There are the ghosts of who we used to be. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A small pale ghost peeked out at her from behind a woman’s skirt, its form so slight that it was hardly more than a wisp of fog. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sky was pale in the southeast, and the air was suffused with a gray mist, through which the gyptians moved like bulky ghosts, loading sledges and harnessing dogs to the traces. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope had not gotten a clear-enough look to see if this ghost was, in fact, wearing a sheet, or some other ghostly garb more suitable to the weather. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He streaked through the dark, thick underbrush of the forest like a bullet, like a ghost. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Daisy’s ghost made me feel super strong inside, knowing wherever I am, she’d be there with me. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

My father was not a ghost; he was God with his back turned, hands clasped behind him and fierce eyes on the clouds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

They moved around her like ghosts, gliding soundlessly through the rooms, almost always bored and empty- handed. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I press through like I am battling a series of strong waves to where the breath is—without wondering how a hallucination/ghost/spirit/lost soul can even have breath. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of the closed-off bedrooms held the ghost of Alvin Caruthers, still wearing his service uniform and drinking to numb the pain of a heart broken by a war fought in trenches. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I read it loud enough to keep her ghosts away. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost closed the drawer with his key and handed over a green folder, his ghost hands shaking slightly. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She could almost hear her father’s angry roar echoing through the main room, the chorus of wailing ghosts on the balconies. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She shivered and looked around to find that more than half of the people milling about were ghosts, the dead crowding in for the evening show the same as the living. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They were gone, without a word, snapped out, made accidental, isolated, like ghosts even from our pity. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

It is a house now of only ghosts. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A ghost hovering over me in the room. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When I greeted him, he jumped up as if he had seen a ghost. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

“I’m glad Mr. Morrison doesn’t believe in ghosts,” I said. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Thomas shuddered, terrified—they all looked like ghosts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Henry’s breath ghosts over Alex’s lips, their noses brushing, and when he finally connects, he’s smiling into it. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Kuei” means “ghost,” but I don’t find any other words that make sense. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

School takes on a nightmarish quality, like a house full of ghosts that won’t quit bothering me. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

He helped her up, and for the first time they looked around at the land where the ghosts were. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s ghost only knows things about her life that I know. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He promised her visiting ghost that he would raise Syaudi and me as his honored children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He glided past them without turning his head, and was followed immediately by another ghost. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As they approached, the ghost smiled at them. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Is that why their ghosts are still here?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The Chinese are always very frightened of the drowned one, whose weeping ghost, wet hair hanging and skin bloated, waits silently by the water to pull down a substitute. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Will had been looking at him, eager to see this old companion of Lyra’s; but now his eyes went right past Lee to look at the ghost beside him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Gram taught me to believe in magic, not ghosts. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

I watched my ghost mama for a while. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

The loose silvery strands writhed around her head like serpentine ghosts, more fearsome than Medusa’s. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The ghost's hollow, haunting voice—a voice not unlike Falconer's—sent a shiver up my spine. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Uncle Louver wanted nothing to do with it, in case the ghost came looking for it, so he buried it.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

It does and it did, and we went in to the house where the ghosts had already retired and we went to bed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see how such music drew the ghosts out of dying people, giving them a ride to the next life. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was beginning to think that it was never the ghosts themselves that were important. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In the middle of the night, the ghost returned. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

But the hurricane warning has emptied people out and ghosts, from when our school used to be a convent, are filling the halls. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Of course, there were ghosts from the past. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

One of Lola’s old ghost stories popped into his head, too. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Pale, like a ghost, his blond hair against the pillow. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Someplace with no ghosts, no memories, and no sins. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’s staring straight at the sky, a ghost of a smile on her lips. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I’m the deadest zombie ghost vampire who ever died. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

When I woke in the middle of the night to find the room full of ghosts, the reassuring sound of her soft breathing sent them away. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The memory fades, and I’m left hanging on to the ghosts of his words. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

How her mother bled for days and Connelly didn’t bother to call the doctor until she looked half a ghost. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

‘Just promise me: no more turning people into ghosts if we can avoid it.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s like being pulled into a whole other world, one with ghosts and angels and monsters, and I lose myself in it. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

As though it might be another, as though a presumptuous neighbor or a young ghost with bad skin might be there instead. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He knew nothing of the boy’s fear of ghosts and other nocturnal terrors. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

There were ghosts with hair rollers in and others making what looked like glowing coffee, and one very animated ghost exercise class. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, around the edges of the pool, the other ghosts became restless. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Every time she closed her eyes, she saw ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was a scene rather than a single ghost. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She couldn’t tell her friends how much she feared ghosts, or why she feared them. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Wish I didn’t still have feelings; it sucks feeling sorry for another ghost. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

From aft, ghost voices spoke as men heaved the log and turned the glass. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t look at her as if she were a ghost or some awful undead zombie. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“See, Matilda? I was right. We have no cause to run out of the city like children scared by a ghost. Lucille will be scolding us by sunrise,” he chuckled. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

What she did mind was the fact that all the extra activity seemed to have pushed the ghosts into hiding, most especially Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Can you cut through?” said John Parry’s ghost. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Over its massive western shoulder flowed the ghost torrent of Alyssa's Tears. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Thank you,” Jinx said, looking up, but like a ghost, she was gone. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

As fleet and bright as a lodestar he wheeled toward Guitar and it did not matter which one of them would give up his ghost in the killing arms of his brother. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

A thin ghost boy of his own age nodded, and Will turned to him. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Then, through the gloom, I saw her—a woman the color of the water, a ghost in the current, floating just above the sword. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

It was only his revenant who remained, the small vengeful ghost who throttled Shae and put a crossbow bolt through the great Lord Tywin’s bowels. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The hobbits had no welcome for that light; unfriendly it seemed, revealing them in their helplessness — little squeaking ghosts that wandered among the ash-heaps of the Dark Lord. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He made the ancient sign of warding off evil - three fingers thrust out from the heart - and the ghost of Beryl Grace disappeared with a soft hiss, like a sigh of relief. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me,” said one ghost girl, “but where’s your dæmons? Excuse me for asking. But...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ghosts retreated with a collective hiss at the sight of my celestial bronze blade. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I bobbed up again, and this time, my ghost eyes were open. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She sees them—two still, white ghosts, hovering near the ceiling. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“There have to be ghosts in a place this old.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He made me a ghost instead of a mouse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Once he spotted a glowing purple ghost—a Lar—glaring at them from the window of an apartment building. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

People gave up the ghost with delicacy and taste inside the hospital. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The ghosts began to take real notice of Ophie after the incident on the trolley. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The track was slick, though—a heavy double downbeat you could feel in your gut and clickity-clack rim shots bouncing back and forth like two stuttering ghosts. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Then you can grow up bothered by “neither ghosts nor deities.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And not the nice kind of ghosts from Harry Potter, either. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There were no other human beings here at all; just us and the ghosts. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

New York was no longer a ghost town, but there were few signs of life. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Better them than the ghost of her own young self making up stories about the past! In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been such a rainy May, and the basement felt appropriately cryptlike: cobwebs around the doorframe ghosting our faces, that smell of dirt and rot and trapped air, and it was dark, totally dark. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

At the ghost room, door open like a mouth, she stopped and, stepping inside, swung light into its corners. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the outheld hand of the colossal seraph, ghosts stood guard with cleavers, and some with meat hooks on chains. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A small, ghost white hand appeared from beneath the comforter. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And you had to eat every single dot, energizer, fruit, and ghost possible along the way, without ever losing a single life. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Did the ghosts of Levantine girls haunt those cursory checkups, suggested by the fragility of my collarbone, or the birdcall of my small, congested lungs? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was saying something about ghosts, old mysteries, Miss Lilian’s role in the children’s disappearance. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“That’s just plain old nature. I mean ghosts and dead children and crazy people—things that give me nightmares. I want to leave, like you.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Whether it’s his ghost, or the product of time travel, no one is quite sure. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

“Will,” said Lyra, “what d’you think the harpies will do when we let the ghosts out?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Once, at a restaurant back in San Francisco, she’d made the mistake of tasting a ghost chili pepper that came with a plate of Indian food. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I see myself and Hamlet on the mist-shrouded battlements, where an unseen ghost witnessed our embracing, then turned Hamlet’s mind from love to vengeance. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ray flopped back down on the couch, his face stricken, like he had seen a ghost. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Harry sat down opposite the ghost in the ruff he’d seen earlier. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And if they used a bit more salt than necessary those first few weeks, much to the chagrin of the neighborhood’s ghosts, the mother did not complain. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When Scipio finally appeared at the top of the stairs, Prosper stared at him as if he'd seen a ghost. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

She felt the energy of the ghosts dissipating. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Even Baby Neewo seemed to listen, horrified, as Deydey thought about his next move, how he would save himself from the cannibal ghosts. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“I don’t see any ghosts right now,” I say. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

He was smart enough to learn ghost ways. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s just like they give the ghosts a treasure map and instead of there being a big pot of gold where X marks the spot, there’s some poor kid that’s sound asleep. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

There was also a slight sparkle to the spirits if she looked closely, and different ghosts had different-colored sparkles. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And behind them, as the dust cleared, more and more of the ghosts were gazing in horror at the abyss. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the plump, shimmering shapes of the candle flames he saw the ghosts of ten pigeons. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Never before did I see any good side to seeing ghosts. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

My uncle wasn’t a ghost rattling around the house. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

She saw the ghosts of all those unknown dead, heard the great house pant with the labored breath of an old woman. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt his presence on the crowded gallery, saw him in the parking lot—my dark brother, a quivering ghost. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was that skinny, and pale as a ghost. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Penelope didn’t look up as Ophie passed, but the ghost in the army uniform did, raising his bottle in silent toast to Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Two dim lanterns danced across the water toward them like fiery ghosts. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Their hoods are thrown back, revealing their unsettlingly stark features, and, led by Cain, they ghost across the grass and form a half circle around the Commandant’s dais. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

