| Bodying forth the anxieties of a turbulent decade, the spectres in 1820s melodramas signify allusively rather than referentially. |
| The palace at Versailles was for Louis a haunted house in which spectres of his great-grandfather mingled with the memories and traces of his lost loved ones. |
| The Orthopterous insects distinguished by the preceding characters are popularly known under the names of Spectres, Walking-stick and Walking-leaf insects. |
| The spectres haunting them were earlier heavy quaffers back in the days before newspapers learned to tell all. |
| Or he may see intellectual spectres and phantoms that are cosmic and logical and that take the forms of syllogisms. |
| What hunt of spectres could surpass that dread pursuit and flight! |
