Word: hauntedness
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It was a strenuous, heart-breaking ordeal. Under a constant nervous strain, working long hours, haunted by the fear of blundering, learning that doctors were capable of alibiing themselves by blaming nurses, the girls often went to pieces, lost credit for months of work by hysterical outbursts or reckless dissipation...
Since publication of these marvels in Powers That Be and The Invisible Influence, Dr. Cannon has enjoyed a voluminous correspondence with "businessmen and occultists, parsons and Indian colonels, doctors and judges, hard-headed lawyers, and women haunted by poltergeists."
Hero-narrator of Author Sandemose's book, however, is not a retired litterateur but a retired murderer. Espen Arnakke, 34, has settled in Norway, become a respectable paterfamilias. Still haunted by the memory of the murder he committed 17 years ago, he tries to lay the ghost by telling...
Sea-haunted, river emblemed, o the gray
The picture of which Doris Lee is fondest is The Runaway, showing a girl in a streaming yellow dress gripping the mane of a bolting horse. The Haunted House is a dilapidated structure, surrounded by grim and groping trees, with all the windows on the third floor boarded up except...