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Sentence Examples For those who drove at night, a ghostly apparition would sometimes cross their headlight beam, turning towards them its own glaring headlights. The figure, in its nakedness, has an almost ghostly, insubstantial quality, a pathetic vulnerability. I almost fancy I hear a ghostly mocking chuckle from the late and unlamented Stanley Wardley. The second finale replaces the sostenuto passage in the first finale with a ghostly toccata. As an unreported case, it enters law as a ghostly, sourceless illustration of circumstances that law will not recognize. In the ghostly tale, she is viciously beaten by invisible hands, dragged screaming across the bedroom floor, and suspended in midair. The Observer is on the lookout for ghostly goings-on in local haunted houses and tales of the spine-tingling supernatural. Yet when we look again, they are simultaneously pale, frozen, ghostly and glassy eyed. The brothers then went on tour, filling theatres with ghostly music, flying coats and spirit voices. Legendary whales appear as immense cachalots and tend to appear ghostly, with white or very light grey hides that meld in with the briney foam. The ashes are all that is left and the body has been reduced so that the ghostly figure looks both handless and headless. Hence the use of collage, the endlessly repainted surfaces, the emphasis on ghostly traces within the underlying strata of the painting. For example, in Slovenian folklore the blind and ghostly pale cave salamander Proteus anguinus is thought to be the larval stage of a dragon. A woman cavorted in the rubble in a ghostly dance out of sync with the throbbing music. The strip lights above you cast a sickly ghostly light through the metal cubicle. Likewise, Faraday thought that electric fields somehow manipulated charged particles with ghostly hands. It's a chillingly honest picture of a man confronting his mortality, with turquoise eyes peering out of a ghostly white mask. Since Luke's brush with the paranormal several guests claim to have seen the ghostly girl. No sign remained there of the ghostly ichthyoids that had emerged from the waves the night before. In the white squares framed by the crossing bands, ghostly points of complementary color hover. Show More Sentences It was not till I was aware of these ghostly faces that the full piteousness of the ruin that had been wrought was revealed to me. Grandma and grandpa were there too, only in like a sort of ghostly insubstantial form. There is a slight nod, a ghostly intangible feeling of her gloved palm against my cheek, and a sensation of motherly warmth. His own image is usually part of the ensemble, but often appears ghostly and intangible compared with the heavy sparkle of the box itself. Lines pulse or vibrate, and ghostly dots flash at the intersections of lines. Ezra poled us slowly along the edge of the flat, I squinted into the water seeking one of those grey ghostly silver bullets. At first glance, you might think the ghostly white snowberries and the coralberries have nothing in common. If only this Haunted Mansion suffered from the same kind of vague, ghostly poorness, it might fly. In the final scene, sulfur-hued powder flurried down on the group, resulting in a ghostly entombment. She is preoccupied with the supernatural, in this particular instance ghostly presences. The ghost bats have translucent-looking creamy-coloured wings, so in flight they do look ghostly indeed. The story is connected to the present by a woman, renting a cottage in Haworth, who sees a ghostly figure. Her ghostly figure has been seen at the foot of the stairs by visitors and staff. Long gone are the days when all it took for a good fright was an unexpected ghostly face to appear onscreen. Jackson has wide, ghostly eyes, unusually pale skin, and traces of a beard and moustache. Often eerie and ghostly, but always captivating, these songs simply demand your attention. Survivors, covered from head to toe in white dust, cut ghostly figures as they stood coughing. In the harsh light cast by the sun against the snow, she appeared ghostly, unreal, eerily beautiful. So that ghostly form that appears in front of your car at night may very well be a tawny. Strange noises, ghostly footsteps and ice cold winds haunt staff working late into the night. Show More Sentences And there's no shortage of folk willing to go public about their ghostly experiences. A ghostly figure appeared next to Max and stood, watching the band with him. Her eyes widened, as she stared at a ghostly figure, standing in the middle of the clearing. Her whole body has a ghostly appearance, although there's nothing to see through it. Paul's ghostly figure followed behind, unseen and undetected by everyone but her. The rising gibbous moon was ghostly from