Citations:apparitions

English citations of apparitions

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• 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.

  It was also observed that he was troubled with apparitions of hobgoblins and evil spirits, for ever and anon he would intimate so much by words.

• 1719 — Daniel Defoe. Robinson Crusoe.

  Again, I considered also that I could by no means tell for certain where I had trod, and where I had not; and that if, at last, this was only the print of my own foot, I had played the part of those fools who try to make stories of spectres and apparitions, and then are frightened at them more than anybody.