(See Carmilhan.)
“Or of that phantom ship, whose form
Shoots like a meteor through the storm;
When the dark scud comes driving hard,
And lowered is every topsail yard …
And well the doomed spectators know
ʹTis harbinger of wreck and woe.”
Sir Walter Scott: Rokeby, ii. 11.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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