woman in white

“The sentinel in question was a stolid, rather dull-minded Styrian peasant, who was possessed of but little power of imagination or of education, and who was entirely ignorant, therefore, of the tradition according to which a woman in white makes her appearance by night in the Hofburg at Vienna, either in the chapel or in the adjoining corridors and halls, whenever any misfortune is about to overtake the imperial house of Hapsburg.”

The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe

“To their side was the Prince, with Herr Flaüss, masked and apparently having regained the power to stand, to his left and to his right, clinging smilingly to his arm, a slim blonde woman in white robes and a white feather mask.”

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters

“You know they say there is a woman in white walks them grounds, and 'Biah, he says, as near as he can find out, it 's that' ere particular chamber as she allers goes to.”

Oldtown Folks

“A woman in white dusted and swept, stopping only to smile at us maternally.”

Blood Test