30 Metaphors for ghosts

When you have lived awhile in Gray's Inn, you grow to forget that Bacon's ghost is your fellow-tenant; and it is the kind-hearted provincial who from time to time lays those flowers on Goldsmith's tomb.

And what ghosts were Nina and Markovitch!

This love is either in the Trinity itself (for the Holy Ghost is the love of the Father and the Son, &c. John iii. 35, and v. 20, and xiv. 31), or towards us his creatures, as in making the world.

I say poetic creation, for, to my mind, the ghosts she saw were projections of herself into objective reality.

There was still a great deal of the baby in Henry, and ghosts and giants and scaly-headed monsters were not incredibilities to his young imagination.

The beings which never were human, never died, are Vui, the ghosts are Tamate.

The Jamison ghost Shall be our host; We trust we'll meet a kindly fate!"

[Footnote 1: "Admiral Hosier's Ghost" is the title of a ballad by Glover on the death of Admiral Hosier, a distinguished admiral, who had been sent with a squadron to blockade the Spanish treasure-ships in Porto Bello, but was prohibited from attacking them in the harbour.

Ghost is the narrower term.

It is bad enough to find your child's mind possessed with the conviction that he has seen, or heard, a ghost; but that he should require you to go instantly and help that ghost was the most bewildering experience that had ever come my way.

The common ghost is a bag of nunuai, as living man, in the opinion of some philosophers, is a bag of 'sensations.'

The supposed Holy Ghost, Echuac, properly Ah-Kiuic, Master of the Market, was the god of the merchants and the cacao plantations.

The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature.

The police came without any coaxing, when they knew the 'ghosts' were normal flesh and blood.

Tostig was an ill man in life, but Tostig's ghost should be a thing to fright the boldestprithee, come away.

" "Well," said Ralph, "no doubt the ghosts have been a great protection to our family treasures.

It may be observed that Lavaterus (circ. 1580) already put forth a form of the hypothesis of telepathy (that 'ghosts' are hallucinations produced by the direct action of one mind, or brain, upon another), while Thyraeus doubted whether the noises heard in 'haunted houses' were not mere hallucinations of the sense of hearing.

" "Ghosts be dd!"

They affirmed that they saw the ghosts of several departed persons, who, at their appearing, did instigate them to discover such as (they said) were instruments to hasten their death, threatening sorely to afflict them if they did not make it known to the magistrates.

Did Raffaelle thus, whose honour'd ghost Is now Elysium's fairest boast?

Gods are Kalou vu; deified ghosts are Kalou yalo.

The ghost of a spree is a most alluring fellow; it is the dust on the bottle that flavors the wine; a musty bin is the soul's delight; we drink the vintage and not the wine.

A ghost is the phantasm of a dead man.

Ghosts "Sho dar is ghosts.

The ghost in Hamlet is merely an embodied suspicion.

30 Metaphors for  ghosts