The new boy had certainly undertaken to play the part of the ghost, and there was no excuse for his backing out of it at the last moment.

"Oh, Father Richmond must have seen a ghost.

" "Hey?" "Tellin" you a ghost story.

The Ghost of a poor Lover, dwindled into a Heyho.

Is it youor your Ghost? Doct.

In Sir William Barclay's The Lost Lady (folio 1639), a good, if intricate, tragi-comedy, which was received with applause after the Restoration [Pepys saw it 19 January, 1661, and again, rather more than a week later, on the 28th of the same month], and not forgotten by Buckingham when he penned The Rehearsal, Milesia (supposed dead), the wife of Lysicles, appears to her husband as a ghost Act v, sc.

He turned away from me with a pettish exclamation,"As if you didn't know better than that!" "Do you want to tell me it is a ghost?"

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.

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.

My blood got a sort of chill in my veins at the idea that Roland should be a ghost-seer; for that generally means a hysterical temperament and weak health, and all that men most hate and fear for their children.

But that I should take up his ghost and right its wrongs, and save it from its trouble, was such a mission as was enough to confuse any man.

I was not worthy of it; and then I recollected that I had to act the part of a father to Roland's ghost,which made me almost laugh, though I might just as well have cried.

Wha wad set themsels up for a laughin'-stock to a' the country-side, making a wark about a ghost?

If I had been warned I might have taken precautions, or left the place, or sent Roland away, a hundred things which now I could not do; and here I was with my boy in a brain-fever, and his life, the most precious life on earth, hanging in the balance, dependent on whether or not I could get to the reason of a commonplace ghost-story!

And some think it grand to have a ghost so long as they're no in the way of coming across it.

If we had heard of it to start with, it is possible that all the family would have considered the possession of a ghost a distinct advantage.

I should have smiled, of course, at the idea of the ghost at all, but then to feel that it was mine would have pleased my vanity.

Upon this he laughed aloud, then said, "That's not such a bad idea; but it would ruin me forever if it were known that John Simson was ghost-hunting.

It was no ghost to me.

It was no "ghost," as I fear we all vulgarly considered it, to him,but a poor creature whom he knew under these conditions, just as he had known him in the flesh, having no doubt of his identity.

The sinews were forthcoming very quick my dear, and after that the ghost walked quite regular.

The speech of the ghost written on the paper lantern formed part of the humour of the burlesque.

"'Ave you seen the ghost agin?"

Next time you see a ghost, knock it down fust and go and cuddle the police arterwa

But if an inscrutable Providence had omitted to make any Smith Westcotts, Dave Sawney wouldn't have stood the ghost of a chance with Katy.