"Ghostly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a fire laid in the enormous fireplace, and in a few minutes we were steaming before a cheerful blaze. Within the radius of its light and heat, we were comfortable again. But the brightness merely emphasized the gloom of the ghostly corners. We talked in subdued tones, and I smoked, a box of Russian cigarettes which I found in a table drawer. We had decided to stay all night, there being nothing else to do. I suggested a game of ...
— The Man in Lower Ten • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... the moody Elfin King, Who wonned within the hill, Like wind in the porch of a ruined church, His voice was ghostly ...
— Lady of the Lake • Sir Walter Scott
... ghostly noises began to come from that room and mysterious whisperings fell out of the window and bumped ...
— You Should Worry Says John Henry • George V. Hobart
... of his associates. Then climbing softly in at the window, he lay down in the young fellow's bed. After waiting a little time, he fell to arousing the Archimandrite. His masters who were listening under the window, hearing him try to awake the ghostly man, begged ...
— The Story of Tim • Anonymous
... topographical engineer, has just been promenading the line of tents in his nightshirt, with a club, in search of some scoundrel, supposed to be the Adjutant, who has stuffed his bed with stove-wood and stones. Wilson, on seeing the ghostly apparition approach, ...
— The Citizen-Soldier - or, Memoirs of a Volunteer • John Beatty
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