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Tanis trembled - the spectre's touch meant certain death.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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Tanis trembled - the spectre's touch meant certain death.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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Tanis looked up in horror and saw the spectre's hand close tightly around Raistlin's wrist.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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The spectre's voice echoed hollowly from Raistlin's throat as he began to walk toward them.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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The spectre's voice echoed hollowly from Raistlin's throat as he began to walk toward them.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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Tanis looked up in horror and saw the spectre's hand close tightly around Raistlin's wrist.
Dragons of Autumn Twilight Weis, Margaret 1984
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There was something very awful, too, in the spectre's being provided with an infernal atmosphere of its own.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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We can no longer affect ignorance of the spectre's presence.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Great as Tchartkóff's terror was, he could not help staring covetously at the coin, and looked on with profound attention as it streamed rapidly through the spectre's bony hands, glittering and clinking with a dull thin metallic sound, and was then rolled up anew.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various
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The truth is, that he tried to be smart, as a means of distracting his own attention, and keeping down his terror; for the spectre's voice disturbed the very marrow in his bones.
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester
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