And she spun on her heel and stalked through the door, leaving Sarai alone with the ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the Trobriands conception was the work of ancestral ghosts; nobody had ever heard of a father. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie glanced in its direction, and when she turned back, the ghost had faded, gone back to wherever the dead went when they didn’t inhabit the world of the living. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Rose told me that she won’t talk to you. That ghosts are dangerous. Even you.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Like a ghost himself, the albino deer stood at the edge of the trees. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

There was no beauty here, just the faded ghosts of past tenants who’d moved on to better things. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

His words puzzled me until I recalled his role as the ghost. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She’d never be able to write it in ink, but it was there all the same, a ghost in the letter. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

The last thing Cletus needs is a ghost to dwell on. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

We all stared at him like he said he’d seen a ghost. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

There were no ghosts in this world, or if there were they never showed themselves. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I would always yearn for them and remember them, but there was nothing left for me in Europe but ghosts. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I hear his voice in my head, but the words are like ghosts. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’d overturned the chariot and destroyed several buildings, but every time he threw off a wave of attackers in his hurricane, the ghosts simply got up and charged again. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She had conquered her fear of the ghosts Clara would invoke and the mice in the countryside, but earthquakes shook her to her bones and long after they had passed she was still trembling. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the streets were ghosted, colorless and hushed. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There's no such thing as a ghost; besides, all you had to do was speak friendly-like to them. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tiptoed back through the house and slipped outside, quiet as a ghost. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

After that, there was no trace of Anna—she’d been ghosted. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Leo felt more like a ghost than ever. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Finally, she evanesced the ghosts, starting with Azareen’s grandmother, infusing the dream with their sighs of release. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“You know the law. Strict to the letter. No books, no houses, nothing to be produced which in any way suggests ghosts, vampires, fairies, or any creature of the imagination.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sarah and the ghost boy walk out of the courtroom, turning once to look back at dead me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Hazel and Leo were still ghosts, but now they stood in front of a rundown house next to a drainage ditch overgrown with weeds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But in this instance, hindsight does not make us clairvoyant so much as blind to the ghosts and goblins that floated above the political landscape in the 1790s. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

She gave no visible signal, but in the dining room, the ghost unfroze and pivoted toward the interior door. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

These were dark days, and it was good to have a challenge to take his mind off ghosts and doom: make Ruby completely lose track of herself, while not ending up a pile of char. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

After my parents left, Roberto and I sat on the mattress and told ghost stories until we got sleepy. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“Thought you were ghosting for a second,” Arthur says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Then he saw her in the reflection on the screen, like a white-robed ghost, arms folded. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was like an eerie dream, seeing faces of ghosts from the past. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

There were ghost plagues, bandit plagues, wars with the Japanese, floods. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

One of the black vapory ghosts was wearing the lion’s-skin cape of a standard bearer and holding a pole with a golden eagle, icicles frozen to its wings. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“I’m just scared of ghosts, Pudge. And home is full of them.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

She had apparently won against the one ghost, but ghost forms are various and many. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turned around and almost jumped at the sight of a female figure coming out of the shadows from behind the storehouse, like a ghost. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I’d spend this year with a bunch of other ghosts from other nowhere places until they said I could leave, and then I’d have to go haunt some other spot. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I could imagine that every sound was made by demons or ghosts gathering in the dark to whisper by the door while they waited to pounce on me. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to imagine the ghost surrounded with sunlight and baseball games and poetry—good stuff that would push the ghost away. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

In talking to Aunt Rose’s husband, Ophie was reminded that it wasn’t places that ghosts haunted, but people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

On the stage, Mr. Shakespeare gave the cue in his hollow ghost's voice: "Adieu, adieu, adieu. Remember me." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

She remembered the ghosts on the balcony in San Juan - pointing at her, whispering accusations: Murderer. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s like we was in a bucket of ghosts,” said Johnny. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lantern threw her shadow up the hill, a black ghost attached to her feet, and she shivered as the wind came rattling through the pine branches. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Whenever the cricket shows up after that, he is just a ghost. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are just as blank as the other ghosts’. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The night me and Ma busted into Mr. Charles's store, Mr. Charles looked at us like he was looking at two ghosts. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

If Ophie could lay out the pieces of the puzzle for the ghost, maybe she could put them all together and come to the answer herself. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Out here he doesn’t know how or when or where or even if transmissions are being broadcast; out here he chases ghosts. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

They moved through her, then: ghost hands lent her strength that she no longer possessed. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Angry ghosts had a deep purple aura that scared Ophie, and she tried to avoid looking at those ghosts as much as possible. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Pocock was ghosting over the water as if effortlessly, his boat ethereal looking in a light mist that had settled on the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

“She does not mean you well,” whispered a ghost voice in her ear. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

No doubt her time in the Underworld had given her enough ghost experiences for two lifetimes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Moon Orchid said that she had overheard Mexican ghosts plotting on her life. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The three boys, pale as ghosts, followed him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think the demoness is the ghost of a Tang woman? I mean she could have forgotten a lot even if she was a ghost.” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

The feast finished with an entertainment provided by the Hog-warts ghosts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

As I got closer, I realized the glow was a ghost. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I’d finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be discovered. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Like all grates in the Quarter, it leads down into the Serra’s catacombs: home to skeletons, ghosts, rats, thieves...and possibly the Scholars’ Resistance. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

As he hopped in, he saw a ghost in the driver’s seat. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

I could be back in Holkham, with the screech of gulls in my ears and salt on my tongue and a ghost train passing on the rusted track half a mile away. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was as though her ghost hovered before him, breathing the heavy fumes of whiskey into his face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dark magic formed us from animal, bronze, and ghost! We exist to feed on the blood of young men. Now come, give me that kiss!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She ducked between two earthen ghosts, allowing them to smash each other’s heads in. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One month after her arrival, at the mouth of the ghost tunnel, Cora remained certain of her decision. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The little boy ghost shrieked something like “Greggus!” and turned invisible. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The smile that had been ghosting across Miss Anderson’s face while Miss Preston admonished me drops off real quick, and Miss Anderson’s usual sourpuss face reappears. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

After all, if someone had told her that her daddy’s ghost was sitting next to her and she couldn’t see him, would she believe them? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe I am lucky—that at the age of nine I was given the ghosts of my parents’ best selves, and at twenty-three the ghost of my true love’s best self. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Intent on keeping their balance, they ignored him altogether, and Lord Asriel felt the hair stir at the back of his neck when he realized that they were ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The bit about the ghost trying to look at itself in the river of death is a subtle touch which is quite characteristic of him and quite unlike any Greek writer. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He scratched his hair, and ghost lice crept over his fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What did he do to you?” asked Mrs. Owens, but she was not certain that the ghost could hear her. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“You’re dead,” Ophie said to the ghost, as one of the party guests walked over to check the old woman's pulse. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The music of little dots being eaten up and ghosts following the smiling yellow cartoon was the only sound in the candy store. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

No one noticed the ghost, but the locals looked askance at Nico. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t see it in the grass; it looked like my sister was chasing a ghost. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

“Aunt Rose says ghosts stick around because they have unfinished business.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was traditional to put a stone in the mouth of a person who had been murdered, to prevent him from speaking to the living if he returned as a ghost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was as though the great hall thronged with ghosts. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are mentioned in the Prophecy of Seven, which sent the first expedition to Alaska—” Cato the ghost snorted. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The Union army had never caught him in action—he was a river ghost to the boys in blue uniforms. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he picked up his sickle, whirled around and sickled the smell that fixed the ghost forever. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She pawed through Miss Lilian’s silk dresses, her velvet gowns, her wool coats, setting them swinging and swaying like ghosts. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Almost there; and the dæmons were mad with fear, because more Specters and still more came pressing through the trees, and only the valiant ghosts were holding them back. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The star stroked the unicorn's wet neck and spoke softly to the animal, but it made no move, stood there frozen in the light of the inn like a pale ghost. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

It was because he was the only colored ghost in the manor, and he was also the saddest. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He’s just apologized about the screw falling out and joked that maybe Fish was right about that ghost, eh, CJ? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I watched, over the years, as they devoured her, piece by piece, until she disappeared and became a ghost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

They appear one by one, like ghosts coming to life, and I’m scared to see how much trouble Old Hirsch and Schillinger have just getting down the rungs. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Terrors stirred within her, and she imagined she could hear a din of helpless screaming in the heads of all the ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Will,” said his father’s ghost, “stop a moment. Listen to me.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“He doesn’t know me. He doesn’t even want to know me. He wants that—white—ghost.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

But the ghost of Salim, like the dodos, lords and crew of the Mary Celeste, vanished before we reached nine o’clock. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sky was getting its regular afternoon storm organized: wind whacking the palm leaves together, red dust ghosts flying up from the road, little kids running like bansheets for cover. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think love wears out, and Papa’s love for his brother had worn out now that Uncle Darnell rattled and hollered in the night like a ghost. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

"It starts out when I'm dying. This ghost comes in on Christmas Eve and asks me if I'm ashamed and everything. You know. For betraying my country and everything. Are you coming to it?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I just covered myself in flour, ’cause it makes everything white, like a ghost. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Dirty, cement floor, wires and pipes, and terrible lighting, but at least I couldn’t see the cobwebs or ghosts who’d probably been hanging around since Lincoln was president. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Ophie did not fully understand how the dead worked, but she knew that a ghost that powerful and angry could hurt those around them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He became a ghost and a legend that haunted both North and South. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was not crazy for seeing ghosts nor was she one of those the women teased for “longing” after men. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was never afraid of the ghosts, you know.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In the darkness of the hall, Mama’s ghost is hawking me, following me on my way to the kitchen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The ghost passed through the portico and disappeared inside. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And then—I don’t know, maybe my mom’s right and there’s nothing but ghosts everywhere in Louisiana, because I swear it’s like someone just up and comes and whispers an idea in my ear. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He was like someone out of a ghost story, and Turner tried to draw away. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Then real as anything I can name, Abue ghosts into the room. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

