To the gardener in me, Dudleytown quickly assumed a spectral presence.

"One would think a spectral presence might be more specific," Diro said, slurring his words slightly.

In the shuttered dimness he was a spectral presence.

Who became such a spectral, shambling presence at his family's board meetings that they finally told him to get sober or stay home.

But Sept. 11 loomed as a spectral presence in the conversation.

This narrator, it should be noted, is a somewhat spectral presence in the book.

Bond was on the stage late at night reviewing preparations for the next day's performance when he felt a spectral presence that terrified him.

Like spectral presences, cloud shadows moved slowly across the lawn and slid up the walls of the buildings.

They glow with a gentle translucence that gives them a presence more spectral than physical.

Except for Grimsby's spectral presence in the pantry, they were alone.