It gave us ghosts and goblins, spooks and sprites, and little devils that swarmed in the bodies of men, and it gave us hell where the souls of men will roast in eternal flames.
There you will find no goblins, ghosts, wraiths or imps--no witches, spooks or sorcerers.
Only the last night he had heard the spooks at work--they were out shooting, at least it sounded as though they were.
They'd say I had been seeing spooks again, and Persimmons would kid the life out of me.
There are sure to be spooks around on an island that has seen so much of tragedy.
Compare, for instance, the spirits evoked by Henry James and Katherine Fullerton Gerould with the crude clap-trap of cloisteredspooks and armored knights of Gothic times.
The cottagers rebuke the spooks overhead when they grow too noisy, and a general good-fellowship prevails.
Gothic spookshaunted the villain or villainess to foil them in their wicked designs or punish them for past misdeeds, or hovered over the hero or heroine to advise, comfort, and chaperon them.
There was obviously much more leisure on the part of spooks as well as mortals then than now.
Emboldened by their success as individuals, spooks appear in groups and mobs.
His convivial spooks in their ghost club, his astrals who play pranks on mortals, and their confreres are examples of the modern flippancy toward supernaturals.
Likewise the domination of the Gothic castles, those "ghaist-alluring edifices," has passed away and modern spooks are not confined to any one locality as in the past.
Gothic spooks came back on occasion to reveal parentage, for parents, like valuables, were frequently mislaid in terror romance.
The spiritualists themselves admit that their table-rapping spooks are precious dull dogs; it would be difficult, in face of the communications recorded, for them to deny it.
Ray was also enthralled, and he was half convinced that the forest might, after all, contain spooks and goblins.
A flock of spooks danced on the screen, rendered against the ballroom scene.
I've put that team onto something else, a kinematics routine for a class of flying spooks that use gasbags to stay aloft -- silent and scary.
Man has not really vanquished Shamanism and its spooks till he possesses the strength to lay aside not only the belief in ghosts or in spirits, but also the belief in the spirit.
More, Inkoos; as I watched yesternight I heard strange sounds, as though the spooks (ghosts) were mourning over the dead one who lies below us.
But being just a plain man of affairs, mostly of this world, I find spooks needless to my peace and comfort.
The internal dissent among the Silent Spooks disappeared as if it had never been, as they faced a common foe.
He could see how it had worked: one of the Silent Spooks was a lot smaller than a grown man, and the two cops who hadn't seen anyone in the parked car just hadn't been able to catch sight of the undersized driver.
I--The Spooksdo have a sort of secret meeting place, you know.
All of the Spooks are rather slight, as a matter of fact.
They were sure that Mike planned to raid the sporting-goods store with the rest of the Spooks that night.
They say the Spooksare magicians--that they can come and go at will.
Malone concentrated on just one thing: holding an image of the room, with the eight Spooks in it.
It was obvious by now that Mike Fueyo and his Silent Spooks had been stealing the Cadillacs.
No Chinese spooks are going to keep us apart, my girl, not if I can help it.
I wonder, if I pretended to fall in love with Marietta Hoag, if those Chinese spooks of hers would send word to Cap'n Jeth that I was really a fairly decent citizen.
Bridge, "and spooks or no spooks we'll find a dry spot in that old ruin.
I know the joint--its hanted--they's spooks in it.
I never thought I'd ever have the nerve to come up here, and break in on the enchanted ground given over to hobgoblins and spooks and owls ever so many years.
All the same those people who don't believe in spooks and goblins and all such things couldn't be hired for any amount of money to camp out in that big house for just one dark night.
One and all, my selected group of spooks went out on strike.
If the Illinois spooksare as Illinoisome as you are, I will summon the board of health and have them laid without more ado.
But one thing is 'cause he makes fun of the spooks here.
Yes, I did, but after they took things into their own hands, and played spooks themselves, what was the use?
Why, I happen to know that the spooks warned that little Reid girl she'd die at four o'clock, and die she did, jest at four!
No spooks ever killed off those two people in a minute, just like that!
As near as I can make out, that ghost was Stebbins himself, but no spooks after that was Stebbins' doings.
You are not at all interesting, but you are truthful, and wespooks hate libellers.
I had half a notion that the word "spook" would draw him out, for I have noticed that ghosts do not like to be called spooks any more than negroes like to be called "niggers.
Ordered out on strike, and won't do any haunting after sundown unless some other employer of unskilled ghosts pays his spooks skilled wages.
Some of the Ghosts did goggle, some of the Spooks did stare, But there they sat in a spectral row round "the Squirts" in Trafalgar Square.
I used to think a spectre was a spectre, but I find The "Psychical" can furnish Spooks of every class and kind.
I went down to the Psychical Society one night, And heard them talk of Spooks and things that filled me with affright.
I tried to get a word or two from men of arts and letters, They said they drew the line at Spooks who made a noise with fetters.
The Spirits or Spooks from the vasty deep that can be called and will come when Stead-ily and persistently summoned will not be the first to speak.
My ghost was coming in haste,--a haste that did not harmonize with the stately tread of the spooks of popular superstition.
They believed in devils andspooks as most primitive people do.
They moved in a world of devils and spooks and only a few occasional angels.
Some of these new spooksare notoriously good company.
But in these days of individualism and radical liberalism, spooks as well as mortals are expanding their personalities and indulging in greater freedom.
As soon as he felt that the spooks were listening to him he explained the situation to them.
There are various English stories of whimsical haunting, some of actual spooks and some of the hoax type.
Stockton gave his to funny spooks with a riotous and laughing pen.
These spooks of Eliphalet Duncan's were ghosts with all modern improvements, and I guess they were capable of providing their own musical weapons.
Now spooks can't quarrel when they are a hundred miles apart any more than men can.
I remember the Rhine and the Black Forest and all the other haunts of elves and fairies and hobgoblins; but for good honest spooks there is no place like home.
As a matter of fact, the photographic ghost is an easily explained phenomenon, and any amateur can turn out creepy spooks by the thousand at the expense of a little time and patience.
The brilliant editor of the Review of Reviews, a deep believer in spirit manifestations, argued that these photographs afforded the most conclusive proofs of the playful habit spookshave of returning to the scenes of their earthly labours.
You now know where the spooks came from, in this particular house, and how they got in and out.
When four hands were visible there were two spooks at work with both arms illuminated.
They are the spectres of our heart's desires, the red-winged birds of paradise that we might have kept by us for life but allowed to escape, the spooks of the old order, of the heathenism that is in us.
For that night the spooks of ancient heathenism are unchained.
As a home of the spooks the brakes or bracken rivalled the hawthorn,[395] and it was generally believed that by eating fern or bracken seed one became invisible.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "spooks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
