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Sentences starting with ghost

Ghost or no ghost--" "Come, come, I want to know about the tailor, not of ghosts," impatiently interrupted the Seigneur. [11]

Sentences ending with ghost

If you do, you will only be a troublesome ghost. [11]
The sight seemed to fill Nebenchari with terror; he started as if the gaunt old man had been a ghost. [10]
She had tried to be true to it, that dead, lost thing, of which this man who came once a year to see her, and now, lying with his life at stake in the hospital, was the repellent ghost. [11]
You look as though you had seen a ghost. [9]
The man is this moment delivering up the ghost. [5]
Then where was the use in harrying a ghost? [5]
I looked out of that on four long changing seasons, said the ghost. [6]
I think it is the way a man would look that was haunted; you know what I mean,--followed by a spirit or ghost. [6]
He glided about in a noiseless way, and looked like a ghost. [5]
Halting short in his speech he turned pale and trembled, staring as at a ghost. [11]

Short sentences using ghost

The little ghost said, Never! [6]
Good by, little ghost. [6]
Just like a ghost. [11]
Was the ghost barefooted? [5]
Have you seen a ghost? [5]
Ghost? [5]

Sentences containing ghost two or more times

No fear of Charley's ghost coming inside the church--it wouldn't be that kind of a ghost. [11]