New Jersey, but by the Manhattan evening it was sharp and bright. The moon glanced off of the young woman's long, white-blonde hair, making it glow with ghostly light. All the activities had a ghostly theme and they even made ghostly glove puppets. The family, including nine children, were all sleeping downstairs because of the ghostly goings-on upstairs at their home. He turned to see Ned staggering, and then collapsing on to the floor, his face ghostly grey with beads of sweat across his forehead. She opened her eyes to look around the room she was in, but could only see dim shapes in the ghostly moonlight. Small ghostly figures in protective gear are dimly discernible as they approach the tent. Soon all that was left was nothing more than a ghostly echo of a guilty conscience. Ahead, the divided highway sped eastward in two directions, flanked by a ghostly procession of villas. His gravestone is located in front of a quintet of ghostly musicians who eternally perform in the attraction's memorable graveyard scene. And more ghostly unicorns were emerging from the light, their heads held high, their bodies flashing with ethereal light. Her face looked peaceful, lit by ethereal moonlight filtering through the ghostly branches of the fairy tree. The image of her twin provides a reference to the doppleganger, the ghostly double, the other self. Last year the ghostly galleon survived the worst autumn gales and has since been dry-docked in a hay-shed in Dowra. The site has loads of ghost stories, haunted places that you can visit and ghostly photos. Show More Sentences At 0300 hours the mist had lifted and the yellow light from the gas lamps cast a ghostly radiance that was reflected from the wet road cobbles. Again, a ghostly figure rose from the body, and nodded its thanks before leaving to the afterworld. Models sauntered along a catwalk sprinkled with black sequins wearing triangular crimped wigs and sporting ghostly white faces. Bamboo flutes add a ghostly, subtle melodic backbone to the more intricate interplay on the keyed instruments. Two vampire bats were hanging up side down at 2am on the morning on All Hallows' Eve awaiting the most ghostly day of the year. Overhead, the full moon leered yellowly between ghostly wisps of cloud, and the Cathedral bells began to chime. She walks resolutely away, conscious of being spied upon by a ghostly face at every window. The reconstructed summary reworks the opinion into forceful testimony about Gray's ghostly presence in his co-defendant's confession. Miranda, not her, but a ghostly apparition of what she was, rose up on the roof of the car. The scares come from things that go bump in the night rather than from ghostly apparitions making visitations. In several prints, texts are etched across aquatinted backgrounds in which ghostly, half-remembered realities float. The original house was built on an ancient graveyard and its last owner is rumoured to have fled in terror at the ghostly goings on. Her dark eyes were maddened, her hair a fiery torch around her ghostly white face. This week whilst at his daily travail Charles discovered one of his frypans has been miraculously scorched with a ghostly image of the madonna. These lanterns were mangel-wurzels or pumpkins hollowed out with a ghostly face cut into them, illuminated by a candle placed inside. Confronting ghostly apparitions of Annabel, he is overwhelmed by guilt for forcing her to have children to prove his manhood. Viewers walking about become ghostly figures in empty rooms, their tangible bodies transformed into shadows whenever they pass behind the scrims. This meant there was something ghostly nearby, or a pungent concentration of slime, or Robbie Neilson's scungy pyjamas. His golden glows and ghostly, bluish lights articulate masses more elemental than any particular subject in nature. There was a particular spot that I loved, on the bridge over the river, where ghostly whirls of mist drifted lazily over the water's surface. Show More Sentences And yet that billboard vouchsafes to one of the novel's minor characters, J. Edgar's ghostly Sister, a vision of beatitude. The whole is accompanied by a ghostly, premonitory sound of deep tolling bells. Some women used belladonna to pale their complexions to a ghostly pallor but Antonia's mother had forbidden this, fearing her daughter's health. From his seat on the floor, he could see the church, its steeple glowing, soft and pale and ghostly. It shook him to the core with a ghostly shaft of fear impaling his quivering heart. The figures are the ghostly shapes of bowmen who fell during the battles of the Hundred Years' War. Its heroes, whose ghostly presences are often quoted in Kitaj's paintings, are the shipless helmsmen of modernism. The room was dark except for the light from the computer monitor, which cast a