ghosts in Tales of Australian Life
it the moon cast scarce a shadow from the figures, but played upon the eyes that ringed around, as it played upon the waters beyond. Some looked ghastly in their white shirts and bared arms, some weird in black <;lothe8. The light so showed the groups of silent conspirators waiting resolutely and s…
- Record ID
- 1,999
- Year
- 1,875
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- Internet Archive
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- Record ID
- 1999
- Source
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- Publication
- Tales of Australian Life; Nathaniel Walter Swan
- Published
- 1875
- Narrative type
- Ghost and Apparition Accounts
- Public-text label
- ghosts
- Archive period
- Gold Rush Colonial
- Location
- Australia (Australia): B
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it the moon cast scarce a shadow from the figures, but played upon the eyes that ringed around, as it played upon the waters beyond. Some looked ghastly in their white shirts and bared arms, some weird in black <;lothe8. The light so showed the groups of silent conspirators waiting resolutely and still for the coming fight, that they might have been fancied ghosts attracted to earth again by this midnight rite of sin. It was re- marked afterwards by some who were present that a loud word had not been spoken by any of the spectators from the beginning. M. Paul stepped into the ring with a large cloak wrapped about one arm. Peters.
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