Ghostlike amidst the unfamiliar Past, 3 Dim shadows flit along the streams of Time; Vainly our learning trifles with the vast Unknown of ages!
Ghostlike the sounds; a founder of his race Seem'd in that voice the haunter of the place.
A sudden turn of the path brought her within sight of the cross-ways and of the old gallows, on which a fragment of rain-spattered rag still fluttered ghostlike in the wind.
I felt that my moody silence and ghostlike appearance (for I was dressed in black) threw a gloom over them.
Seared and blasted by a thousand storms, they stand stern and silent, ghostlike and immoveable, scorning the elements.
The grand avenue was bridged by tri-coloured balloons floating and shimmering ghostlike far up in the dark sky.
A great lump rose in her throat as she caught the first view of the Executive Mansion gleaming white and silent and ghostlike among the budding trees.
The ghostlike shadowy columns moved slowly with the deliberate consciousness of power.
It was but seldom now that his thoughts busied themselves with Maud; the unreal importance which she had for a time assumed in his life was only a recollection; her very face was ghostlike in his mind's eye, dim, always vanishing.
Presently they entered the spruce forest of a river valley, dead and cold, haunted by weird shadows, flitting ghostlike hither and thither across ghastly white patches of moonlit snow.
A lazy warm breeze from the land waved the thin curtains in a ghostlike fashion.
She crossed the lawn swiftly, a white, ghostlike figure.
Red lights and green lights on ghostlike shadows dotted the stretch of foggy water.
Perched on a whirl of spokes gleaming in the moonlight, a lean black figure in rumpled hose, with flying cloak, slipped ghostlike through the narrow streets at incredible speed.
A large bat whisked across the opening, and as they started back alarmed he returned with swift zig-zag cuts and vanished ghostlike into the house.
It doubtless had been kept covered up during the many years it had been painted, and thus had a freshness and vigour which was absolutely startling in comparison with the faded, ghostlike specimens to be seen around.
Mr Grant, however, shook his head, and remained for five minutes in profound silence, during which time the two friends puffed in concert, until they began to grow quite indistinct and ghostlike in the thick atmosphere.
But the horses were restless, moving all the time, and as they moved she caught glimpses of that other coach and of Chauvelin's ghostlike figure, walking rapidly through the mist.
So many of the church-bells and clock towers had been silenced recently that not one of those welcome sounds penetrated to the dreary desolation of this canal wharf, with its abandoned carts standing ghostlike in a row.
At her head crouched the negress, her white garments showing ghostlike through the gloom.
Beyond, the woods had been burnt, the trees rising from the red ground like charred and blackened stakes, with the ghostlike mist between.
Those occasional strains of melody had a ghostlike sound to Irene's ear, and always saddened her.
She went along the avenue, muffled in her gray cloth cloak, a ghostlike figure, the boy following her as fast as his legs would carry him.
On bringing the picture out upon the plate, he was surprised to find a shadowy representation of a human being, so remarkably ghostlike and supernatural, that he became amused at the discovery he had made.
We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world, which is itself so slight and unreal.
Ghostlike we glide through nature, and should not know our place again.
Lady Valeria turned at the end of the verandah, and faced him deliberately in the bright, cold moonlight, a white and ghostlike figure, with pale face and flashing eyes.
It was an infinite relief to him to know that Lady Valeria was on the other side of the Channel, that her pale face could not rise before him ghostlike amidst the home which she had ruined.
The flame of the lamp flickered dimly, in the chimney the charcoal glowed away into white shimmering ashes, a ghostlike ticking was the only sound heard.
The girl rose and moved off toward the van looming ghostlikethrough the trees.
Surely the old desk, locked this many a year, might hold some breath of the tragedy that had ghostlike trailed her footsteps.
Aunt Agatha went to bed to listen tremblingly while the dare-devil dance of the flute tripped ghostlike through the corridors.
Nature seemed exquisitely at peace, in comparison with the tumultuous emotions she had gone through: she could faintly hear the ripple of the river and the occasional soft and ghostlike fall of a dead leaf from a tree.
Alan felt that he would not be surprised to learn that his father never had entered these ghostlike rooms since the day his wife had left him.
She mounted the stairs slowly as if she was infinitely weary; Mark watched the graceful, ghostlike form gliding upwards until the gloom had swallowed it up.
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