Even though the Mumlers' spirit forms were usually faint and out of focus people coming in for portraits often reported that they recognized the spirits in the photos as the very family members they were hoping to connect with.
It was a fortnight since Mrs. Bennet had been down stairs, but on this happy day she again took her seat at the head of her table, and in spirits oppressively high.
The telling of ghost stories at Christmas became a regular aspect of the holiday, which is why, in case anyone ever wondered, Charles Dickens featured three spirits in his popular work " A Christmas Carol."
Jo read till her eyes gave out and she was sick of books, got so fidgety that even good–natured Laurie had a quarrel with her, and so reduced in spirits that she desperately wished she had gone with Aunt March.
Though frequently depressed in spirit when not actually at work, owing to thoughts of Eustacia's position and his mother's estrangement, when in the full swing of labour he was cheerfully disposed and calm.
23 Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks.
" I'd tell him we're all with him in spirit, " said Lupin, then hesitated slightly, " And I'd tell him to follow his instincts, which are good and nearly always right."
She looked at him and realized dimly that there was an integrity of spirit in him which was not to be torn apart by her passionate hands, nor by any hands.
The miserable evening in a dull restaurant ended up being the very best Christmas Eve we had ever experienced just because of a young sailor who had Christmas spirit in his soul.
The painter Jackson Pollock represented a spirit of rebellion in art. Pollock would drop paint onto a canvas. What did his works mean? People had to decide for themselves.