I do not believe in ghosts, unless they are just lingering atoms from the dead; atoms that didn’t know how to let go of one another. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

‘It will be a grey ship, and full of ghosts.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

The ghosts of friends lost in the last months flitted across when I least expected them. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like an uneasy ghost, I rise from my pallet and pace up and down the corridor to shake the fearsome visions. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And I decided that the best way to do that would be to read her a book, read it to her loud enough to keep the ghosts away. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

If I were a ghost, she wondered, regarding herself like a stranger, what would I change about myself? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Give a new name every time you get arrested; the ghosts won’t recognize you. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn around to see the smallest ghost shrimp standing hunch-shouldered at the top of the ramp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

That’s why great former cities in states like Georgia are pretty much ghost towns these days. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

There was a ghost of a smile on his face as he watched the sky melt into a smear of tangerine. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“You might let us go in through that door and find the ghost we’ve come here to look for; I hope you would, anyway. If you’d be so kind.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It didn’t have to pause and carefully fit any flesh-on-skeleton mass through the gap, but flowed out with the ease of a ghost, which was what it was. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When he reached the ghost, he saw it wore a monk’s habit - sandals, woollen robes and a wooden cross around his neck. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ghost is listening to us right now, and tonight it will walk again but stronger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stood up, sputtering, and saw the ghost of a very glum- looking girl sitting cross-legged on top of one of the taps. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Olly: not a ghost? a fairytale princess then, which one are you? Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her room was violated by captive ghosts, and she feared that what awaited her in sleep was worse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wide golden prairie that Lee Scoresby’s ghost had seen briefly through the window was lying quiet under the first sun of morning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Thank you, Ellen,” she said, and carried the cup with her on her way, leaving the ghost, bewildered, behind her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It reminds them of the big salt—that’s the ocean. Since ghosts can’t cross water, they stay away from the color.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“If the servants hear noise, they’ll think the ghosts are back,” Alba said, and she told him of the glorious past of visiting spirits and flying tables in the big house on the comer. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the sort of communication there’s no particular reason to believe in under ordinary circumstances and I’m generally not big on ghosts. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was the ghost who always died violently before reappearing at her place at the table, and Ophie worried that she did not have time for much conversation before the woman choked. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He had not disappeared; he was not a ghost. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

An evil presence seemed afoot, and my skin prickled as if touched by invisible ghosts. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When he looked out over those soldierless congregations, he must have seen ghosts, marching north. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie was more eager than ever to talk to Aunt Rose about the ghosts of Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Grandpa closed the door, but it didn’t any more shut me out than if I was a ghost. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

If ghosts haunted people, not places, what did that do to the living they were attached to? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I roused my mother, who at first looked as though she was seeing a ghost. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The building didn’t seem as full of ghosts as it had. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

It was strange to see his empty shell when his ghost had so recently been in the citadel. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Haint” was the word Gran had used in her stories to mean ghosts, or spirits of people and things that hadn’t moved on. from our world to the next. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

There were so many ghosts in our house—the ghost of my brother, the ghosts of my father’s war, the ghosts of my sister’s voices. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Forget monsters and ghosts—what if there was another hole in the floor? Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

So she just looked at his pale form instead, and the ghost saw the passion and brilliance in her eyes, and took strength from it. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I cannot exaggerate the enhanced disquiet into which this conversation threw me, or the special and peculiar terror I felt at Compeyson’s having been behind me “like a ghost.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

One, Moby, pale as a ghost, stringy and angular from sliding crystal. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Get away from me, Satan!” shouted my mother, continuing to back away from the package as if fleeing a ghost. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faster and faster she tumbled, down and down, and some ghosts couldn’t bear to watch; they hid their eyes and cried aloud. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was a letter from a ghost, from the past. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I took out two one-hundred-dollar bills and put them in a different envelope, which I gave to the ghost. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

School’s been canceled and the empty hallways are filling with ghosts. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But then, she wondered, what could a hurt and angry ghost do with a broken heart? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“That old woman’s ghost. Suppose she was a witch?” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Unlike the ghosts around them, Peeves the Poltergeist was the very reverse of pale and transparent. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And it had an effect on the ghosts, too: seeing Will standing unafraid and unharmed, they began to drift back toward the travelers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes he could even turn the tables and bend ghosts to his will. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was a ghost in her own village, already seen as the bride of the ngozi. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A Greek,” one of the ghosts said with disgust. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It started out with Patria scolding me for telling Nelson ghost stories. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While riding on the train to Pittsburgh, Ophie had seen a ghost outlined in a deep, stormy gray that shaded to black. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Farid saw other ghosts and spirits, too, whole armies of them: malignant, all-powerful beings who tore the hearts out of poor mortal boys and ate them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“God. I look like a ghost. How can you stand me?” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Less than an hour later, I'm locked inside a ghost wagon that is heading for Blackcliff. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“What if I’m already dead? What if I’m a ghost?” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

But then again, I was standing on the edge of the river talking to a ghost. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His eyes narrowed and his mouth widened slightly with the ghost of a superior "Hm!" The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

You could sit next to a ghost at a bus stop and never know it. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The ghost nuns in their black robes look like they’re gliding on ice. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

But her ghost was thrust aside by the ghost of a man who looked like a monk: thin and pale, with dark, zealous eyes even in his death. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ghosts of Pittsburgh were many and varied. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mother says that we, like the ghosts, have no memories. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

During one particularly wet winter, Uric became convinced by the moaning of his Augureys that he had died and was now a ghost. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A long- sword in the hand of a ghost. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“How can you take the word of a ghost for truth?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When Leo woke, he wondered if he was a ghost in another flashback, because he was floating weightlessly. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“All these ghosts and things. It just seems like it right now.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Like ghosts up the ladder, taking their weapons with them. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He spun around angrily—and then stared at Prosper as if he had seen a ghost. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

Some ghosts were sleeping in the boughs of the trees, while others looked at them curiously. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“I don’t think she can be a ghost,” I decided finally. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

We heard the footsteps stop outside Irene’s door, but there was empty time between the end of those steps and the heavy rap of his knuckles: ghost time. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

Jason had hoped that particular ghost would stay away, but every night the dream got worse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“You’d be a sort of extra-concentrated ghost,” said Ron, chortling, as they passed the Bloody Baron going in the opposite direction, his wide eyes staring sinisterly. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I must of turn white as a ghost. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Her daughter visited her every day, but Moon Orchid kept telling her, “Don’t come see me because the Mexican ghosts will follow you to my new hiding place. They’re watching your house.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What about that ghost lady? The one who escaped while the fairies were trapping Bahumat?” Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The remaining ghosts began to disappear on their own. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He looked like a shivering ghost, deathly pale, lips tinged blue. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z

After the dream she’d had, the last thing she needed was another baleful ghost glaring at her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Then this: I’m back home again, but I’m a ghost. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

I need to bury something to anchor his ghost. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I wondered who was covering for him as I wove my way through the pileup and toward the store, hoping my cap would keep me invisible—I felt like a ghost anyway. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

From inside the burqa, Mariam gave her a ghost of a nod. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She’s a ghost on the porch, a cloudy vapor to my right. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

As if to avoid the eyes of all the ghosts, the dead ones who had built their town. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The suspended creatures turn their heads in the direction of the ghost in their midst. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Surrounded by ghosts as she had always been, Sarai had wondered what it was like at the last, and how much power a soul had, to leave the body or stay. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The ghosts in the house start to crowd us. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Just like Clayton could read the tones and nods and ghost notes of Cool Papa’s guitar-playing, he could read what it meant when her usual scolding tones changed to something more hard and firm. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

She had done this before, but there was always the idea of Jack, a ghost of him that grinned as it accompanied her. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

“My ghost won’t associate with your ghost,” Matthias said primly, and then wondered if the sea air was rotting his brain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

These ghosts would kill her in a minute if they were free. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

They couldn’t see her, not her—a trembling ghost perched on the chest of her own fresh corpse. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Chelsea says their ghosts are still here, along with Miss Willis's ghost. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Good thing Mr. Watson is a ghost, I think. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Everyone she knew, she had always known—except for captured ghosts, who weren’t exactly keen on pleasantries. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Their faces showed complete awe, as if they were watching two ghosts strolling through a graveyard. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

“You shouldn’t have come here, Béene, but you are here and nobody in Kilanga wants you to starve. They understand that white people make very troublesome ghosts.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can't wait to leave this sad house, with a ghost of a mother wandering from room to room in her white widow's sari. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ghost of the warm dream slipped away with the cold morning breeze, and Jinny found herself hopping up and yanking Loo along with her, out of the cabin. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

One of the ghosts charged, his hands out to strangle her, but he passed right through her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He wasn’t afraid of curses, ladders, or black cats, but he saw ghosts everywhere, and not just the ghost of the old woman now sleeping buried somewhere in the hard ground. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Here everything was new plastic, a ghost trick to lure immigrants into feeling safe and spilling their secrets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If the ghost was mad, didn’t she have a right to be? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Who is this ghost? Not an honored widow. Just a number- three concubine. If you take your daughter, she will become like you. No face. Never able to lift up her head.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pac- Man got eaten by the red ghost dude. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Behind them came the endless column of ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Irish do have a despairing quality of gaiety, but they have also a dour and brooding ghost that rides on their shoulders and peers in on their thoughts. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Unlike Casper and Grandma S., Mom is not a friendly ghost. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

As a result, mind became ‘the ghost in the machine’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

