A chaos of white water, rendered ghostly and grey by darkness.
Nay, the living must speak first, or the ghostly dead depart unquestioned.
It seemed very ghostly to go back to the ambitions of that time, but the audience, a parlor one, expressed great satisfaction.
A ghostly army of warriors seemed to escort me as I entered the fair, broad territory.
Do I want these books, or do their ghostly authors seize me wandering near the shelves, impanel me by the button-hole, and insist upon pouring their bottled-up wisdom into my passive mind?
And every time she drew the dripping lock from its stagnant bath, it glimmered with an unearthly phosphorescence, that shed a ghostly light upon the hollow, and all that it contained.
And she remembered that this night was Midsummer Eve, and by the position of the ghostly moon she saw it was close on midnight.
The gliding of theghostly swans became rare and more rare.
The one sign of movement and life to be seen was the ghostly gliding of the swans on the dead-still surface of the water.
Even as though it had been timed, as it might well have been, a torpedo dropped from a ghostly shape drifting slowly across the grey November clouds.
The ghostlyshape pictured on the great reflector was bigger and brighter now, although, to his great comfort, none of the scientific papers had made any mention of its discovery by other observers.
Little sound of life was there, from bird, or beast, or insect; and this of itself added to the grey and ghostly chill which seemed to brood over the place; for in that country night was wont to utter with more voices than day.
And then above the ghostly wreathings of the white mist I could see the gigantic head--the huge horns curving upwards--of the ghost-beast.
Suddenly a match flared and the twinkling tip of light grew at a candle end and she saw a ghostly figure, its white hand busy with the candle wick and its hollow, black eyes fixed on the tiny growing flame.
There is a ghostly tapping (as of some departed spirit who would fain enter once again into the old halls so long forgotten) against the window pane.
After which crumb of ghostly consolation she proceeds to turn Nixy out of the house.
First, Plantagenet, before we go any further into your ghostly schemes, answer me this: is there any gunpowder about it?
It is to be supposed, withal, that Angelo has been wont to set himself up as an example of ghostly rectitude, and to reflect somewhat on the laxity of the Duke's administration.
It would be easy to quote other equally quaint and romantic stories which are told in connection with the sports and pastimes of Tyrol, but that of the pedlar and the ghostly knights or men-at-arms must suffice.
Nothing abashed he undertook the task which was a difficult one owing to the fact that each key, door, and ghostly visitant were exactly alike.
Then--around the window crept something like a sad, sighing, ghostly voice.
He was indefatigable, too, and most successful in his exhortations and ghostly consolations to the people.
It is an awesome thing to seek repose beside one wrapped in trance; it is worse to traverse unlighted halls and ghostly stairs in an effort to awake the gifted medium's family.
Presently, as befitted the atmosphere and hour, the talk of the little circle fell upon things ghostly and mysterious--strange happenings and prophetic dreams.
A little ghostly consolation for the maharajah's sins!
But there was no consolation, ghostlyor otherwise, being brought to Gungadhura.
I know torn thistles by the creek Hang hairy with the frost; the tented Brown acres of the corn stretch bleak And ghostly in the moonlight, weak In hollows bitter-scented.
Three times around it pass, With never a sound; Each time a wisp of grass And myrtle pluck, and pass Out of theghostly ground; 6.
This giant oak Floods from the Alleghanies bore To wedge here by this sycamore; Its wounded bulk, heart-rotted white, Lights ghostly foxfire in the night.
Six strokes; and wailing out The music hoots away; The fiery glimmer of eve dies dimmer, The red grows ghostly gray.
But no explanation of this sort is adequate in the case of Miss Goodrich-Freer, who passed a night at Hampton Court for the sole purpose of ascertaining whether or not there was any foundation for its ghostly legends.
The same explanation would obviously apply to the ghostly vision seen on the lawn by Mrs. M.
Every once in a while ghostlydrumming is heard at Cortachy Castle, and always the death of an Ogilvy follows.
So, too, a pillow-slip swaying from a clothesline is apt to seem most ghostly to a gentleman returning home from a late supper.
Wild and desolate was the spot, ghostly and weird the hour, yet Henri d'Estrailles smiled as he turned from scanning the refuge thus found to the trembling girl at his side.
The raindrops that splattered against the grey walls without seemed to be fingers knocking for admittance, ghostly fingers which mocked and gibed whilst the wind voices wept and lamented the louder.
The memory of the unrepentant friar who so grimly strolled around the earthly scene of his sins came vividly before her, and as she bent her eyes she fully expected to see them rest upon the shadowy cowl of the chapel's ghostly inhabitant.
Bay Tom whirled along in the splendid dusk, his nostrils flaring ghostlybanners of steam on the cold, crisp air.
Mrs. Ridings, kneeling by the bed and taking the ghostly hands of the sufferer in her own warm and soft palms.
I had watched the ghostly shape disappear in the darkness as it shook off the beams of the searchlights, and when it appeared again it was as a descending comet of streaming flame streaking earthward across the north-western heavens.
This time he seized the Chevalier's ghostly arm above the elbow, gave it a mighty squeeze.
