apparation

I attend productions for the scenic design, and not for the quality of the singing or acting, which in SL is closer to posing, for we are masked altimes and can neither quiver a lip nor bat an eyelash, let alone recoil in horror from the apparation of a ghost.

Archive 2008-02-01 Young Geoffrion 2008

I attend productions for the scenic design, and not for the quality of the singing or acting, which in SL is closer to posing, for we are masked altimes and can neither quiver a lip nor bat an eyelash, let alone recoil in horror from the apparation of a ghost.

SL Shakespeare Young Geoffrion 2008

Draco was born late he was in potions with Harry when everyone else went for apparation.

Just Finished Reading Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005

That then I sitting downe, might rest my selfe, and set my minde together againe, and forget this conceiued dread, at my entrance in of the gate, the apparation of the white Sorix gratiously comming againe into my reteyning memorie, an exhortatorie prouacation, and good occasion to animate and comforte me, because that to _Augures_ it was a gratefull and propitious signe of good luck.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Against the grey dusk at the window she looked to him like a slim spirit returned to haunt the halls of Aulnes -- some graceful shade come back out of the hazy and forgotten years of gallantry and courts and battles -- the exquisite apparation of that golden time before the Vendée drowned and washed it out in blood.

Barbarians 1899

And still another strange coincidence is, the women never seem to be nervous or fearful, even a little bit, at this ugly, thread-bare and inefficient apparation.

People's Party Hand-Book of Facts. Campaign of 1898. N.C. 1898

Whatever might have been their method of address, or the purport of this visit, they were met by the apparation of a human being, in large black whiskers, deathly pale, leaning on the arm of Bertha, and emerging from the back parlor.

Margaret 1851

He will appear as a white apparation, rising from the tombstone that is marked clearly as 'Tom's Grave'.

IGN Complete 2010

Today, as the cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash disperses from British airspace, the new day dawned upon an long-awaited apparation, the draft of ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

The IPKat - IP news, views and mews Jeremy 2010

Today, as the cloud of Icelandic volcanic ash disperses from British airspace, the new day dawned upon an long-awaited apparation, the draft of ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement.

The IPKat - IP news, views and mews Jeremy 2010