“Years ago we in the South made our women into ladies. Then the War came and made the ladies into ghosts. So what else can we do, being gentlemen, but listen to them being ghosts?” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was leading a ghost behind her like a pet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She tossed and turned all night, as if she were wrestling ghosts in her dreams. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t know what that part means. About fighting a ghost. How would you fight a ghost?” The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Not with ghosts in the house. Got all the company I need.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Me and the ghosts keep watching the TV. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The people of Bone Gap said it was the ghost of the old lady who’d died there fifty years before. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I wasn’t sure if they were fooling, but right then, in the darkness of those same woods, that image hung before me like the ghost itself. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“The show is over and it looks like you just saw a ghost.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“It keeps the ghosts from coming into the house.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But after several hours, I go anyway, walking in silent sock feet, so as not to awaken the ghosts. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

He looked down at us, mocking, faintly sardonic, a ghost of a smile on his lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

And because, though I knew Arul was right that we had nothing to fear from the dead, a part of me was still scared a ghost might float by. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

Now, ghosts in baggy pants, their underwear showing, wearing short-sleeve T-shirts and body tattoos, are from my time. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

As for the ghosts of the kids, I guess Chelsea's brother saw Diana and Georgie running around in the woods the way they always do. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In the corner of the ghost wagon, something flickers, dark and creeping. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

John Parry’s ghost and the ghost of Lee Scoresby recovered their senses first. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Eyes fixed forward, she passed the ghosts standing guard. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was a ghost town on the weekend, with only a few cars and the occasional passersby. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I can’t help it; despite warnings and ghosts and shaky boycotts and cataclysmic girl-destroying exhalations, I lie down, rest my head on Oscar’s pillow, and breathe in the faint scent of him: peppery, sunny, wonderful. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t often you spotted a ghost in Ravenskill, but she had seen a few here and there. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Because you ditched me. The second you got placed in House Hyacinth, it was like I was a ghost. You haven’t sent me messages or called or anything!” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

He raised the conch for a moment "Very well then. I suppose what's what is whether there are ghosts or not-" He thought for a moment, formulating the question. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Was Hamlet mad, I wondered, with his talk of ghosts and murder? Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The company halted, and there was not a heart among them that did not quail, unless it were the heart of Legolas of the Elves, for whom the ghosts of Men have no terror. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

It must be his baby milk name, the name used to discourage ghosts from stealing children. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their midst, watching and laughing with his young queen by his side, sat a ghost in a golden crown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Horatio, his eyes fixed on the child, rises like a man entranced by some ghost or magical creature. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

When I was younger, I used to think there were just old and older ghosts. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

As they neared the village, Will was telling Mary what he had learned about dæmons and ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Sparrow had, in fact, tried to visit Sarai, but ghosts blocked the corridor and wouldn’t let her through. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ophie figured it was based on their mood: most happy ghosts glimmered yellow, while sad ghosts like the one sitting next to Miss Alice were outlined in shimmering blue. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You have no power over me. I am the lord of spirits! The ghost king!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

In another life, she could have been him—a ghost trapped in a terrible place. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I wondered if my mama, wherever she was, had a tree full of bottles; and I wondered if I was a ghost to her, the same way she sometimes seemed like a ghost to me. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“This is terrible ghost country, where a human being works her life away,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a scarf over her head so she looked like a pioneer kid—like the ghost of Little House on the Prairie or something. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“Come on, Mistress Owens. Leave it be. There’s a dear,” said Mr. Owens, when he saw a ghost, and his mouth dropped open, and he found himself unable to think of anything to say. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

It was like I was a ghost hovering outside of myself, watching some alternate-world Evie have a conversation with the girl she liked. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

So far the ghosts weren’t paying her any special attention. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He felt the ghosts waiting in darkness until he and Cilia were gone before they stepped forth to take possession. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did not understand. . . . three heads has the dragon . . . the ghost chorus yammered inside her skull with never a lip moving, never a breath stirring the still blue air. . . . mother of dragons . . . child of storm . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Kem, the ghost footman, said it had been the butchering room before, and the channel was for blood and the big hooks on the ceiling were for hanging meat. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She rolled to her knees and backed away from the ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Half these people expect to see a ghost around every corner.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

And before Sarai could process what was happening, one of the ghosts lunged toward her and raised a knife, her face savage with hate and intent, and Sarai couldn’t get out of the way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Why do the ghosts call him the Greek?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

But Harry was looking at Ron, who was very white and staring at Harry as though he were a ghost. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

There were secrets never to be said in front of the ghosts, immigration secrets whose telling could get us sent back to China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’ve been in the blazing sun for a few weeks, and yet my mom is a ghost. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

Ophie did not wait for the old ghost to follow her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I can see her dresses are still hanging in the closet, like little ghosts of her missing her body, and her shoes are still lined up beneath them. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He sort of did see a ghost. The ghost of Luciana.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The ghosts’ existence, if it can be called that, is like a miserable dream. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a funny feeling Diana didn't want me blabbing about the ghost. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“And don't start carrying on about ghosts again. After all, you won't be alone this time.” Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She rode the trolley with her mother sullenly, her eyes hooded as she watched the crying girl ghost next to the chatty old colored woman. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I should’ve gone out with the children more,” the ghost muttered to himself. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My big brother reaches home in the dark hours before dawn, when even ghosts take their rest. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

She’s the good cop of my ghost world; Mom, the bad. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh, for goodness sake, Lissa, only ignorant people believe in ghosts.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

In among the press of all the ghosts, there he was, his familiar features wan but his expression as full of delight as a ghost could be. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Isn’t that what Mom’s ghost is telling me by breaking everything I make? I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

It is discouraging to have had the wrong aunts, and never the ghost of a message. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m a ghost now, I think, a ghost with no footprints. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stood there for a minute, feeling like maybe I’d seen a ghost. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“The ghosts were right. Only one of us made it to the Doors of Death. You...you would have made Dad proud.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And I thought that maybe there were ghosts inside of me that I hadn’t even met yet. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

It was unspeakable that she should pity a human, ghost or living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe because Uncle Darnell wasn’t his whole self but was like a ghost. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the dark I could just make out white shapes like ghosts huddled in doorways and curled against buildings. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Almost,” said the ghost sadly, and he drifted away. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Being in Pompeii gave Reyna the same feeling, as if the whole city was one big ghost that had swallowed her whole. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And then I thought of those pictures of melting ghost faces I’ve seen somewhere, where the mouths are open wide and they’re screaming. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The ghost of Hamlet’s dead father tells him to avenge his murder by killing his uncle. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was exactly—he broke out in a sweat—the kind of sound ghosts would make as they gathered in a dark forest. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts clambered out of the earth, pale forms paler still in the midday light. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She could have bound those ghosts—even the gods’ ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The earthen ghosts closed in - a sea of misshapen faces with hollow eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t think ghosts provided food fit for living people at their parties.” Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Tell them the room was crawling with cooties, or a ghost used to live there. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

They passed the ghost of a tall witch gliding in the opposite direction, but saw no one else. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

They were racked with guilt for being alive, racked with pain in their heads and fear of ghosts, racked with nightmares and strange compulsions, punishments for being alive when the others were dead. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

You might be swimming in a lake and come upon a spot that is cold and murky, and it feels like you have swum through a ghost. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But they fade, though I stretch out my arms towards them, they slip away from me, ghosts at daybreak. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts told the governess that she would never know love. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The squat ghost of a girl had glided over. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

A dim light was glowing behind him, and it wasn’t easy to make out his features; but they knew he wasn’t a ghost. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

On the floor of the endless plain, there was a vast, slow movement among the uncountable ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The Bloody Baron was the Slytherin ghost, a gaunt and silent specter covered in silver bloodstains. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She wore pink lipstick and had blue eyelids like the ghosts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were ghosts all around, but the vines and billows of flowers made nooks you could almost hide in. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sparrow and Ruby threw snowballs at each other, their laughter a bit too sharp, their aim a bit too true, and Minya slipped away somewhere, promising to release the ghost, Ari-Eil, to his natural evanescence. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t mean anything. Shadows are all over the place. Shadows aren’t ghosts.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

“Ghosts, you mean? I do not believe in ghosts.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

There stood Noodles—looked like he had seen a ghost. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

I run my hands along my arms to get rid of the ghosts of hair, sleeves, and skin that brushed against me on the way up. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

What else but this fever could commute my father’s ghost crying, “Jezebel!” into a curl of blue smoke drifting out through a small, bright hole in the thatch? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Just as you have done. You have your own share of ghosts, eh?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It was spooky, like seeing a ghost floating facedown in the water. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

“Grandma,” I said in a breaking voice, though my voice was beginning to break anyway, “are you talking about the brakeman’s ghost?” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The chaplain, pale as a ghost, had no idea what was going on. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She could work at the laundry from 6:30 a.m. until midnight, shifting a baby from an ironing table to a shelf between packages, to the display window, where the ghosts tapped on the glass. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally Cora’s mind tricked her and she’d turn the story into one of her memories, inserting the faces of ghosts, all the slave dead, who looked down at her with love and indulgence. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It seemed as if ghosts could not hear or see very well. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He held them off with his sharp weapon until he saw the ghost of Teiresias. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Frank rubbed his hand across his buzz-cut hair as if some ghosts might have invaded his scalp. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The other ghosts followed Roger, and Will and Lyra fell exhausted on the dew-laden grass, every nerve in their bodies blessing the sweetness of the good soil, the night air, the stars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He was worried he might become one of those ghosts if they lost this war—eternally doomed to pay for his failures, assuming there was anyone left to summon him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ice crunched beneath his boots, and a sudden gust pushed back his hood, as if a ghost had plucked at him with frozen fingers, hungry to gaze upon his face. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Among them were beings who didn’t look human at all, beings like the mulefa, whom Mary Malone would have recognized, and stranger ghosts as well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then you’re left with nothing, left not even with a ghost but with its shadow. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The ghouls and ghosts closed in - two hundred of them facing Jason in anticipation, as if he might lead them in the national anthem. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Yes,” said the ghost, “his name was Sandling...oh, I loved him...” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Pink thought I meant Papa saw his ancestor’s ghost. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

