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Example sentences for "haunted house"

  • THE LADY IN BLACK A ghost in a haunted house is seldom observed with anything like scientific precision.

  • They preceded him to put the place in order, and before his arrival came to me in some irritation complaining that I had let them a haunted house!

  • Here he heard of a haunted house, known to the local newspapers as "The Great Amherst Mystery".

  • In these cases we have generally to suppose a simple rapport between mind and mind, but in a haunted house we have a rapport complicated by its apparent dependence on locality.

  • The case was fully described in a paper entitled "Record of a Haunted House," by Miss R.

  • There is a haunted house close to here,” he said to me one evening; “if you like to come with me I will introduce you to the owner.

  • I have a great many friends amongst actors and actresses, and I find them not only keenly interested in my work, but always ready—even when working hard themselves—to share my vigils in a haunted house.

  • Indeed, ten years previously it had only one anything like orthodox street; so that it was the last place in the world where one would expect to come across a haunted house.

  • In a haunted house that I was asked to visit in Sussex I saw nothing, but heard knockings, and by means of them tried, though without success, to establish a code.

  • You excite my curiosity," said I; "nothing I should like better than to sleep in a haunted house.

  • I have discovered a haunted house in the midst of London.

  • Accordingly, about half-past nine, I put the book into my pocket and strolled leisurely toward the haunted house.

  • One day, when I was visiting my convalescent friend, Torfrida informed me that she knew of a haunted house in Edinburgh, a case which she felt sure would arouse my interest and enthusiasm.

  • I cannot stop to analyze the sensation with which I crossed the threshold of this mystery-haunted house, and entered the quaint, old-fashioned parlor, where the supper table was set.

  • I didn't ask Aunt Beatrice to leave me a haunted house.

  • And you know it isn't everybody who can own a haunted house.

  • I said," said Billie, speaking very distinctly and enjoying the sensation she had caused, "that Aunt Beatrice left me a haunted house.

  • Did he never hear of such-and-such a haunted house, or place?

  • Then I guess Grace will believe this is a haunted house," said Flora, a little triumphantly.

  • Well, whether you believe it or not, everybody knows that this is a haunted house," persisted Flora.

  • A haunted house, you calculate, will be much more intriguing by night.

  • The bobbing lantern light across the brook had been seen by those around the campfire as well as by the girls who had entered the haunted house.

  • Of course, Mary's foolish story of the ghost had started the girls off on the stampede when Jess and Nellie and Dora had run from the haunted house.

  • Like most of the old authors Thyraeus quotes Augustine's tale of a haunted house, and an exorcism in De Civitate Dei (lib.

  • When we hear of a haunted house, we imagine that the ghost is always on view, or that he has a benefit night, at certain fixed dates, when you know where to have him.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    agricultural people; brave bonny; common measure; excess mortality; fathom water; foul weather; geologic time; good wishes; haunted house; haunted houses; haunted woodland; hill and down dale; human prudence; little girls; many points; nobody would; practical guide; printed from; she sent; successive ages; that lady; what remained; white water; would drive