Opinions vary, and no decisive advice seems requisite.
— from Baily's Magazine of Sports and Pastimes, Volume 85 January to June, 1906 by Various
Very absurd, no doubt, and sentimental, but my love of the old haunts made me feel resentful of the topsy-turvy state of things I found down there.
— from An Autobiography by Elizabeth (Elizabeth Southerden Thompson) Butler
"But ye work could not be finished at this time; wherefore ye same evening, an hour after sun-set, it met me again near ye same place, and after a few words of each side it quietly vanished, and neither doth appear since, nor ever will more to any man's disturbance.
— from A Book of Cornwall by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
Vapours, a nervous disease, and such general appellations it had from sundry physicians.
— from A History of Epidemics in Britain, Volume 2 (of 2) From the Extinction of Plague to the Present Time by Charles Creighton
But the work could not be finished at this time; wherefore the same evening, an hour after sunset, it met me again near the same place, and after a few words on each side it quickly vanished, and neither doth appear since, nor ever will more to any man's disturbance.
— from Cornish Characters and Strange Events by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
But the work could not be finished this time, wherefore the same evening, an hour after sunset, it met me again near the same place, and after a few words on each side it quietly vanished, and neither doth appear since, nor ever will more to any man’s disturbance.’
— from The Ghost World by T. F. (Thomas Firminger) Thiselton-Dyer
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