| 1. | The apparition was soon explained. - from Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley |
| 2. | Whose inward apparition gently mov'. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | But the terror of this new apparition brought me to a stand. - from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 4. | Fine apparition My quaint Ariel. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 5. | The apparition had outstripped me it stood looking through the gate. - from Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte |
| 6. | That, if again this apparition come. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 7. | From the landscape or waters or from the exquisite apparition of the sky. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 8. | Mann, the good lady of the house, was unexpectedly startled by the apparition of Mr. - from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens |
| 9. | The sudden appearance of this unlooked-for apparition acted strongly upon the donkey. - from The Best American Humorous Short Stories by Various |
| 10. | Purport of all these apparitions of the rea. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 11. | Through these shores amid the shadows, with the apparitions pressing. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 12. | The apparitions of Knock and Lourdes. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 13. | But all these were nothing to the tales of ghosts and apparitions that succeeded. - from The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving |
| 14. | Of what similar apparitions did Stephen thin. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 15. | There used to be a swarm of these small apparitions in holiday time, and we called them children of the Lord of Misrule. - from The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne |
| 16. | Bad dreams and evil apparitions were attributed to Faunus, and he was believed to enter houses stealthily at night for this purpose. - from Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome by E.M. Berens |
| 17. | He turned at the grated door, to render the thanks of his heart it closed under the gaoler's hand and the apparitions vanished from his sight forever. - from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens |
| 18. | This was not, however, the only stupor which the apparitions and the disappearances of the past had left in his mind. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |