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| World War, 1914-1918 - 1928 - 700 pages
...ceremony and to walk from the carriage into the building on a carpet : the eeriness of an empty house, O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear A sense of...as plain as whisper in the ear The place is haunted — this would help to invest the threshold as a place where evil spirits might be met with. To this... | |
| Stanton Arthur Coblentz - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1982 - 220 pages
...WF Prince, Noted Witnesses, pp. 148^*9. IO The Ghost in the House For over all there hung a cloud of fear; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said,...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted! These lines, from Thomas Hood's long poem "The Haunted House," utter a sentiment familiar in all eras... | |
| Graham K. Dugdale - Sports & Recreation - 1998 - 178 pages
...tale or two. What more could you ask? John Wyatt - Retired Chief Ranger of the Lake District Prologue O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear; A sense of...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. Thomas Hood, The Haunted House Once more, readers are invited to journey back into the singularly inscrutable... | |
| Roslynn Doris Haynes - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 406 pages
...attacks from the hostile natives, and partly from the physical peculiarities of the region itself. 'On all there hung a shadow and a fear. A sense of mystery,...daunted. And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, This region's haunted.'"' Giles records that he was only too glad to leave the place to the 'native... | |
| Michael E. Banasik - History - 2003 - 258 pages
...giant black horse, and his own form magnified into marvelous and fearful proportions. "O'er all these hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit...plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." And thus they invested the guerrillas on the Blue Hills with supernatural horror and fear, and transformed,... | |
| Ambrose Bierce - Fiction - 2004 - 264 pages
...your cheek made you cover your eyes to shut out the apparition."' "O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And...plain as whisper in the ear: The place is haunted." In short, then, as in the day of Dennis Kearney and now, the site of the Sandlot and the new City Hall... | |
| Donald T. Blume - Literary Collections - 2004 - 426 pages
...your cheek made you cover your eyes to shut out the apparition.5 "O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And...plain as whisper in the ear: The place is haunted." In short, then, as in the day of Dennis Kearney and now, the site of the Sandlot and the new City Hall... | |
| Richard E. Crabbe, Richard Crabbe - Fiction - 2005 - 372 pages
...not reach him, he would find that way. That his might be the way of pain did not concern him. Eight O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted — THOMAS HOOD "Oh, it's you," Bess said, peering out over the barrels of her shotgun through the... | |
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