"Visitant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... have felt after being with his brother, Ralph Waldo, that I had entertained an angel visitant. The fawn of Marvell's imagination survives in my memory as the fitting image to recall this beautiful youth; a soul glowing like the rose of morning with enthusiasm, a character white as the lilies in ...
— Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 • George Hoar
... coverings were dragged off and thrown on the floor; there was heard a scratching noise under the bed as of some animal with iron claws; sometimes they were lifted bodily, "so that six men could not hold them down," and their limbs were beaten violently against the bedposts. Nor did the unseen and unruly visitant scruple to plague Mompesson's aged mother, whose Bible was frequently hidden from her, and in whose bed ashes, knives, ...
— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce
... slowly back with baffled anger and vindictiveness. However, he had prevented something, although he knew not what. The principal had got away, but he had identified his confederate, and for the first time held a clue to his mysterious visitant. There was no use to alarm the household, which did not seem to have been disturbed. The trespassers were far away by this time, and the attempt would hardly be repeated that night. He made his way quietly back ...
— Susy, A Story of the Plains • Bret Harte
... Sterling to be present," he observed with a touch of displeasure—whether intended for M. Auguste or the spiritual visitant I could not tell. ...
— The International Spy - Being the Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War • Allen Upward
... to which it has submitted so long. Question me no more. But if I vanish from thine eyes, if thou hear that the death which, to my sorrow and in my foolishness I have failed to recognize as the merciful minister of Heaven, has removed me at last from the earth, believe that the pale Visitant was welcome, and that I humbly accept as a blessed release the lot of our ...
— A Strange Story, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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