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Sentences starting with ghosts

Ghosts were there, ghosts which he could but dimly feel and see, and more than once, in the long evenings, he had taken to the streets to avoid them. [9]

Sentences ending with ghosts

We always began to suspect ghosts. [5]
And he said they were pleasant and cheerful, not gloomy and melancholy, like ghosts. [5]
Two bats, which had come from the mines and circled round the fire darted past her like ghosts. [10]
Then there were days when there was no sleep--no rest--we were like ghosts. [11]
Ten o'clock came, and the noise of vehicles ceased, scattered lights began to wink out, all straggling foot-passengers disappeared, the village betook itself to its slumbers and left the small watcher alone with the silence and the ghosts. [5]
Valmond was pale, and his eyes burned like restless ghosts. [11]
The place seemed alive with ghosts. [5]
The worst of a modern stylish mansion is, that it has no place for ghosts. [6]

Short sentences using ghosts

Resurrections give ghosts only. [11]

More example sentences with the word ghosts in them

In my opinion, whoever hove those things in here caught a sight of us and took us for ghosts or devils or something. [5]
But those sounds were so real and so human and so moving that the idea of ghosts passed straight out of our minds, and Sir Jean de Metz spoke out and said: "Come! [5]
Indeed, all ghosts were laid, nor was there about her the slightest evidence of mourning or regret. [9]
I know the ways of ghosts, and so do you. [5]
The word "escaped" was sufficient to satisfy the old woman; for her idea of ghosts was that they put others to flight, but did not fly themselves. [10]
Then the old treasurer said: "Passing the forts in that trying way required the same sort of nerve that a person must have when ghosts are about him in the dark, I should think. [5]
Does it please their thin ghosts thus to be dragged to the light of day? [6]
Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note. [5]
The tan and the green baize are covered with ghosts that want to help you, if you'll let them. [11]
The thud of the engines falls on a padded atmosphere, and the lascars move like ghosts along the decks. [11]
Becuz you know that they don't anybody but ghosts use 'em. [5]
How many ghosts that "thick men's blood with cold" prove to be shirts hung out to dry! [6]
We can't ever tell the right time, and besides this kind of thing's too awful, here this time of night with witches and ghosts a-fluttering around so. [5]
But I didn't take no interest in the place, because there could be ghosts there, of course; not fresh ones, but I don't like no kind. [5]
And often a story of pure love, but more frequently of ghosts or other eerie phenomena taken from a magazine, or an anecdote of a cat or a chicken. [9]
I vaguely remember some of the details of that gathering--dimly I can see a hundred people--no, perhaps fifty--shadowy figures sitting at tables feeding, ghosts now to me, and nameless forevermore. [5]
Catherine said: "Tradition says that these ghosts have never been seen--they have merely been heard. [5]
There were suits of mail standing like ghosts in armour here and there, fantastic carvings brought from monkish cloisters, rusty weapons of various kinds, distorted figures in china and wood and iron and ivory: tapestry and strange furniture that might have been designed in dreams. [12]
The parlors were nearly deserted, and few chairs were occupied on the piazzas, but the ghosts of another generation seemed to linger, especially in the offices and barroom. [4]
I asked the master of the house, who pointed out the curiosities of the place most courteously, about the ghosts who of course were tenants in common with the living proprietors. [6]
If you doubt it, go and see how the departing ghosts upset things before they started. [5]
In these days it seems incredible that people believed in ghosts so short a time ago. [5]
I might be if I was alone, because I do hate ghosts, and I don't deny it. [5]
At wide intervals his straining ear did detect sounds, but they were so remote, and hollow, and mysterious, that they seemed not to be real sounds, but only the moaning and complaining ghosts of departed ones. [5]
The marble pillars gleamed as white as snow, and filmy mists, which were beginning to rise from the damp lawn, floated languidly hither and thither on the soft night breeze, like ghosts veiled in flowing crape. [10]
Yes, and he'll git come up with, one of these days, I says to myself, insulting ghosts that way. [5]
They haunt like ghosts when they are broken, they torture like fire then. [11]
And then these ghosts were invisible, which made the matter the worse, as it seemed to me. [5]
My show of ghosts is over. [6]
Nay, I know from the ghosts themselves that this gives them pleasure; so they must have the organs of sense. [10]
We were sorry for the dogs; and one died, and then another, and there is nothing so dreadful as to hear the dogs howl in the long night--it is like ghosts crying in an empty world. [11]
They'll stand it for a while, maybe, but they won't stand it always, for anybody that knows about ghosts knows how easy they are hurt, and how revengeful they are. [5]
Mournful legends multiply, church-yard ghosts, walking spirits. [4]
He became surrounded by the ghosts of yesterdays; and at length he gave up striving with them, and let them storm upon him, until a line of pain cut deeply across his forehead, and bitterly and unconsciously he cried aloud,--"Hester, ah, Hester! [11]
If I could borrow that eloquence of Jouffroy which made his hearers turn pale, I might bring up before my readers a long array of pallid ghosts, whom these walls knew well in their earthly habiliments. [6]
They couldn't a been worse scared if the place had a been full of ghosts laying for them behind everything and under the beds and shivering through the air. [5]
It might have been a performance of ghosts for all the effect at this distance. [4]
I called him back; I gave him life; but I gave him memory and remorse, and the ghosts that haunt him: the voice in his ear, the touch on his arm, the some one that is 'waiting--waiting--waiting! [11]
But he is at the bottom of the St Lawrence--the courts say so, and the Church say so--and ghosts don't walk here. [11]
I don't allow any ghosts to bite me, and I took up a chair and smashed at it. [5]
She cannot marry another man, for ghosts will not lie for asking, and what is mine may not be another's. [11]
That I recalled, and how Breed had looked out at the sword-play through the cracks of the closed shutters, agonized between fear of ghosts within and the drama without. [9]
Then they talked about how to keep tobacco from getting moldy, and from that they went into ghosts and told about a lot that other folks had seen; but Ed says-- 'Why don't you tell something that you've seen yourselves? [5]

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