ghostly blue shade on the mother and daughter's faces. There have been reported sightings of a ghostly figure wandering through the pub in Shirley. He smiled down at me, his smile the only thing I could see perfectly outlined in the pale, ghostly moonlight. As the sun sets, the colour bleeds from the sand until the dunes are ghostly white. Perhaps eyes painted without black pupils seem ghostly but the painterly dabs of umber tones definitely bring this woman back to earth. Rendered in oil on top of this ground are ghostly diagrams of machine parts taken from technical manuals. While my friends were frightening themselves in the ghostly changing rooms, I found a stockpile of short, square roofing slates. The ad was never put on TV because the unexplained ghostly phenomenon frightened the production team out of their wits. It seemed that his death stood at the impasse of our days, unfittingly harbored in his ghostly life. The embers from the dying bonfires still burned, casting ghostly shadows over the ground. The Flea rattles its ghostly chains in glee at a visitor from San Marino. In the tracking shot, the viewer becomes a ghostly guest moving parasitically along with the all-knowing camera as the space of the filmic world is mapped. Outside, through the open door, ghostly fleets of bicycles glided past. Show More Sentences See now, rounding the headland, a forlorn hopeless bird, trembling black wings fingering the blowy air, dainty and ghostly, careless of the scattering salt. She was filled with a strange mixture of awe and fear at seeing Erik's skill with the sword, almost that he wasn't a man at all, but a ghostly night wraith. They splashed noisily into the water and we clambered down the pier steps, watching the ghostly glows from their torches disappear into the inky blackness. To explain this ghostly occurrence, we get a dollop of gossip concerning the recent death of a hated bishop. For those who know her primarily as the earnest TV-drama doctor, her uninhibited sexiness when in the throes of ghostly passion comes as quite a surprise. Over the course of the next week the images of these planes hitting the Towers would be replayed so often that they are now ghostly visions forever imprinted on my mind. He grew terribly bright, as if ghostly images of himself had focused on him, and a crackling nimbus of pure force that glowed a deep gold-crimson surrounded him. She was curled up in a cozy little ball with her arms around her knees, nightshirt trailing beneath her like a ghostly shroud, not quite touching the floor. Neutrinos are ghostly particles that can travel through a light year of lead and they have no problem escaping directly from the core of a supernova. Juan has seen a ghostly figure walking and next morning he is told it must be the Black Friar who haunts the house. At this point, you have come to believe that you have a haunted house with bumps, rappings, ghostly footsteps and even apparitions that roam the hallways. I had that experience in the early 80s, when I spent five days racing around a maze eating spherical doughnuts, and waiting for my ghostly pursuers to turn blue. The ghostly blue light of a television flickered behind the curtains. This ghostly apparition is actually a transfiguration of your loved one. A large colour photograph from his shack dweller series has been bleached of its content, the sitter a vague outline, a ghostly presence leached from the scene. One month after the operation, Holm arrived in a ghostly Stanleyville posing as a State Department representative. Meanwhile, Only Lovers Left Alive uses the city as a character as undead and ghostly as its human leads. Square paintings divided into apparently geometric blocks, the stripped areas retaining the ghostly residue of the oils where they have bitten into the canvas. You start in the catacombs but beware ghostly ghouls at every turn! Robert hardly noticed as the ghostly voice rasped from his speaker, making his knees knock together like a pair of bongo drums being played by a swarthy, godless native. Show More Sentences The Dakota, a co-op residence on the Upper West Side, is historically known for its ghostly figures. As I stripped off my clothes and dashed into the sweat lodge on the first truly freezing night of the season, the near-full moon was an eerie, ghostly shadow. Ahead appears the ghostly silhouette of the South Shetland Islands, the first land we have seen in days. Nothing, but his memory deteriorated and he was assaulted by ghostly legions of deja vus and often woke not knowing where he was. And with his ghostly honking wailing he heads out the jarrahwood door. But it doesn't end there. Shakespeare's reference to rattling chains also fits a very common ghostly motif. Ghostly cattle or dogs were common, but there are few contemporary examples of a ghostly