More example sentences with the word ghost in them

By the Ghost, you are worth seven of that Roger Spratt whom you sent to hell in his boots. [9]
I do wonder what frightful ghost that is, gleaming on the red tempest? [5]
He thought it was Tom's ghost, you see. [5]
One night I was on the point of relating some dismal ghost story, just before bed-time. [14]
Soon, however, a warning glance from his wife brought him back and saved Lady Dargan from collapse; for it seemed impossible to talk alone to this ghost of her past. [11]
My ghost shall visit you in the smiles of Paradise, and tell your high fame to the minds of that region, which is far more preferable than this lonely cell. [5]
It is real, true love, pleasing to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, aye and to the merciful Virgin and all the saints who protect you, which has bound you and Herdegen together from your infancy. [10]
His effort is to make the impression that his enemies first made the charge of toryism and he drove them from that, then Sampson's ghost, he drove them from that, then finally the assignment charge was manufactured just before election. [7]
Give them money to fight with; and the ghost of an excuse, and they: would manage to postpone anything in this world, unless it might be the millennium or something like that. [5]
And yet, if this was his last journey, it seemed not an inappropriate ending for the old woodsman to lie down and give up the ghost in the midst of the untamed forest and the solemn silences he felt most at home in. [4]
Over him hovered the ghost of Washington in warning attitude, and in the background a troop of shadowy soldiers in Continental uniform were limping with shoeless, bandaged feet through a driving snow-storm. [5]
This surely was the ghost of Mahommed Selim-- this gaunt, stooping figure covered with dust. [11]
He had seen the ghost of his brother- in-law-Charley Steele. [11]
For Thou art the defense, the succor, and the victory of them that put their trust in Thee, and to Thee be all glory, to Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, now and forever, world without end. [2]
The moon at that moment broke through the clouds, and he saw the Semaphore like a ghost pointing towards Pascal River. [11]
It was absurd that a man should be in love with a face at a window--a face with the beauty of a ghost rather than of a real live woman. [11]
No more ghost than you are. [5]
Dead people might talk, maybe, but they don't come sliding around in a shroud, when you ain't noticing, and peep over your shoulder all of a sudden and grit their teeth, the way a ghost does. [5]
Spread the long table's full array, There sits a ghost in every chair! [6]
Diodoros, seized with sudden terror of the dark figure, which he believed to be a risen ghost, took to his heels, dragging Melissa with him. [10]
Again: "And he sits there like a ghost all shrivelled up for want of sleep, and his eyes like a lime-kiln burning. [11]
Like a ghost she sped the quick way to Askatoon. [11]
Honora, still shivering, seized a fleecy wrapper (the handiwork of Aunt Mary) and crept, a diminutive ghost, down the creaking stairway to the sitting-room. [9]
The apparition that put me and my little ghost to flight had a dressing-gown on its person and a gun in its hand. [6]
The architect had presented Dion to the youths as the ghost of a dead man, who, as soon as he was asked whence he came or whither he was going, would be compelled to vanish in the form of a fly. [10]
He made himself popular with his violin, "which seemed to have a thousand chords--more symphonious than the Muses of Apollo, and more enchanting than the ghost of the Hills. [5]
The ghost appeared only once, and it went by very dim to the sight and floated noiseless through the air, and then disappeared; and we scarcely trembled, he had taught us so well. [5]
We was thinking of that awful thing laying yonder in the sycamores, and it seemed like being that close to a ghost, and it give me the cold shudders. [5]
The funereal rustling of dresses and the low buzz of conversation began to die swiftly down, and presently not the ghost of a sound was left. [5]
Therefore, no amount of 'dirt, bathing,' etc., etc., howsoever 'unfairly followed' will be likely to 'worm him from his folly'--if being dead and a ghost is 'folly. [5]
Never a ghost of a smile, and never a suspicion of moisture! [5]
O world, vex not this ghost, yea, let it pass, The Spirit of these songs. [11]
But was it not the ghost of a ship? [4]
But it was not she; it was a wicked ghost in her beautiful body--nothing more. [11]
Holy Ghost, "a new born bard of the," 123. [6]
I sauntered,--we, rather, my ghost and I,--until we came to a broken field where there was quarrying and digging going on,--our old base-ball ground, hard by the burial-place. [6]
It was the murderer coming back as a ghost to avenge himself for being hanged. [11]
We talked the murder and the ghost over and over again, and got so creepy and crawly we couldn't get sleepy nohow and noway. [5]
This poor little man's appeal to my humanity against the supposed rapacity of Science, which he feared would have her "specimen," if his ghost should walk restlessly a thousand years, waiting for his bones to be laid in the dust, touched my heart. [6]
They say he looked like a ghost when he went. [11]
He would have known, at the first mouthful, that the air was not eatable, and must have given up the ghost in despair. [12]
I could only just gasp along the way you do in a dream when there's a ghost gaining on you. [5]
Injun Joe's ghost is round about there, certain. [5]
Should his ghost interpose between her and the death now within two-score feet of her? [11]
Here you were, in the dead of night, telling ghost stories, and raking up your sins, with no cause whatever, instead of in your bed. [11]
The schoolmistress said, in a hesitating sort of way, that she knew the feeling well, and didn't like to experience it; it made her think she was a ghost, sometimes. [6]
I've often thought I would like to see a ghost if I--" "Would you? [5]
As for me, I could have been willing to let the matter of the ghost drop; and the others were of a like mind, no doubt, for they talked diligently of the battle and said nothing of that other thing. [5]
It is the Holy Ghost that sends him--there is no doubt of it! [10]