A person who had no one would be well advised to cobble together some passable ghost. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

“When the tree is dead, ghosts eat the leaves.” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

As the ghost turned away, Sarai saw how her eyeballs strained to stay fixed for as long as possible on her, and she read pain in them, and apology. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But it was the love of a ghost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her ghost, her fate, and Weep’s fate, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That ghosts could linger, draining spaces of their life if they weren’t taken care of. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The magna mater!” a ghost wailed in despair. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He sometimes feels the ghost of carpal tunnel creeping back, a fond ache. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Did that make him unworthy to lead a legion of Roman ghosts? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

We powdered ourselves with ash to imitate ghosts. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Trust me, there’s no ghost in that house. Snakes and spiders and mice. Squirrels. Bats. But no ghost—I guarantee it.” The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Mother warned of illnesses that befell children who did not eat their lentils and of ghosts that stalked them in their sleep. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

In those days, a ghost was anything we were forbidden to talk about. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought of the Mary Celeste, a ghost ship with no crew, sailing over the horizon. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it might as well have been a ghost, because the next second, whoever was there is gone. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

About twenty ghosts had just streamed through the back wall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

And here was the ghost of her childhood, diffused throughout the room, to remind her of the limited arc of existence. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

That she seemed to float back and forth like a ghost, dipping cool cloths to lay on Popo’s bloated face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

If all the people that has consumption in Limerick were to die this would be a ghost town, though I don’t have consumption meself. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

And both of them felt the strangest sensation, as if little ghost hands were reaching inside and tugging at their ribs to make them follow. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Don’t worry, children, she won’t send any ghosts. Who wants to help me with Papa’s supper?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I can do is put in time waiting for the inevitable, observing as the ghosts of my past rattle around my vacuous present. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She said, “Maybe we could get Roger’s ghost out. Maybe we could rescue him.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And what the ghost voice said was, “But I can’t swim.” Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

When I was little, I used to think that we visited my mom’s grave because she was somehow there—like we were really going to spend time with her ghost or something like that. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You better be saving me, Beyonce, or I swear I will come back like one of those too-much-eyeliner ghosts in a Japanese movie and haunt you forever!” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Less substantial than living bodies, but much more than ghosts, they moved toward him, and on each face, there was the same loving smile. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

They sound to me like ghosts, or like animals caught in a trap: thin wails of exhausted pain. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Like smoke, maybe. But don’t go getting the idea that I’m a ghost. There are no ghosts.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

That counselor said ghosts—she used finger quotes around the word—are often manifestations of a guilty conscience. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

A strange machine, built years before, to talk to a ghost. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ghost girl spoke, but in her thin, pale voice, it was only a whisper. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ghost girl said, “This way—come with us—we’ll find them!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And yet Ken still struggled with what veteran spies called "seeing ghosts," the psychological habit of believing that you are being watched by the enemy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“But for a moment I thought I was seeing a ghost.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Fellow members, ” he said, “a ghost. A ghost!” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

The other ghosts withdrew a little, leaving them alone, and Will moved apart, too, to sit down and nurse his hand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She didn’t care for the ghost in the dining room, and she thought maybe she could try a different one first. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He left, going the same way that Dustfinger had gone the night before, disappearing as if the ghosts who lurked in the darkness had eaten him alive. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The first chore of the amakhankatha was to paint our naked and shaved bodies from head to foot in white ocher, turning us into ghosts. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like he’d told the ghosts at Ithaca, his family had just got bigger. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I move briskly down the walkway, advancing toward the alcove near the stairwell, my ghost breaths trailing behind me. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ghost smiled, and a chill breeze danced across Ophie’s skin, raising goose bumps on her arms. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The doctor recorded his regiment and company and dressed his wounds, but without much hope of success; the loss of blood being great, it was supposed he would soon give up the ghost. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

That brought the ghost of a smile to her lips. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They were ghosts themselves, caught between two worlds: the reality of their crimes, and the hereafter denied them for those crimes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He knew that indeed this man, whatever he was, was not what he feared: he was no shadow or ghost or gebbeth-creature. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost looked embarrassed and took his seat. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In that location, the ghosts couldn’t find him. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Will plunged after Lee Scoresby’s ghost into the undergrowth, slashing to right and left with the knife. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When Dad was fired, and when Mom’s patients started dropping off, they were sometimes like ghosts of themselves. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She said this so that the ghosts would not steal us away. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

But tonight the younger women were huddling together under the quilts, the ghost room with its door open steps away. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost trailed off and seemed to look at something in the distance. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Which means ghosts are not al all what I imagined them to be. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

The ghosts were thickest there, and it made sense. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

‘So you think we were drawn here because you have some sort of connection to the ghosts. Like what happened in San Juan?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Orange ones, of course, in honor of Halloween, while she read poems about pumpkins and ghosts. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

She bumped against a knife held fast in a ghost’s grip. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

We will be so happy when I come back to the valley, healthy and strong and not a ghost. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I know,” she said, “ghosts all over the place.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw Faber stop up his own breath for fear of drawing that ghost into his own body, perhaps, being contaminated with the phantom exhalations and odours of a running man. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once when I was little, she told me she knew it would rain because lost ghosts were circling near our windows, calling “Woo-woo” to be let in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whole thing still seemed like some mythology or ghost story, but the more she thought about it, the realer it became. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

“It is the ghost!” she screeched in terror. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

He looks at me, and right here and now, I know he’s seeing me—not the ghost of Khalid, or who my dad thinks I ought to be, but the real me. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

But then, with time running out in the half, he had fumbled again, as if the ghost of Charlie caused the football to go bouncing along the turf like a basketball. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she got sold to Rhode Island, and the ghosts of her parents couldn’t follow and protect her neither. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No; I’ve been variously described, but nobody’s yet explained me away as a ghost.” The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She looked real, but I knew she was a ghost because she died at least ten years ago. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Light was growing, and the tall columns and carven figures beside the way went slowly by like grey ghosts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

Ophie gasped and recoiled, but a few heartbeats later, the ghost disappeared and immediately reappeared right where she’d been, laughing and chatting in the seat at the head of the table. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

By the time night falls, the infirmary is quiet, occupied by bodies and ghosts. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“People driving through here at night claim to see ghosts, especially at those turns below the power plant,” I said. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Wind howled around the house the way it did on the radio for a ghost story, and Marly shivered in bed and covered herself clear to the eyes. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

Next she covers my face in a minty-scented cream that hardens into a mask, and I sit there picturing how crazy I look with my eyes covered in vegetables and my face like a ghost’s. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mama couldn’t see the ghosts who crowded around the living as they went along their daily tasks. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Near them three red ghosts were busily unloading demijohns from a moving staircase. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The name hung between them like a ghost. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man with the beard and the turban, who did not believe in ghosts, was looking around him nervously. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Those who harmed seagulls risked the wrath of ship ghosts, for gulls were inhabited by the spirits of men who had been lost at sea in accidents. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

It was a place where nobody would ever find her—a ghost town on a ghost lake. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

But her ghost was always wandering about the woods, gazing over Hailsham, pining to be let back in. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Faster!” the ghosts cried as one, and she screamed and threw herself forward. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Mama Ya-Ya’s ghosts say so? Prepare? Storm’s coming to New Orleans? Or hurricane? Her ghosts say which?” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Her husband looked like one of the ghosts passing the car windows, and she must look like a ghost from China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The faint flavour of the ghost of my grandfather hung in a friendly way about the place, house, garden and all.” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t tell him that her ghost is upstairs. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Pretty soon we were about as comfy as you can get in a rundown ghost town in the middle of nowhere. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Ma startled me, appearing in front of us like a ghost. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

I felt as insubstantial as the ghost of a cricket. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ghost walked straight toward the windows, passing through the wall. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Big swarms of ghosts were almost impossible to stop and terribly powerful. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then maybe my life as a ghost in this house would finally be over. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

After a few seconds, the game’s attract screen came back up, showing the four ghosts, their names, and their nicknames. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She went right up close, studying him—in profile—in the same shameless way that one might study a statue—or, indeed, in which a ghost might study the living. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The terrible ghosts of impossible-to-forget toys clustered on the blades of the ceiling fan. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the Noah story, but the Cherokee version that her father used to tell her, with the dancing ghosts and the skeleton dog. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The memory of her ghost haunts me, makes me realize that the pain, the longing, the wanting, never goes away. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

I try not to think about stories much anymore, though, especially stories about ghosts. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The shock of first seeing a birch tree at night, rising up in the dark as cool and slim as a ghost. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Not that she thought the ghost would mind, but it seemed rude to put her hand through someone else. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dotted here and there among the students, the ghosts shone misty silver. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Many ghosts in my family already haunt us, friend, so it helps me to know that you’re here. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“That ghost! That dead ghost! How dare he come to the wrong house?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts cheered and threw spectral confetti as Bacchus strode around the stadium with his arms raised triumphantly, exulting in the worship. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The town of Churdan in the center of the county is like a ghost town. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Evan tensed up his fingers as if he were strangling an invisible ghost. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

He was aware of Percy standing over him, swinging his sword and yelling in defiance as the ghosts closed in. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Lyra had sensed that something was wrong, and she jumped up from her close conversation with Roger’s ghost to hurry to Will’s side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

For bringing him here to this weird ghost town place with no explanation. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

I had not a ghost of a chance of calculating the distance to the stars. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

He felt as if he had left the great seance and all the murmuring ghosts. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t honestly imagine her as anything but dead, her body rotting in Vine Station, the rest of her just a ghost alive only in our remembering. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

