - The Pure Evil
• She will come to-morrow night This was very depressing; even Prince Wittgenstein was utterly discouraged and decided to break up the seance, and, groping his way to the nearest lamp, turned it up. —  In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875
• In a fit of unthinkingness - if I may use such an expression, - I gave the floor over the parlour, where the seance was taking place, two loud raps with the hammer. —  The Diary of a Nobody

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