Laura is unreachable – the few physical descriptions are vague, almost impalpable as the love he pines for, and such is perhaps the power of his verse, which lives off the melodies it evokes against the fading, diaphanous image that is no more consistent than a ghost.

Scores of other mining camps have faded into ghost towns, but quite a few camps such as Central City, Black Hawk, Georgetown, and Idaho Springs survive.

This ghost band played to very large audiences all across the United States, including a few dates at the Hollywood Palladium in 1947, where the original Miller band played in 1941.

Plutarch famously reported that Brutus experienced a vision of a ghost a few months before the battle.

Recent arson has destroyed a few of the historic buildings of the Rush ghost town.

By the end of the century, it was a virtual ghost town, a rural health clinic one of its few surviving businesses.

He worked as a ghost artist for a few weeks in 1966 on the comic strip Peter Scratch ( 1965 – 1967 ), a hardboiled detective serial created by writer Elliot Caplin and artist Lou Fine.

Reportedly a letter from the ghost was found on the steps of Caldwell along with a few drops of blood.

A few species are familiar to the aquarium trade, such as the black ghost knifefish ( Apteronotus albifrons ), the glass knifefish ( Eigenmannia virescens ), and the banded knifefish ( Gymnotus carapo ).

In the words of Léon Blum, the Socialist opposition was amazed and disappointed that the ghost of Tardieu's government reappeared within a few weeks of being defeated with Laval, " like a night bird surprised by the light " at its head.

Theatres that have stood for more than a few decades tend to have lots of associated ghost stories, more than other public buildings of similar age.

Even though such a form has found its way into a few modern Japanese dictionaries ( for example even Kindaiichi's otherwise generally reliable Jikai ), it is in fact simply one of the ghost words of Japanese lexicography ; when it does appear in modern lexical sources, it is a " made-up " form listed there solely on the basis of the Wei chih account of early Japan.

It rises in northern Gunnison County in the Elk Mountains on the north side of Schofield Pass, passing through the ghost town of Crystal City, still inhabited by a few summer residents.

Expressionless, the ghost watches Ash for a few moments, then gives an eerie smile.

Bussana Vecchia ( Old Bussana ) is a 100 year old ghost town in Liguria, a few kilometers from the Italian-French border.

Even then, the difficulty of transportation ensured that few settlements ( most of them created for mining ) lasted long — the ghost towns of the Yukon, Northwest Territories and increasingly Siberia illustrate this.

In Bing Crosby's final Christmas special, taped for CBS in England just a few weeks before Crosby's death in 1977, Baxter played multiple roles, including a butler, cook, Charles Dickens and-in one skit opposite a cracking-up Crosby-the ghost of Bob Hope's court jester ancestor.

The inn is located in a virtual ghost town due to rumors regarding vampirism that sprung up a few years past.

Sadler himself wrote only the first few books, the remainder being assigned by the publishers to ghost writers though issued under his name.

Her ghost is walking around with her hands still locked in the stocks covered with a few cobwebs and dry leaves.

Taabinga quickly declined into a ghost town by the end of World War I and today the original Taabinga Homestead and a few outbuildings are all that remain of it.

Both formerly independent settlements, Central Patricia now consists only of a few buildings located at the terminus of Highway 599 within the township, while Pickle Crow is a ghost town.

Jamie returns a few weeks after the marriage, looking like a ghost.

When the group led by ousted President Charles Sherman retained physical control over the paper after the union's 1906 Convention, and continued publication under that name for a few months ( before giving up the ghost ), the IWW instead issued the Industrial Union Bulletin for several years.

Telephone service, however, is largely limited to the islands ' few towns.

In the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland, and New Zealand, few towns are without a fish and chip shop.

In the course of a few hours, nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies and cities lost their special privileges.

A few towns were starting to emerge.

Craftsmen formed guilds, governed by strict rules, which sought to obtain control of the towns ; a few were open to women.

In the course of a few hours, nobles, clergy, towns, provinces, companies, and cities lost their special privileges.

The crusaders arrived at Jerusalem in June 1099 ; a few of the neighbouring towns ( Ramla, Lydda, Bethlehem, and others ) were taken first, and Jerusalem itself was captured on July 15.

Although communist networks in Phnom Penh and in other towns under Tou Samouth's jurisdiction fared better, only a few hundred communists remained active in the country by 1960.

They were primarily farmers who lived in towns, organized into small kingdoms, however, within three decades an estimated Indian population of one million plummeted to a few tens of thousands, as approximately half of the indigenous people in western Nicaragua died of diseases brought by the Spaniards.

English resistance was reduced to a few isolated castles, walled towns and fortified manor houses.

Nonetheless, passenger boats are still popular in some mountainous regions, such as Western Hubei and Chongqing ( the Three Gorges area ), where railways are few and road access to many towns is inconvenient.

The cities were very small, really no more than towns, and were concentrated along the coast and in a few inland valleys.

A few towns in Italy began building in the new style late in the 1480s, but it was only with the French invasion of the Italian peninsula in 1494 – 95 that the new fortifications were built on a large scale.

) Because ranching required little labor, merely a few gauchos, the interior lacked a peasantry and large towns.

Unguja, the larger island, offered a protected and defensible harbor, so although the archipelago offered few products of value, the Persians settled at what became Zanzibar City (" Stone Town ") as a convenient point from which to trade with East African coastal towns.

Although a few towns with New York land titles, notably Brattleboro on the Connecticut River, supported the change, the vast majority of the settlers in the sparsely populated frontier region rejected the authority of New York.

Horncastle is situated only a few miles from his Revesby Estate and Banks himself was the towns Lord of the Manor.

A few towns in the Low Countries dated back to Roman times, but most had been founded from the 9th century onward.

Ferrara has many early Renaissance palaces, often retaining terracotta decorations ; few towns of Italy as small have so many, though most are comparatively small in size.

Though supported only by the towns and a few of the younger barons, he triumphed by superior generalship at the Battle of Lewes on 14 May 1264, where the king, Prince Edward, and Richard of Cornwall fell into his hands.

Though most of India has migrated to motorised auto rickshaws, hand-pulled rickshaws do exist in a few pockets and towns.

Abandoned mills and factories can be found in small towns and villages, and a few have been converted to tourist attractions, such as the coal mine at La Mure.

There have been few efforts to eliminate the two-seat arrangement, since a county seat is a source of pride ( and jobs ) for the towns involved.