When I emerge from the bathroom, James isn’t by the door, and I make my way, like a ghost, to the parking lot. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

Other journalists began seeing ghosts, reporting imaginary sightings of Seabiscuit working late at night. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Someone was in the room, and in his confusion, Joseph thought it was the ghost again. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Finn didn’t believe in ghosts, and though the corn wouldn’t stop yapping at him, he was pretty sure it stayed put. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

But still, every time Zara's eyes met mine, I almost felt something chilly pass over me, like how seeing a ghost is supposed to give you goose bumps. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

In some versions of the song, her ghost still walked the Nightfort. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Indeed, it has been over a month since he has had to curl up against the wall in his study and pray that he does not see ghosts shambling through the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Perhaps Moon Orchid had already left this mad old body, and it was a ghost bad- mouthing her children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But it was not that ghost nor any other: A second rub of the fogged glass revealed it was Old Timothy, the coachman. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

That she is the daughter of a ghost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pacing back and forth like a ghost haunting a museum, Hiroshi never makes eye contact with any of the people here to appreciate his paintings. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

They would not tell us children because we had been born among ghosts, were taught by ghosts, and were ourselves ghost-like. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blanket moved like a ghost over his bed. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Turning back to Hugo, he said, “Don’t you know that the sound of clicking boot heels can summon ghosts? Do you want to be followed by ghosts?” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

With that, Felicia made her way to the door and drifted into the hallway like a cinnamon-scented ghost. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie’s thoughts were thick with questions about Aunt Rose’s husband, about the cookies tucked under the rosebush, about so many other things to do with ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Pale white mists rose off Alyssa's Tears, where the ghost waters plunged over the shoulder of the mountain to begin their long tumble down the face of the Giant's Lance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“Why she brings the ghosts, I mean. So we have to see how they look at us, and we can't ever forget what we are.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

No ghosts yet, just ash trees and maples lined up in a mournful row. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

But what if what the ghosts wanted were the people they missed most to be dead like them? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Behind the little boy she could see more ghosts, dozens, hundreds, their heads crowded together, peering close and listening to every word. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They clung together, and the ghosts clustered around, whispering comfort, blessing the harpy. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Her face betrayed a ghost of a smile. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

Besides, it was awfully hard to be glum when Clara was around, ghost or not. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Standing in that temple, staring into the fire that had been burning for hundreds of years, I felt the ghosts of my family all around me. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He looked old, a ghost with eyes that shone from the shadows of his face. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Macbeth is totally delusional and has hallucinations of ghosts and a pesky floating dagger. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

So maybe, just maybe, the furious ghost standing before her had a valid reason. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was an intricate stew of truths and mirages that convulsed the ghost of José Arcadio Buendía under the chestnut tree with impatience and made him wander all through the house even in broad daylight. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Big Ma would love Uncle Darnell even when he was rattling around like a ghost on her couch. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

I shutter myself in while they talk more specifically about what kind of ghost Mom would make. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Was the Spirit Bear still out there prowling like a ghost under the thick canopy of spruce trees? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Around the courtyard, ghosts were forming a mob - hundreds of glowing Romans carrying spectral clubs or stones. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Maybe he means it's some sort of ghost" Ralph Lifted the conch and peered into the gloom. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

And from what Ophie had seen, from what Aunt Rose had always said, ghosts didn’t always have a choice about what they wanted—or how they went about getting it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My skin prickled as Hamlet told how he, too, beheld the ghost of his dead father, armed from head to toe. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As we, the people, move forward, the ghosts of the Chicago riot of 1919 and of the other riots across the nation in that Red Summer whisper in the streets, calling us all to remember. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Easily the most boring class was History of Magic, which was the only one taught by a ghost. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

“You do not know whether there are not ghosts on earth or angels in heaven.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Just sleeping. Though I don’t know why a ghost needs to sleep. She could be sailing the seas. Or flying to Africa.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Soon enough we are ghosts upon the cloud. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The morally suspect ghost of Brother Fowles was thick upon us. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swear I saw the ghost of Granny flit distraught around the room. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Behind Andrew I see a skinny ghost with a beard and bow tie. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Still her ghosts came at him, but the metal moved with them, flowing to block them, catching their weapons and freezing around them. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But when Mauricio Babilonia began to pursue her like a ghost that only she could identify in the crowd, she understood that the butterflies had something to do with him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

"Man, when you popped up out of the water like that, I was sure you were a ghost!" A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

"Did you bring their ghosts ham Pyke, brother? And here I thought they haunted only Father." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She was determined that the ghost of Ignatius J. Reilly would not haunt her party as it had haunted so many evenings of bowling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then it really scared me because I couldn’t see what one door closing had to do with another one opening unless there was a ghost involved. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“Good night, Ophelia. I promise, there will come a time when your Aunt Sarah and I will teach you more about handling haints. For now, please, for the love of all, leave those ghosts be.” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I don’t want to think about spirits or ghosts at all. I just want to know where my mother is.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

That made sense, and explained why there were so many ghosts in Daffodil Manor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The words were all evaporating at the time, but I was certain in my mind that ghosts had been there in the prison with us all along. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Dark bags under his eyes and ribs showing through ghost white Asian skin. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ghosts couldn’t cross the water to help him so he had to make his own way in a strange place, sometimes with an iron collar around his neck. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He shouted ghost words to the empty streets. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is a very moving passage where Achilles—overjoyed at the sight of the apparition—tries to throw his arms around the ghost of his old friend, and it vanishes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I still feel the ghost of a stinging belt on my wrist. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She is the ghost in the background of all of these memories, but I am sure she is much more prominent in my parents’ thoughts. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Also she convinced them of ghosts and of haunted places. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She held up a pair of dentures and made them chatter while she made spooky ghost sounds in the background. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

But it was no use, and now she could not sleep, and the wind was buffeting the walls of their tent, keening like an army of ghosts. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

There is a place in Ville Rose where ghost women ride the crests of waves while brushing the stars out of their hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He looked straight through her and Cockerell, as if they were two of the ghosts he feared so much. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Then I turned and ran into the nearest ghost—Clyde—and committed Pacicide, dying for the first time in the game. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

As he traveled, the memories of those hungry-eyed animals accompanied him, darting and retreating like accusing ghosts. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

‘The ghosts in San Juan . . . they were my ancestors.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"Tell me the name of your ghost, Jorah. You know all of mine." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And now, there are ghosts in the living room. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Not because of the ghost, but because now someone knew her secret. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She looks at him like she’s seeing a ghost—eyes wide and scared. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z

The face was like a ghost—sticky atoms refusing to give way and cooperate with the will of the knackery. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The air was a tangible thing, rushing into Hazel’s lungs as she breathed, touching her skin like a curious ghost. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He sat across from Antinous while more ghosts crowded around, leering as if they expected to see a particularly vicious arm-wrestling contest. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ghost holds out his arm and vows, “You’ll see me again.” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“There are too many,” the ghost said nervously. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Their white trousers and shirts were as clean as the laundry girls’ hands could make them, and the orange glow made the men look like ghosts emerging from the dark. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

So they set off, and the numberless millions of ghosts began to follow them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To Stella, their father’s face, etched with worry in the lamp-lit room, was more frightening than any ghosts. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It felt like the moment the silk sleigh crossed some invisible barrier and the ghosts began to dissolve. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Annabeth squinted at the ghost, but it blazed too brightly to make out details. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The greatest reward of this constant interrogation, of confrontation with the brutality of my country, is that it has freed me from ghosts and girded me against the sheer terror of disembodiment. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

If this was a ghost house, it looked like that ghost had lost his job and all his savings along with the rest of the country. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was indeed a ghost in the house, but she was done with chains, rattling or no. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The woman who took care of me gave that chore to her children, who delighted in torturing me by hiding in the closet and making believe they were ghosts. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Most ghosts make such brief and gauzy appearances that eyewitnesses doubt their own sightings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mean to make my news sound scary, but a ghost now seems harmless compared to what we just heard. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The upper rows were filled with several dozen ghosts and a few older veterans from the city, all in formal togas. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I’ll free Day, shout out a signal, then John will emerge from the wall like a ghost and escape with us. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

“If you did, ma’am, it was his ghost.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s said to be haunted by the ghost of Diocletian.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“That used to be a temple to Jupiter. The Christians changed it to a baptistery. The Roman ghosts don’t like that.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They were close to the first of the people now, and it was clear: they were all ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose had said all ghosts want something, but what was Ophie to do with the ones who wanted something impossible? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

They broke into an incomprehensible argument about the ghost. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Let the ghosts of Pompeii destroy this Greek statue. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Like being a Rusty ghost watching as its city crumbled over the centuries. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

The ghosts probably found this even more amusing than two beggars fighting to the death. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

An older ghost rested his hand on the shoulder of the lady who had quickly drained her champagne, and she shivered as he did so. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He saw something flash in Archie’s eyes, like looking at a blank window and observing a ghost peeking out. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wish there wasn’t a ghost kid in the room with me. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Then the church door opened, a priest came out, and the ghosts, haunts, and corpses vanished, and only the priest and the drunk were left alone in the graveyard. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“A ghost, you mean? You saw a ghost?” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

“If you mean me harm or if you be un fantasma—a ghost—go away!” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is the cavern of Mithras,” said the old ghost. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“That does look good,” said the ghost in the ruff sadly, watching Harry cut up his steak. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sidman tried some ghost stories after the singing, but there’s something about principals that makes it impossible for them to tell ghost stories. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

She told herself that if the ghost of the creature could not speak or see, then no real harm could be done. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But like it or not, there were many ghosts in Daffodil Manor, and she couldn’t just avoid them forever. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I whisper my mountain stories in his ear, stories of the ghost women and the stars in their hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

