I looked from side to side, and found that I could still see each piece of furniture; but in a strangely unreal way, more as though the ghost of each table and chair had taken the place of the solid article.

PUNCHINELLO begs to assure the Sun that he doesn't keep a ghost; though, at the same time, the mistake was a natural one enough to emanate from Mr. C. A. (D. B.) DANA, who keeps a REAL ghost in his closet.

The picture of Mrs. Maria Gilligan assaulting a ghost with a rolling pin was indeed a funny one.

Like the Ghost at BOOTH'S, he was a terror to the peaceful Hamlet.

"Knowing what you know by experience, suppose you hint to any one inclined to spectre-shooting, that he runs the risk of killing a live man, and having two ghosts on his hands,the ghost of the poor devil shot, and one of himself hanged for murder.

Target companies sprang from the recesses of the East Side, like ghosts from the rocks in Der Freischütz; drums and fifes resounded; cannons boomed; fireworks burst into flame.

"My spirits is equal to any number of ghosts to-night, sir, if we meet 'em.

Oh, do not say so; For though the World had nought I held more dear, I would not see her Ghost for all the World.

Enter Bredwel stalking on as a Ghost by them.

Horace Walpole (Letters, vii. 292) wrote to Mason on Dec. 11 of that year:'If you can send us any stories of ghosts out of the North, they will be very welcome.

Another assumption underlying the animistic hypothesis, and also borrowed from Christian teaching, is that the savage regards the soul or ghost as the liberated and consummated man, and that therefore he will place God rather in the category of disembodied than of embodied men.

" "Fate," she said, "is the ghost around the corner.

Yes,even as Sandy said, big wrists were chained together; he was more like a ghost than a man; his face was pale and hopeless, and woful beyond her understanding was the majesty of his mien.

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

Mumno words on't, unless you'll have the Ghost about your Ears; part with your Wife, I say, or else the Devil will part ye.

On reaching the gate adjoining the Fontaine Médicis the boy always turned round for a look at the statues of women he could discern standing like white ghosts along the terrace.

They crowd in on me like the ghosts into the tent of King Richard.

The fog crawled like a ghost over flat and cliff and field.

So when wonderful phenomena in the nervous system are observed,when tables are smashed by invisible hands,when people see ghosts through stone walls, and know what is passing in the heart of Africa,how easily you unlock your wardrobe of terms and clap on the back of every eccentric fact your ready-made phrase-coat,Animal Magnetism, Biology, Odic Force, Optical Illusion, Second Sight, Spirits, and what not!

The captain did not reappear outside of the court, until the chaplain, who had made the best of his way towards the rocks, was actually stalking like a ghost among ruins, through the deserted shantees of the late encampment.

I grant Mr. HACKETT freely his effects of eeriness and his sound judgment in manipulating his ghost without materialising him; and congratulate him particularly on the part of the vague American lady, most capably performed by Miss MARION LORNE.

Why do fond men term it impiety To send a wearisome, sad, grudging ghost Unto his home, his long-long, lasting home?

It was now the appearance of a ghost before me.

Nothing more was heard from the ghost after that.

They seemed to belong to another age, an older age, an age when things spiritual were different from this of ours, less certain; an age when omens and witches were credible, and ghosts beyond denying.