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Haunting   /hˈɔntɪŋ/   Listen
Haunting

adjective
1.
Continually recurring to the mind.  Synonym: persistent.  "The cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty"
2.
Having a deeply disquieting or disturbing effect.


Haunt

verb
(past & past part. haunted; pres. part. haunting)
1.
Follow stealthily or recur constantly and spontaneously to.  Synonym: stalk.  "The ghost of her mother haunted her"
2.
Haunt like a ghost; pursue.  Synonyms: ghost, obsess.
3.
Be a regular or frequent visitor to a certain place.  Synonym: frequent.





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"Haunting" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the great care upon his breast—the haunting thought that perhaps, after all, he had had something to do with John Grange's disappearance—now stood in old Tummus's cottage a different being. There was none of the rather pompous, important manner that he was in the habit of putting on when addressing ...
— A Life's Eclipse • George Manville Fenn
... Scansorial Picarians, however (if the reader with his proverbial courtesy will kindly pardon me the inevitable use of such very bad words), are essentially tree-haunters; and the tree-haunting and climbing habit, as is well beknown, seems particularly favourable to the growth of intelligence. Thus schoolboys climb trees—but I forgot: this is a scientific article, and such levity is inconsistent with the dignity of science. Let us be serious! Well, at any rate, monkeys, squirrels, ...
— Science in Arcady • Grant Allen
... for that line, and so many reference notes on different pages to be looked up before it was possible to ascertain with any degree of certainty what trains stopped at Horleydene on week-days, that, in her shaken frame of mind, with the necessity for hurry haunting her, she became confused, and failed to comprehend the perplexing figures. She signalled to the driver to stop, and handed him ...
— The Hampstead Mystery • John R. Watson
... words! Mine are ghostly children, Haunting all the ways; Latent in the plum bloom, Calling through the birds, Romping with the wheat brood ...
— The Second Book of Modern Verse • Jessie B. Rittenhouse
... stories the finest are The Pavilion on the Links, a tale of Sicilian vengeance and English love that is full of haunting mystery and the deadly fear of unknown assassins; Markheim, a brilliant example of this author's skill in laying bare the conflict of a soul with evil and its ultimate triumph; The Sire de Maletroit's Door, a vivid picture of the ...
— Modern English Books of Power • George Hamlin Fitch


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