errand-ghost
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5ADJ.
religious
VERB + ERRAND-GHOST
hope
ERRAND-GHOST + NOUN
rider
PREP.
in, on
ADV.
actually
Definitions
noun
A spirit or spiritual messenger; an angel.
Their simple directness of character may account for the well-nigh entire absence (as I said before) of all expression of religious hope. "God's Errand-Ghost," the Rider on the Pale Horse, has passed by that way, and one in the house — it may be the most loved of all, — is dead. There is no shirking of that bare truth, no attempt to soften it.
If that was really insulting, please don't be offended. I certainly don't think of you as my errand-ghost. Actually, I think of you as my friend.
Any spirit or ghostly messenger.
In regard of the previous question – do you also choose empty localizations deliberately? Is this to strengthen the fright for loneliness and silence, the same fright that the errand ghost of those haunted places feels?
Death is not unknown to him, but she has perished / And her errand ghost wanders through the night.
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3Their simple directness of character may account for the well-nigh entire absence (as I said before) of all expression of religious hope. "God's Errand-Ghost," the Rider on the Pale Horse, has passed
WiktionaryIf that was really insulting, please don't be offended. I certainly don't think of you as my errand-ghost. Actually, I think of you as my friend.
WiktionaryIf Jesus were not God, He would have told lede to not worship Him, just as the errand-ghost in Bring to Lightings did.
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