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Word: drownedâ (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1928-1928
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...ripe with the years and their laurels, can still spin a worthy tale of peasant simplicities and spectral horrors. Dreary and revengeful, General Lowenskold's ghost hovered near the priceless ring that had been stolen from his tomb. The unhappy thief suffered?his barns burned down, his wife was drowned???but he dared not confess looting a grave, mortal offense. In time, the jewel of ill wake passed with its spectral guardian through unwitting, but nevertheless harassed, owners to the very descendants of Lowenskold. Far from treating his heirs more kindly, the ghostly grandsire bedevilled the son of the house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pervading Sadness | 6/4/1928 | See Source »

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