haunting
noun C2- A particular instance of haunting; a ghostly habitation. · During the haunting, strange voices and noises were heard and objects flew off tables.
Plural hauntings
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The rustle of the poplar leaves about the house worried her, it sounded so like pattering raindrops, and the full, faraway roar of the gulf, to which she listened delightedly at other times, loving its strange, sonorous, haunting rhythm, now seemed like a prophecy of storm and disaster to a small maiden who particularly wanted a fine day.
“I’ll be haunting the post office Wednesday,” vowed Diana.
At the end of the fortnight Anne took to “haunting” the post office also, in the distracted company of Jane, Ruby, and Josie, opening the Charlottetown dailies with shaking hands and cold, sinkaway feelings as bad as any experienced during the Entrance week.
Beyond lay the sea, misty and purple, with its haunting, unceasing murmur.
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