Read full poem →Wagner
A dog dost see, no spectre have we here;
He growls, doubts, lays him on his belly, too,
Dictionary Entry
A ghostly apparition, a phantom.
In a Sentence
“A specter haunted the cemetery at the old Vasquez manor.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. spectrede spectrespectre lespectre castlespectre duspectre grim
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Poetry examples for “spectre”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Your hour is near!
The spectre-haunted time of idle Night,
Your only fear,
Read full poem →And those, most vile, who dress
The charnel spectre drear
Of utterly dishallow'd nothingness
Read full poem →From the secret that lies in these wolds--
Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls--
Read full poem →From the secret that lies in these wolds—
Had drawn up the spectre of a planet
From the limbo of lunary souls—
Read full poem →Here, where on golden throne the monarch lolled,
Glides, spectre-like, unto his marble home,
Lit by the wan light of the horned moon,
Read full poem →Eternity will quench your thirst, O soul--
But never the Desert's spectre, cup of love!
Read full poem →Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last gray hairs,
Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies;
Where but to think is to be full of sorrow
Read full poem →Nor could he be a part of that which preyed
Upon her mind--a spectre of the past.
Read full poem →Archons deg. of Athens, topped by the tettix, deg. see, I return! deg.9
See, 'tis myself here standing alive, no spectre that speaks! 10
Crowned with the myrtle, did you command me, Athens and you,