She closed her eyes, but it was not with her natural vision that she saw the outline of phantom forms and ghoulish faces that filled the room.
That it might be myself, prompted by some ghoulish influence of sleep and night, made my very heart sick.
Did the silly creatures suspect me of playing ghoulishtricks to terrify a child?
The inky sea of darkness that hemmed her in on every side suggested every sort of ghoulish possibility, and with each pulsation of her overstrained heart her flesh crawled.
I blew my nose, and had barely ceased marvelling at the loudness of its reverberations, before the piercing, ghoulish shriek of an owl sent the blood in torrents to my heart.
In the middle of the night I saw a ghoulish figure, wearing a large, black mantle and with stark, staring eyes, stalking me from bed to bed.
Beyond the line of infantry that separated us from the Turk, some jackals howled in ghoulish song.
Hence he kept pressing Madam Winthrop in a most unpleasant and ghoulish manner to know what she would give him in case she died.
His ghoulish laughter rose in the dark stillness of the jungle, and the hair stirred on my scalp.
Well have these ghoulish phantoms feasted; whole islands are theirs, and soon they will sit upon the paepae of the last Marquesan.
Soon you will stand before the Lord Lansa, and then," he added with a grim and ghoulish humor, "neither I nor anybody else will be bothered with you any more.
One in particular, whose wide green face was made hideous by an old scar that had put out one of his eyes, licked his thick lips in ghoulish anticipation as his fingers prodded the flesh about Gerry's ribs and felt the Earth-man's muscles.
He turned sharply round to find himself alone, gazing at the old sexton, as he gave him one of his ghoulish grins--more hideous than ever.
Don't you think that--" He made a significant sign towards the coffin, and there was a strange leer upon his ghoulish face.
Ghoulish parasites, uncanny saprophytes, for their matted roots prey either on the juices of living plants or on the decaying matter of dead ones, how weirdly beautiful and decorative, they are!
A glance at the extraordinary formation under ground reveals the fact that the coral-roots, although related to the most aristocratic and highly organized plants in existence, have stooped to become ghoulish saprophytes.
They seemed to take a ghoulish satisfaction in it.
There seemed something ghoulish even in their very deploring of the state of things.
And beyond the waters were churned by huge ghoulish forms that the blood of goats had gathered there.
And below in the room the two men for a little sat not speaking of the ghoulish thing.
I knew not at what moment I might plunge headlong into some terrible pit or meet with some of the ghoulish creatures that inhabit these lower worlds beneath the dead cities of dying Mars.
I said alone: but no, two ghoulish ship's cats came howling at us for the bits.
It was now the business of Rinaldo and the rest of the Paladins, by the help of Magicce the good wizard, to release their captured brethren from the ghoulish old witch.
The fire, at that moment stirred by an enthusiast, illumined the village brilliantly, enabling me to watch the subsequent movements of these ghoulish fiends.
We have fallen into the hands of the ghoulish Avisibba!
Surely, one would think, that nocturnal prowler of pre-War Paris had been so long dead and buried even the most ghoulish gossip should respect his poor remains and not disinter them merely to demonstrate that the Past can never wholly die!
A vast multitude of witches and goblins are flocking to the summit; the midnight air resounds with their shrieks and jabberings; weird lights flash from every quarter, revealing thronging swarms of ghoulish shapes and dancing Hexen.
Of all the Red Bones who had swept in such ghoulish glee into that clearing not one now remained alive.
He could tell of the Curdled Sea, like milk set apart for cheese-making, which flowed as fast as a river, and brought down ghoulish beasts and great dragons in its tide.
The thralls returned to their oars and the voices of the well-born fell low again These were ghoulish days for Biorn, who had been accustomed to the clear lights and the clear darkness of his own land.
And, with a ghoulish interest in horrors, the dowager prepared herself for a detailed narration of Mrs. Tregonell's last illness; but Christabel could only falter out a few brief sentences.
It was the face he had seen in his dreams, the twisted lips, the evil, ghoulish face of the man he had hunted to the ends of the earth.
It was the huge, ghoulish face that had come to him again and again in his dreams; the face full of hatred and viciousness--pale and inhuman.
It was chalk white--a face of pure ghoulish evil, staring at him.
