Visitant

What visitant from the gloom of the deep was I to behold? ❋ Unknown (2010)

Possessed of more than a cursory knowledge of astronomy, he took a sick man's pleasure in speculating as to the dwellers on the unseen worlds of those incredibly remote suns, to haunt whose houses of light life came forth, a shy visitant from the rayless crypts of matter. ❋ Unknown (1918)

For two hours after our arrival, Mr.C. displayed a good deal of his brilliant conversation, when he was listened to with surprise and delight by the whole circle; but at this time, unluckily, Lady -- was announced, when Mrs. Hannah, from politeness, devoted herself to her titled visitant, while the little folks retired to ❋ Joseph Cottle (1811)

For two hours after our arrival, Mr.C. displayed a good deal of his brilliant conversation, when he was listened to with surprise and delight by the whole circle; but at this time, unluckily, Lady ” was announced, when Mrs. Hannah, from politeness, devoted herself to her titled visitant, while the little folks retired to a snug window with one or two of the Misses More, and there had their own agreeable converse. ❋ Cottle, Joseph (1847)

I was wakened, after having slept uneasily for some hours, by some person shaking me rudely by the shoulder; a small lamp burned in my room, and by its light, to my horror and amazement, I discovered that my visitant was the self-same blind old lady who had so terrified me a few weeks before. ❋ Unknown (2003)

It struck me as an odd thing, that even then, considering how prone to superstition persons in his rank of life usually are, he did not seem to suspect any thing supernatural in the occurrence; and, on the contrary, was thoroughly persuaded that his visitant was a living person, who had got into the house by some hidden entrance. ❋ Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1843)

She might seem, indeed, like himself, rather a "visitant" than an inhabitant of this planet, and their courtship not unlike one of his own stories of half immaterial lovers who go hand in hand, with sentiments for sentences and great heedlessness of mortal matters, to an idyllic union of hearts. ❋ George Edward Woodberry (1892)

Adapted from the entry for 'visitant' in the 1828 Noah Webster's Dictionary of the English Language. ❋ Karyna McGlynn (2009)

Swept along half the length of an aisle by the terror-stricken women, she had broken her way back through the rout and quickly caught the light-blinded visitant in a clothes basket. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mrs. Murray, it appears, occasionally narrated the story of her brother's ghostly visitant, and it has been retailed by one of her auditors to a representative of the New York World. ❋ Unknown (2012)

All that he had ever gleaned from the books proclaimed indubitably the faun - likeness of this visitant of the deep. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Possessed of more than a cursory knowledge of astronomy, he took a sick man's pleasure in speculating as to the dwellers on the unseen worlds of those incredibly remote suns, to haunt whose houses of light, life came forth, a shy visitant, from the rayless crypts of matter. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the face of the spirit visitant, chaste with wisdom, lighted by a splendour of power and calm. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And yet, through this bedlam of noise, came Captain West's voice, as of a spirit visitant, distinct, unrelated, mellow as all music and mighty as an archangel's call to judgment. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Never had he appeared so great to me, so far remote, so much a spirit visitant. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And how did he know his visitant was called Mithras? ❋ Ruth Rendell (2010)

A former visitant of UC Santa Cruz, union boilermaker, ex-Marine, Vietnam vet, anti-war activist, dilettante in science with an earth-shaking theory on the nature of light (which no one will consider), philosopher in the tradition of Hegel, (more ...) ❋ Unknown (2009)