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" I seated myself by the candle that stood on a table at one end of the room ; and pretending to read a book that I took out of my pocket, heard several dreadful stories of ghosts, as pale as ashes, that had stood at the feet of a bed, or walked over a... "
Palaestra: Untersuchungen und Texte aus der deutschen und englischen Philologie - Page 287
1906
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Harrison's British Classicks, Volume 4

1786 - 694 pages
...of others that had been conjured into the Red Sea, for difturbing people's reft, and drawing iheir curtains at midnight; with many other old women's fables of the like nature. As one fpirit raifed another, I eblerved that at the end of every ftory the whole company clofed their...
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The Spectator. ...

1789 - 508 pages
...by moon-light: and of others that had been conjured into the Red-Sea, for diflurbing people's reft, and drawing their curtains at midnight, with many other old women's fables of the like nature. As one fpirit raifed another, I obferved that at the end of every flory the whole company clofed their...
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Select British Classics, Volume 11

1803 - 434 pages
...bed, or walked over a church-yard by moonlight; and of others that had been conjured into the Red Sea for disturbing people's rest, and drawing their curtains at midnight ; with many other old womens fables of the like nature. As one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of every...
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The Spectator: In Eight Volumes. : Vol. I[-VIII].

1803 - 420 pages
...bed, or walked over a church-yard by moonlight; and of others that had been conjured into the Red Sea for disturbing people's rest, and drawing their curtains at midnight; with many other old womens fables of the like nature. As one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of every...
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The Spectator in miniature: being a collection of the principle ..., Volume 1

Spectator The - 1808 - 348 pages
...a church-yard hy moon-light: and of others that had heen conjured into the Red Sea, for disturhing people's rest, and drawing their curtains at midnight ; with many other old womens* fahles of the like nature. ' As one spirit raised another, I ohserved that at the end of every...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison, Volume 3

Joseph Addison - 1811 - 508 pages
...pretending to read a book that I took out of my pocket, heard several dreadful stories of ghosts as pale as ashes, that had stood at the feet of a bed, or walked...many other old women's fables of the like nature. As one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of «very story the whole company closed their...
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The Spectator

Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 504 pages
...pretending to read a book that I took out of my pocket, heard several dreadful stories of ghosts as pale as ashes, that had stood at the feet of a bed, or walked...many other old women's fables of the like nature. As •one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of every story the whole company closed...
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Apparitions; Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses ...

Joseph Taylor - 1814 - 240 pages
...or walked over a- church-yard by moonlight; and of others that had been conjured into the Red Sea, for disturbing people's rest, and drawing their curtains...many other old women's fables of the like nature. As one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of every story the whole company closed their...
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Apparitions: Or, The Mystery of Ghosts, Hobgoblins, and Haunted Houses Developed

Joseph Taylor - 1815 - 268 pages
...church-yard by moonlight; and of others that had been conjured into the Red Sea, for disturb* • ing people's rest, and drawing their curtains at midnight...many other old women's fables of the like nature. As one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of every story the whole B 6 company company...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others]: with sketches of the lives of the ...

Spectator The - 1816 - 348 pages
...pretending to read a book that I took out of my pocket, heard several dreadful stories of ghosts, as pale as ashes, that had stood at the feet of a bed, or walked...many other old women's fables of the like nature. As one spirit raised another, I observed that at the end of every story the whole company closed their...
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