‘You turned him into a ghost. And, yes, it reminded me of what happened to my father.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There’s an inconsistency, a ghost in this story. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Okay, here goes. Do you believe in spirits? Or ghosts?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘Oh, don’t worry about the tray. But what on earth was it that made you drop it? Why did you go white as a ghost all of a sudden?’ The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost scowled at Percy and walked around him, inspecting him like a used car. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At Ellis Island when the ghost asked Brave Orchid what year her husband had cut off his pigtail, a Chinese who was crouching on the floor motioned her not to talk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts pounded their swords against their shields. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Most people would feel ghosts if they let themselves. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Or she could go to the door, stand in front of her ghost guards, and scream down the corridor until Minya came. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Across the ancient sea floor a dozen tall, blue-sailed Martian sand ships floated, like blue ghosts, like blue smoke. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through sheer, savage will, Minya poured even her life force into the colossal expenditure of magic necessary to hold on to her ghosts and keep her charges safe—and not just safe but loved. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And indeed the ghosts were moving more purposefully now that they were out of sight of their own village. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But Thomas knew they were not, of course, ghosts. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

What if when they hang your photo up at Cracker Barrel, your ghost has to forever haunt Cracker Barrel?” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Front loaders and trucks flitted in and out of the scene like ghosts caught unawares. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Tristran slept on the leather seat of the coach, his head on a sack of oats; he dreamed of ghosts, and of the moon and stars. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

They were, after all, a city of the best ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The Memories play over and over, until I can’t tell whether or not they’ve started again from the beginning, and gradually, I drift off into sleep, surrounded by ghosts. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

No one had lived in it for at least five years, not since a series of haunt- ings had made its inhabitants come down with ghost fear that shattered their brains for studying. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes, that old lady facing the ghost who stamped her papers without questioning her was her sister. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this was the first time she had complained about her missing ghost. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It took a while for the ghost of that kiss to disappear. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

The ghosts whispered to me, telling me to go on. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

“I tell you truly, I doubt this ghost. But the vision has made Hamlet mad. I do not know him anymore.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

She believed in ghosts and fairies and all supernatural folk. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He looks around at the trees, the long frosted willow branches cascading down, the topiaries that line the nearby path like ghosts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I slip in and out of class like a ghost. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“You want it back?” he shouted at the ghosts. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Their minds were fuzzy at best, like the ghosts Frank had seen in Asphodel, but they remembered one thing clearly: they were supposed to protect their eagle. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Gum Baby did the hurting, ghost nerd. Respect the sap or get clapped.” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“I do. I do. But not the way I do here. I don’t hear ghost sounds. I don’t stay awake listening to walking in the kitchen. I don’t hear the doors and windows unhinging.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I keep thinking about ghosts," I said as we walked alongside the pastel houses with flat facades and square windows. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Even then, with her hands sunk in the dough or her apron bloody from the chicken to be served at lunch, she struck him as a sort of ghost in the reverberation of the day. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I must have looked silly hurtling across the roofs, and like a black-face comedian shrinking from a ghost when the white pigeons shot up around me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not stop to ask themselves why he might be making himself essential, given how difficult it must have been to live in the ghost of his childhood home. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie had seen him a handful of times over the last month, but he had never approached her like the ghost on the trolley had, and she never tried talking to him. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Across the highway in the ghost town Amarante Cordova’s light glowed softly from the open door of his crumbling adobe. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It probably said something like: The son of Neptune will drown a whole bunch of ghosts.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Maybe it was the faint light or the way Joon, who was never still, did not even move his hands, but for a moment I thought I was seeing his ghost. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Where an old Englishman ghost, sickled to a tree, was abrogated by a pair of two-egg twins—a Mobile Republic with a Puff who had planted a Marxist flag in the earth beside him. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I know Grandpa’s soul isn’t wandering the woods like the ghosts I sometimes think I glimpse between the trees. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

And now they would be living in a house full of ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

But his father lived and his grandmother was scared the ghosts would turn their attention to this baby boy and take him instead. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could just walk away from it all like a ghost. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Her face and hair were completely white; she seemed to him like a ghost. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Dance for me,” the ghosts would say before handing them a nickel. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

If she were a ghost she would be the same age always. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when Act II started, my mind floated up to the stage and, like a ghost, went through the painted set into the dark corner where we’d hidden the rats. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Sassur’s thumbs were tied together to show that he could no longer work, and his big toes were also tied together so that his ghost could not return. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t believe in ghosts,” he said, even though that wasn’t true at all. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

And why did the ghost tell Pilate to sing? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, I sometimes see my mother’s ghost on Mama Ya-Ya’s bed, her belly big, like she’s forgotten she already gave birth to me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I pictured myself a ghost: bones and teeth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She moved around the house, onto the porch, down the streets, to the fruit stalls and the butchershop, like a restless ghost, finding peace nowhere and in nothing. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost puts up a hand for a high five, but I ignore him. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The mission is a ghost town now, and the agricultural station also nearly deserted. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the ghost-story idea didn’t fly ’cause none of us actually knew any ghost stories. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The ghosts of all the animals would be crying under the water. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The shimmering ghost of a woman drifted forward, and Jason felt as if his bones were turning to dust. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Well, you never know,” said Malfoy with the ghost of a smirk. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I am ninety-one years old, and almost everyone who was once in my life is now a ghost. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

In the dreams of others, she was as a ghost, fated to never be seen. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I step forward and my mother’s ghost head turns, watching me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

It seemed that ghosts should know one another, like roommates sharing a house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She is deathly afraid of seeing the dead and has all kinds of charms pinned to her bra to keep a ghost from coming near. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

In the eerie glow of their magic weapons, his friends looked like flickering ghosts. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I grew up, a curious woman, a woman of story ghosts and story devils, a woman prone to bad dreams and bad insomnia. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I didn’t want to eat anything served by ghosts, but my hunger overruled my fear. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

“What’s wrong with you? Your face just went white as a ghost.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

When the trolley came to their stop, the ghost was gone, and the old man got off in front of them and began to hobble down the block in the opposite direction. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was the ghost’s beloved face, matronly and broad, with her round red “happiness cheeks,” but there was nothing happy to be found in her affect, as flat as all the ghosts in Minya’s army. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every scrap of shelter and deceit was stripped away, and she stood naked, body and ghost and dæmon together, under the ferocity of Metatron’s gaze. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The ghosts stood and walked upon the shore. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of dentists, not ghosts or . . . don't think about purple waves, think about two dollars a minute. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The can jiggled and danced, as though possessed by a ghost. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe they would help her get the ghost’s attention. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I patted my belly and thought of the little ghost of a being folded in the soft tissues of my womb. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was an enemy who caught ghosts like butterflies in a net, and he was a man with his dead love in his arms. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Each time the blades rose from it, the boat ghosted forward without check or hesitation. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The ghosts walked straight into the squalid confusion of the town, as if they knew exactly where they were going, and Lyra and Will were about to follow them; but then they were stopped. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She felt her own ghost quail in her body, and hugged her arms tightly, aching for Pan. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Our people believed that there were demons and ghosts everywhere that tortured the Jew, wracked his body, and terrorized his soul. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

There are nights that I believe that those ghost women are with me. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She could hear Thorn yell from the other side but couldn’t see; the light from the ghosts all around them was too bright. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The word trails out in a repeated line, thin as a ghost. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He bent now and kissed her ghost, and found her mouth full and sweet and smiling. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She gritted her teeth, ceased her ghosts’ attack, and spat out, “Do you want me to save her or not?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Take the coaster straight past the gap,” she said aloud, an incantation to keep away any Rusty ghosts. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Although no one spoke of it, Uncle D had put the medal in the pawnshop when he was sick and moaning, rattling around like a ghost. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Marie-Laure imagines him hunched on the davenport, mumbling children’s rhymes and watching ghosts shuttle through the walls. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t right to have a ghost walking around the house like that. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A rumor had been filtering through the streets for some weeks: a rumor that made some people laugh and others grow silent, as some people scoff at ghosts and others fear them. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

A faint clattering rises from the alley, and Etienne peers through the shutters of Marie-Laure’s bedroom, down six stories, and sees the ghost of Madame Manec standing there in the moonlight. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Ophie decided that maybe she wouldn’t worry about helping the ghosts dying over and over again in the dining room. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He could swear, as he drove down the tree-lined street in the late morning light, that he saw dozens and dozens of flickering ghosts—his grandparents and their parents and their parents—watching him, smiling. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

He looked like a ghost set against the darkening night. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Past the pigs, you’d come upon the ghost tree, bleached white with wind and age. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

But since that night, Ophie had learned how to tell the difference between a ghost and a living person. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“There’s a ghost that sits at the top of the tower stairs. You go all cold if you walk through him by accident.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

The crowding ghosts had, to be sure, finally frightened Ulysses, but Theseus, Hercules, Orpheus, Pollux, had apparently encountered no great difficulty on the way. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry looked over at the Slytherin table and saw a horrible ghost sitting there, with blank staring eyes, a gaunt face, and robes stained with silver blood. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Every time he tried to ask her about the incident on the Calle San Jose - those ghosts on the balcony, all staring at her, whispering accusations - Reyna shut him down. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Baby, I invented scrawny. Scrawny is the new sizzling hot. And I GOT the scrawny. Narcissus? He’s such a loser even the Underworld didn’t want him. He couldn’t get the ghost girls to date him.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their ghosts were rumored to walk the halls at night, bewailing their fate and complaining about the food in the Mess. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A British man began narrating, his voice melodramatic, like he was telling a ghost story that just might be true. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every time Percy slashed one of them down with his sword, the ghost re-formed immediately. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She’d back away, facing me, asking, “Any ghosts behind me, Ruth? Is it clear?” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She thought about the ghost at the theater; Penelope had most definitely seen him. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was in a hurry to get back to the light of day, away from the dead and their ghosts. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I’d tried it once when I was seven, and there was no ghost, just a lot of melted wax on the countertop. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, this ghost did not seem like a very nice person at all, and Ophie was getting awfully tired of dealing with rude people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And yet, standing there in dusty half-light in that dead house that seemed so alive with ghosts, I thought, maybe .. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Ophie slept terribly, her dreams plagued by ghosts walking around Pittsburgh wearing the skins of other people. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Because now there was a sadness in the room like a thick gray ghost at my shoulder. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Yeah. I actually talked to him on the phone. This guy here convinced me to explain to him why I ghosted.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