Charley looked through his monocle at the crowd reflectively, his head held a little to one side in a questioning sort of way, on his lips the ghost of a smile--not a reassuring smile. [11]
At a word his chestnut mare got away with telling stride in pursuit of the unknown rider, passing up the Gap of Mandakan like a ghost. [11]
She gazed at her preserver as if she beheld a ghost that had just risen from the earth and what now happened remained imprinted on Miriam's memory as a series of bloody, horrible, disconnected, yet superb visions. [10]
When she turned her head he begged her warmly not to be alarmed far he was no ghost, only a very humble and ordinary mortal, in fact-as she might see--nothing more, alas! [10]
These two antipathies having been disposed of, a new suggestion was started, and was talked over with a curious sort of half belief, very much as ghost stories are told in a circle of moderately instructed and inquiring persons. [6]
Whatever a ghost has, turns to ghost-stuff. [5]
The Petrified Man has sold everybody else, and now the mean fraud has ended by selling its own ghost! [5]
Since then Ian had never spoken a word to her, nor she to him; but he had stood there in the shadow at the station like a ghost, reproachful, unresponsive, indifferent. [11]
But the little ghost whispered, "When you leave this place you leave me behind you. [6]
But to-day the ghost ventured to draw nearer to me than is seemly, and I recognise the object. [10]
It was Hattie's ghost over again, merely turned around. [5]
I am the ghost of the Cardiff Giant. [5]
He played the ghost in "Hamlet," and Adam in "As You Like It. [4]
The ladies and gentlemen were generally well pleased with the Major; as he delighted all with his violin, which seemed to have a thousand chords --more symphonious than the Muses of Apollo and more enchanting than the ghost of the Hills. [5]
She gave a gasp, and stood transfixed, as though she had seen a ghost, and then in an instant she was in my arms, sobs shaking her. [11]
If it proceeded from the ghost of the dead gladiator he must be quite close to him. [10]
And we seen four men run, then this one come walking out and we took it for a ghost. [5]
Any ghost that ever flits by night across the moonlight square is at once hailed by me as a man and a brother. [6]
And yet that evening, as I hesitated in the hall, I somehow was unable to grasp that it was real and permanent, the very solidity of the walls and doors paradoxically suggested transientness, the butler a flitting ghost. [9]
From the heavy door of the house, which stood half open, a white-robed figure emerged with the solemn, noiseless footfall of a ghost, and advanced across the courtyard towards him. [10]
To her eyes, dimmed with much seeing, blurred by a garish kaleidoscope of fashionable life, there had come a look which was like the ghost of a look she had, how many decades ago. [11]
Honora, as one detached, as a ghost in the corner, saw herself in the picture with startling clearness. [9]
It was quite dark, and as they passed up Market Hill--called Ghost Lane because of the Good Little People who made it their highway--Dormy caught hold of Ranulph's coat and trotted along beside him. [11]
She saw him cross the bridge like a ghost through the white mist rising from the canal. [9]
I used to crack nuts on that, whispered the small ghost. [6]
Perhaps, if he could only get to the other shore, he might see a ghost! [10]
She was deceived completely, and, without further speech, she stepped to the door like a ghost and was gone. [11]
Jeremy Bentham's logic, by which he proved that he couldn't possibly see a ghost is all very well-in the day-time. [6]
So he started; but I kept a little behind, because I didn't know but it might be a ghost, after all. [5]
The golden curls blew across Jane's lips; the little hands feebly clasped her arm; a ghost of a troubled, trustful smile hovered round the sweet lips. [13]
As he passed beyond the village his excited imagination heard Charley Steele's ghost calling after him. [11]
There the crowd between it, the Hospital of the Holy Ghost, and the church belonging to it seemed absolutely impenetrable. [10]
Tom said we better jump out and tag along after them, because they was going our way and it wouldn't be comfortable to run across the ghost all by ourselves. [5]
Poor Conrad was becoming a very ghost through dread and dire distress. [5]
For it would be remembered that Simon had said: "Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay hands, he may receive the Holy Ghost. [9]
That woman may be a wife, or it may be a loving and living ghost of a wife like me. [11]
When my host at the lunch introduced a stately-looking gentleman as Sir Kenelm Digby, it gave me a start, as if a ghost had stood before me. [6]
Gawaine--Gawaine's head is at Dover Castle, he fell in the fight there--Gawaine appeared to Arthur in a dream, at least his ghost did, and warned him to refrain from conflict for a month, let the delay cost what it might. [5]
Why, you look as if I were your grandmother's ghost. [9]
She turned pale as a ghost, and her eyes took the colour that her cheeks lost. [11]
Do you think any one knows really anything more about the operation in the world of electricity than he does about the operation of the Holy Ghost? [4]
It was small and faint and delicate, and looked like the ghost of a bunch of white smoke left floating in the sky by an exploded bombshell. [5]
He told Harry all that was necessary of the conversation--she was bent on going her own way, he had not the ghost of a chance--he was a fool, she had said, for thinking he had. [5]
Injun Joe's ghost ain't a going to come around where there's a cross! [5]
Honest injun, you ain't a ghost? [5]
Her eyes were aflame with excitement, but she grew thinner, until at last she was like a ghost haunting familiar scenes. [11]
It was like a troubled ghost, flitting along the boundaries of sight and sense, and leaving a chill and a horrified wonder behind. [11]
Frank Erne was a ghost of his old self, through with workin', through with preachin', almost through with livin', an' Milly was gone!...It was a long time before I got the story. [13]
He looks like a ghost now, but it's no use saying or doing anything. [11]
She stole like a ghost from her chamber. [6]
You must have a barber," added he; "you are a ghost like this. [11]

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