revenant
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Even then there is a high chance the fire will reappear, like a smoking revenant, fed by hidden fuel buried in the invisible depths of the peat swamp.
From BBC ● Sep. 6, 2026
This reminded me, in Italian-American culture, of pastina — a grain that has deep, revenant importance throughout both Italy, America and many countries beyond that.
From Salon ● Jan. 26, 2024
Tulare Lake is not a phantom, but a revenant: that which returns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 29, 2023
“There is, incidentally, nothing odd in the revenant being a woman,” Rady said of the Polish case.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 7, 2022
Our revenant rowed to the side of a dock and held it with one hand.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
The imagery conjures a supernatural patchwork of revenants and Superman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2024
In 1746, a Benedictine monk named Antoine Augustin Calmet published a popular treatise that sought, among other things, to distinguish real revenants from frauds.
From New York Times ● Sep. 5, 2023
James’s tales of revenants and demons are to supernatural fiction.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 27, 2023
It is apparent that they are revenants in a kind of afterlife, their only pleasure articles from old English magazines about fly fishing and cricket.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2018
So tonight we sat and told our tales: Olakunde of Oyo, Pomp of marshy cunning-men and revenants, and me of Greece and Rome.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
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