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.

Further off, reclining on its lofty ledge, the livid Ghoul-Shape showeda splash of sinister color, among the dark mountains.

She is attended by a gigantic ghoul, or apparition."

In a short space of time the enchantress appeared, most beautiful in feature and elegant in attire, and approaching our hero with a sad but fascinating expression of countenance, said to him (the ghoul, her pretended paramour, being at a little distance): "I am a poor unhappy thing, The daughter of a distant king.

"Now," said he to Kurugsar, "thou hast seen that with the favor of Heaven, both enchantress and ghoul are exterminated, as well as the wolves, the lions, and the dragon."

"I don't know that I want to claim spiritual kinship with a ghoul," said I; "especially such a very sharp-tempered ghoul.

I oughtn't to have called her a ghoul; she is just the sweetest, most affectionate, most unselfish little angelic human hedgehog that you could find if you travelled the wide world through.

[204] The Asuang is the ghoul of the Arabian Nights' tales.

"You ghoul!" said the invalid, glaring at him.

What! be had given himself up to a despicable old woman, he had slaked the thirst of that ghoul with his generous blood, he had abandoned to that hell-hag the promises of his young body and his virgin soul, while a young girl whose like he had never seen but in fairy tales and dreams, came to him and seemed to say to him: "You may love me.

Grasping his ponderous tools, he flits by like a phantom; even in the momentary glance, we can perceive how livid his sunless labor has left him; he is blanched as a ghoul, and moves as noiselessly, with feather-light step.

I will not name the sum which he offered, the ghoul, the vampire, the anthropophagous jackal, the sneaking would-be incendiary of my little Alexandrian, the circumcised Goth!

don't dig into any graves!" "'E's a proper ghoul, 'e is," Lying Bill said sarcastically.

Centuries ago one of her ancestors must have been a ghoul or vampire.

And we gave; we poured forth our wealth like water (I beg her pardon, like H{2}O), and we could not help thinking there was something weird and uncanny in the ghoul-like facility with which she absorbed it.

Thy mate, the Ghoul, Beats, bat-like, at thy golden gate!

But that Heathcliff is wholly inhuman"a ghoul, an afreet"I cannot really see.

So that, key in hand, for "that ghoul Heathcliff!"

we must read "that ghoul Héger".

Just now Vestrydom's victims are a-howl With rage at skinning; but their indignation Will fade, and they will feed the Official Ghoul Until the next Quinquennial Valuation.

[Footnote 10: An evil spirit, the ghoul of the "Arabian Nights," the readers of which will remember the story of Amina, who goes out at night to feast on dead bodies.]

B323460. Robert Bloch (A); 25May64; R338613. The grinning ghoul.

BABCOCK, DWIGHT V. The gorgeous ghoul.

BABCOCK, DWIGHT V. The gorgeous ghoul.

I made him sit down, sent for some refreshment which he devoured like a ghoul, and set to work to unravel his story.

Cass saw the woman who had left him a moment before on her knees on the grass, with long thin fingers digging like a ghoul in the earth.