Accompanied by orderlies carrying camp stools and table; night glasses and electric torches, halting repeatedly, hidden men taking down in writing the short, croaking sentences escaping between the thin compressed lips, the "GEIST of Metz" prowls round measuring every foot of ground fifty miles east, west, north, and south of his beloved Metz.
"The Secrets of the German War Office"
Dr. Armgaard Karl Graves
Towards midnight we rested a few minutes, and a head poking out of a casement directed us to the hotel of Der Heilige GEIST, where an apartment, thirty feet square, was prepared for our reception.
"Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents"
William Beckford
Blas was, I suppose, from blasen, to blow, and gas seems to be an attempt to get at the Sanskrit root underlying all such words as GEIST.
"Pioneers of Science"
Oliver Lodge