stag. Elgar's Rondo, a 1993 stage play by David Pownall depicts the dead Jaeger offering ghostly advice on Elgar's musical development. In 2000, Salmond had a small role in a Pakistani soap opera, The Castle, as a ghostly spirit. As there have been many stories of the ghostly reappearance of these statues, alleged sightings may be due to the confusion created thereby. In later folklore, Odin appears as a leader of the Wild Hunt, a ghostly procession of the dead through the winter sky. Once the drug wears off the victim is safe and beyond the headless horseman's ghostly reach. Black Shuck or Old Shuck is the name given to a ghostly black dog said to roam the Norfolk, Essex, and Suffolk coastline of England. Their theories emphasize the role of the parietal lobe and mirror neurons in triggering such ghostly hallucinations. He came back from death, not as a spooky, Star Warsy, flickering, ghostly image but in real flesh and blood. Matsumura felt almost sure that his ghostly visitant had been none other than the Soul of the Mirror. A small-sized book, with a clearly printed assembly of mainly traditional tales and verse for the very young on ghostly or witchish themes. It's more ghostly in this case than that final minute of the Agon pas de deux. Almost no cliche has been left unturned here and, even allowing for the intended demographic, these Adventures are more generic than ghostly. Their unique personalities and ghostly reclusiveness are just some of the traits that make them so fascinating. Show More Sentences Two trumpeter swans floated on the steaming river, snowflakes swirling around their ghostly white forms. The ghostly realm of string theory, fermions, neutrinos and quarks was not even in the scope of theory. A storage building became a ghostly concrete frame lit bright orange. Taken by a member of a cult urban exploration group, the photographs show the ghostly interiors of buildings and structures. The footnotes ensure that the lines become more allusive and more polysemantic, vacillating between transubstantiation and ghostly intimations. Maudlin country treats wrapped in spooky woodwind, ghostly mouth harp and wheezing harmonium? Hackberry bark will not stop you in your tracks as does the dramatic, shiny red, peeling bark of paperbark maple or the ghostly white bark of lacebark pine. Join The Man in Black, Vincent, Blake Barrington, Herbert Mortimer or Jocasta Spell, for an entertaining walk around the historic streets of Stratford to hear ghostly stories. With a darkly dreamy atmosphere, it relishes its lush spookiness and nasty bloodletting, and is a ghostly treat for those who like old-fashioned chills 'n' thrills. Even if there wasn't a single ghostly presence in this film, the green and black paisley wallpaper would have brought chills to the steeliest moviegoer. The wheat, tawny with ripeness, had been cut and stood in tented stooks about the fields, while a few ghostly poppies lingered at the edge of the path. Features that have been attributed to hellhounds include mangled black fur, glowing red eyes, super strength or speed, ghostly or phantom characteristics, and a foul odor. This is especially the case in late summer when the sea is aflame with mareel and the boats come and go with illumined wakes while the ghostly fire drips from the oar-blades. To the soul this ghostly bread is the learning and the teaching and the understanding in the commandments of God, wherethrough the soul is kenned and lives. The attic is haunted by a ghostly apparition of a deceased young girl. She scrounges desolately in the woods for any food she can find, and it isn't until she takes in a ghostly white greyhound that her heart starts to open up again to others. Examples from Classical Literature I tried to follow my ghostly father's direction, but how hard it was to do so! There could be no doubt now of the ghostly smile that played upon his face. To look back at all is to meet the apparitional and to find in its ghostly face the silent stare of an appeal. His fingers crooked, his body in a bow, his wizen, cruel face pallid in the ghostly light. Finally, later popular belief often placed Woden at the head of the Wild Hunt or ghostly army. This rock in the inner crater was gray, pale and ghostly in the earthlight. Hewson might not have been in what he thought any stressful need of ghostly comfort or reassurance in matters of faith. The birds, silent all in the brooding of night, rise ghostly to right and left. It was a blowy October night and we talked in firelight, as befitted the ghostly circumstances. All power being given to the awful enemy, he is beautiful where he pleases, in order to point and envenom his ghostly ugliness. By midnight she had just finished stirring the fire-tongs through the ghostly, lacelike ashes of her wedding gown. If mortal, I must kill