revenant

Another revenant came back about that time, along the dimly blazed trails of fate.

The Jena was a remarkably fine and fast vessel, and, as the Revenant privateer, had formerly cruised long and very successfully.

Did I bestride a metempsychosized man-eater, a revenant from the bloody days of Nuka-hiva?

Now, when she thought of him at all, it was as of some revenant of kindly countenance from a half-forgotten dream.

Like that shadowy majesty of Denmark, our dramatic author was a "revenant."