177 adjectives to describe ghosts

On and on he went, over the thick bed of dark decaying leaves, which made no rustling sound, looking like a little white ghost of a boy in that great gloomy wood.

And now the steamer ran due south, across the vast basin which is ringed round by Antigua, Montserrat, and Guadaloupe, with St. Kitts and Nevis showing like tall gray ghosts to the north-west.

Yester-night I say the pale ghost of my sire with white And trembling lips ...

This Being could not be evolved out of the ordinary ghost of a second-sighted man, for I do not find that ancestral ghosts are worshipped, nor is there a trace of early missionary influence, while Mr. Man consulted elderly and, in native religion, well-instructed Andamanese for his facts.

What we have thought and felt before was all unreality, mere ghosts; day has dawned and they have fled.

It will be a great triumph for me to prove to all the school and the village people that there is no restless ghost who wanders around Wildenstein.

Possibly, some carnal minister, some priest of pious aspect and hidden infidelity, had dispelled the consecration of the holy edifice by his pretence of prayer, and thus made it the resort of unhappy ghosts and sorcerers and devils.

It was, perhaps, a natural thought that the approach of winter should drive the poor shivering hungry ghosts from the bare fields and the leafless woodlands to the shelter of the cottage with its familiar fireside.

And now the steamer ran due south, across the vast basin which is ringed round by Antigua, Montserrat, and Guadaloupe, with St. Kitts and Nevis showing like tall gray ghosts to the north-west.

Trigger Berg and the cockeyed ghost.

The goal of the path of covetousness may be discerned in the face of any old money-worshipper; keeping guard over his piles of wealth, like a surly watch-dog; or, if perchance he has failed, haunting the places where fortune has deceived him, like an unquiet ghost.

And Love, so gayly taunted, Who died, no welcome granted, Comes to me now, a pallid ghost, By whom my life is haunted. With bonds I may not sever, He binds my heart forever, And leads me where we murdered him, The Hill beside the River. CAMP SHAW, FLORIDA, February, 1864.

I said, for I knew him for one of the most respectable young ghosts in the village.

Thin ghosts of Figurantes (never plump on earth) circle thee in endlessly, and still their song is Fye on sinful Phantasy.

Kurt exclaimed, staring at Loneli as if she were a curious ghost herself.

SEE Three live ghosts.

" "My angry ghost arising from the deep, Shall haunt thee waking, and disturb thy sleep; At least my shade thy punishment shall know, And Fame shall spread the pleasing news below.

The memory of the blood which was shed in 1798 rose up like a bloody ghost against them to-day.

"I don't mind meeting an honest-to-goodness ghost, but I'll be hanged if I'll let him laugh at me!"

Whether a set of not particularly scrupulous savages will readily evolve a moral unbribable Creator, when they have a serviceable family ghost-god eager to oblige, is a question as easily resolved.

Nor is it long before the form of an earthly polity is transferred to that unearthly city of the dead, till for one reason or another some jealous ghost gains a monarchic supremacy over his brethren, and thus polytheism gives place to monotheism.

See, my loved Britons, see your Shakspeare rise, An awful ghost, confess'd, to human eyes!

Would you mind standing out a little from the shadow?" Phebe moved a step forward into the stream of light that shot across the piazza from the open window, and stood so, looking up at him out of her soft white muslin draperies and white ribbons, not a ray of color about her anywhere, like a very material and sweet little ghost.

O souls of hanged menO spirits of the dead, come about me, ye ghosts of murdered youth, come and behold the gibbet burn whereon ye died.

Gods are Kalou vu; deified ghosts are Kalou yalo.

177 adjectives to describe  ghosts