it, if ghostly, the noise of my rifle might dematerialize it. But the p. 340circumstance was not unnoticed by my lynx-eyed, ghostly comforter. Like some ghostly bride he stumbled up through the lurid night, dragging the unwieldly train behind him. So here he was, and the Flying Dutchman was not ghostly at all, nor did it fly. Behind the valley rampart, he could see the dim, saw-toothed Teton peaks, looking like ghostly shapes in the moonlight. But whether or not that part of the pine forest of classis still witnesses this ghostly hunt, we have no means of knowing. The curtains were undrawn, and without the trees stood ghostly and bare against the pale grey sky. Sylvia, 43, has been a clairvoyant since 1980 and had her first ghostly encounter at the age of seven. The ghostly planetary nebulas were captured in infrared light by the Spitzer Space Telescope. Show More Sentences The lone wolf followed, religiously, the ghostly directions. When he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same. After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for a bad man to have. Macey, in deep disgust at the farrier's crass incompetence to apprehend the conditions of ghostly phenomena. Even the night-owl hooted it from the boughs of the ghostly old sycamore. Cruncher stood at his side, and touched him on the shoulder like a ghostly bailiff. There they are shadowed by the ghostly forms of menacing, bodiless shapes! Carmarthenshire abounds in tales of ghosts and ghostly happenings. It was a ghostly reddish thing which filled half the cosmos. The sky had still the pallor of dawn, and there was a ghostly silence on the lagoon. The presence of the tall ghostly figure, moving slowly through the halls, he took as a reproach to himself. In the distance they could see the others following ghostly lamps. For some remarkable reason, ghostly legends were uncommonly rife, about this time, among the servants on Legree's place. Certainly, it is eery enough to be haunted by many a ghostly legend. With the Freudian literalness that fuels counterintuitive readings, Rickels takes SPECTRE'S acronym at its ghostly word. I leaned over and watched the play of his feet, growing dim and dimmer, as they stirred the wan phosphorescence into ghostly fires. This gave them the seeming of ghostly masques, undertakers in a spectral world at the funeral of some ghost. Thrice he breaks water, a white and ghostly apparition from the deep. The whole place was ghostly, full of shadows, shivery with possibilities. Then, from far away, there came the ghostly music of the sistra. Show More Sentences Poking my head out while on all fours, I came nose-to-nose with a 150-pound mountain goat, ghostly white in the starlight. No ghostly worn-out figure should confront Tom Willard, but something quite unexpected and startling. He recollected the place where Brom Bones' ghostly competitor had disappeard. An impenetrable obscurity pressed down upon the ghostly glimmers of the sea. And Porter was still working away, looking ghostly in the penumbra. Hepzibah involuntarily thought of the ghostly harmonies, prelusive of death in the family, which were attributed to the legendary Alice. Its light struck a ghostly white beam across my cabin, and made an ominous shape on the planking by my bunk. Once the light was eclipsed, and the ghostly kitchen doorway became absolutely dark. Taking inspiration from Edvard Munch's iconic artwork, this hollow-eyed, ghostly face expresses moments of extreme fear, madness, or both. The figures, receding infinitely, floating indeterminately and bleached white, are ghostly. Out of the midst of them, the ghostly face would rise, and he would accost it again. With his own ghostly hand, the obscurely seen, but majestic, figure had imparted to me the scarlet symbol and the little roll of explanatory manuscript. Glancing narrowly into the more distant darkness, he caught occasional glimpses of visages that loomed pallid and ghostly, lit with a phosphorescent glow. Nicodemus was given this lonely and ghostly den as a bedchamber. The Flying Dutchman, with a crew of ghostly clients imploring all whom they may encounter to peruse their papers, has drifted, for the time being, heaven knows where. But a minute's reflection convinced me it was not my ghostly Catherine. All the ghostly goings-on and ghoulishness helped create a supremely sinister and super natural atmosphere, and made you feel just about anything could happen. A return to clay and plaster followed, and ghostly casts of her acquaintances haunted corners of the house, or tumbled off closet shelves onto people's heads. Forced into a snow drift by another car when they turn off the highway down a lonely road, they face a freezing night together with ghostly overtones. Find more words! 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