And he hurried up the steps as if the ghosts of the White Ladies were already after him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“If we have to bankroll our own death, I’m coming back as a ghost and suing the Town Gran,” Seven said. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Jane, too, was once locked up in a room with a ghost. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The thought of Hamlet, made desperate by his father’s ghost, passed over us as a hawk’s shadow flies darkly over an open field. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

But here was a ghost who had once been property, a man who had died peacefully in his sleep and instead of passing on had decided to wait for his wife. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Most days, Ophie tried to ignore the ghosts, because she didn’t know what else she was supposed to do. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Jim might as well have been a ghost in the house as far as I was concerned. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Another ghost of a memory appeared: A hot summer afternoon in the Great Wood. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

More important, Feral wasn’t afraid of her, which would have to be more fun than draping herself over a half-paralyzed ghost and telling him what to do every few seconds. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She stood by instead, like a hungry ghost. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

What was the polite way to address a ghost? A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Terrible ghosts. We must not stay here, Khaleesi, this is their place." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But that left nearly twenty other rooms for Ophie to explore, and the more she looked, the more ghosts she found. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I see her in my mind like she’s a ghost, and it comforts me. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lockhart was getting to his feet a little ways away, covered in slime and white as a ghost. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

“She needn’t have been afraid. Most ghosts are only nightmares. Somebody should have held her and wiggled her ears to wake her up.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts crowded so close that Will’s body and Lyra’s felt little jolts of cold along every nerve. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I had a ridiculous fancy that he must be with you, Mr. Pip, till I saw that you were quite unconscious of him, sitting behind you there like a ghost.” Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Not ghosts this time, Mr. Ng,” I answer, shy to be talking about ghosts in front of Ginia. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

There are ghosts in Winterfell, he thought, and I am one of them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then she straightens, and the ghost of him is gone. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The way she held her hand was like a nightmare, like a Halloween ghost, like someone under a witch’s spell in a fairy tale. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

‘I think we can reach Spain this time if we’re lucky. Just let me -’ The mob of ghosts vanished, like a mass of birthday candles blown out in a single breath. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Friedman looks so shocked to see Justyce standing on her doorstep, he peeks over his shoulder to make sure there’s not a ghost or something behind him. Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

“Thank heaven I’m not superstitious. I could hear ghosts walk if I’d let myself. I could—” The front doorbell rang. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They ran through the Spector Lagoon, where ghosts were yawning awake and chatting with one another. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His feet breached a crust of frost with every step, and the cloud of his breath accompanied him like a chummy ghost. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lyra was impatient, and said, “But Lord Faa, this ghost—I think it’s the ghost of one of the kids!” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

She looked around at her garden, and at the graceful arches of the gallery, through which the dining table could be seen, and the ghost, Ari-Eil, still standing rigid where Minya had left him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“In the future? But she’s dead—she can only be a ghost from the past.” Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

And it was true what I had said to Johnny Garcia—I was the ghost. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Off to his right, the ghost of his father seemed to be standing in the trees, grinning. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

He had become a ghost, a creature that could haunt my nights and see my every move, like the phantasms he told us about when we sat at his feet, listening to his stories. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

After raiding a museum full of Confederate ghosts, Leo didn’t think his day could get any worse. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Pretty pigbaby, pretty piglet,” she and the mother would croon, fooling the ghosts on the lookout for a new birth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie, of course, was only half listening, mostly doing what she did every day on the trolley: watching ghosts and the people they haunted. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The big mother knows all!” a ghost cried. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Twin ghosts now haunted the Big Houses, the fields, the masters, the overseers, the slave traders, the slave drivers. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

George handed the hairpin to Ron and, a moment later, Hedwig soared joyfully out of the window to glide alongside them like a ghost. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

If there was a ghost down here, he felt sure, it could be only a sad, pale creature, nothing to be frightened of. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The man moved, a series of skittering twitches like a ghost in a movie, his face inches from Finn’s. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

People easily understand that ‘primitives’ cement their social order by believing in ghosts and spirits, and gathering each full moon to dance together around the campfire. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that I couldn’t spend the rest of my life chasing his ghost, wishing for a life other than the one I was living.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He believed that the exterior world could be transferred to paper—not in the ghost shadings of black and white but in the colors the human eye perceives. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Three kids bolted, sure he was a ghost. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gasped as the ghost was instantly back at her side, leaning even closer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore’s silver hair was the only thing in the whole hall that shone as brightly as the ghosts. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

I feel like a weak, unsure ghost of her. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

I think of Hamlet, who disobeyed the command of his father’s ghost. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And Ophie quietly swore to herself that she would never make eye contact with the ghosts on the trolley again. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My aunt haunts me—her ghost drawn to me because now, after fifty years of neglect, I alone devote pages of paper to her, though not origamied into houses and clothes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

God, if any ghosts of Founding Fathers are hanging around the White House tonight, they must really be suffering. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Let us ask Potter how we would tell the difference between an Inferius and a ghost.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

She had to be responsible, but the first chance she’d gotten she’d run off to the attic to eat cookies and talk to a pretty ghost. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I suppose there’s always Moaning Myrtle,” he said gloomily, referring to the ghost who haunted the girls’ toilets on the second floor. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She pushed through the throng of ghosts and they were as solid as living bodies, but with none of the warmth and give. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I look at the girl in the window; her face is puffy and red, and her watery reflection looks like a ghost. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

We looked like pale ghosts except where rivulets of sweat had washed away the lime. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Nothing, Aunt Rose, I swear it. I just meant...like your husband? The ghost in the backyard? He was a good person, right?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Supposedly Diocletian’s scepter could summon the ghosts of the Roman legions, any of them who worshipped the old gods.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But if she had a ghost in her heart, she didn’t give out his name. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gaslights showed in the fog only as dull spots of light—like ghosts hovering. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

I copied down all the passages about ghosts I could find and spread them over the coffee table, sorted them, and read them each dozens of times. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It made her glad to get back to the world of ghosts, unicorns, and gods. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was as empty and as dead-looking as a ghost town. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

And out of it was coming a procession of ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Even though Aunt Rose had said that ghosts weren’t to be trusted, she was worried that the ghost wouldn’t leave her alone on the trolley anymore. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

A ghost wraps herself around me, strokes my hair, and puts me to sleep. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

My mother could contend against the hairy beasts whether flesh or ghost because she could eat them, and she could not-eat them on the days when good people fast. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ever since the night she saw her daddy back in Georgia, Ophie had seen ghosts everywhere. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I thought it was behind me, that what remained was only suffering’s ghost. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I took my hands off the controls and watched as all four ghosts converged on Pac-Man. game over flashed in the center of the maze. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

“It’s lucky for us you happened to die,” Minya said, redirecting herself at the ghost. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

There it is, his own ghost—tap, tap, tap. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

No one avoided turning the tap for fear of ghosts. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Sarai knew those vicious words had come not from old ghost women but her own innermost self, guilt-poisoned from four thousands nights of dark dreams. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In the ghost light he saw her bright hair, her firm-set mouth, her candid eyes; he felt the warmth of her breath; he caught the friendly scent of her flesh. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

How did the Spirit Bear move like a ghost through such tangled forest? Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

I knew that Babou was going to be one of those ghosts soon too. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

When Hutchison returned to camp he was on the verge of tears and looked like a ghost. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

All ghosts had an irresistible craving to drink blood. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

These were the kind of houses that might have treasures in the attic, or ghosts in the cellar. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

But that August we haunted the midway like ghosts—stopping in front of the Tilt-A-Whirl, then the fishbowl game, watching like we’d already seen everything there was to see but couldn’t quite pull ourselves away. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“The ghost of the boy’s father is protecting both of them.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I wondered if I were being haunted by ghosts. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first tale I heard about him when I arrived at the Great Place was that the reverend had chased away a dangerous ghost with only a Bible and a lantern as weapons. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico’s ghost hissed, “My lord, the soul exchange! Ask him about that!” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

‘Duluth!’ yelled a third, which momentarily stopped the conversation as the other ghosts gave him confused looks. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I mean, you can’t spend your days in the Main Administrative Office and then hope to scare someone with a story about a headless ghost. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Professor Binns, who taught it, was their only ghost teacher, and the most exciting thing that ever happened in his classes was his entering the room through the blackboard. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I have to follow behind her for a ways, not knowing whether I’m the ghost of her past, present, or future. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

And now that I’d been in the Labyrinth, I could understand why it had been so easy for the ghost of Minos to drive Chris mad. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He sat in the crypt, aching to be out in the summer’s twilight, under the ghost moon. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

‘Fortunately, this place is sacred to me. By clearing away those ghosts, you have purified it and given me a moment of clarity. I will be able to speak with you - if only briefly.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I rowed and the tide pulled and the ghosts—who could indeed travel over water-tugged my boat with all their strength. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, I can see he’s dwarfed by the largest ghost shrimp I’ve seen so far, approaching next to him. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

They might have been ghosts: both children felt the little dashes of cold they knew so well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You,” she said, desperate, “you flew at me before, when I tried to tell you something. What’s stopping you now? Go on, tear at me with your claws and make a ghost out of me!” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

But the hoots and hollers of the boys in the woods behind us rushed ahead of them like ghosts clearing the path before an army. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

The stalls were open and the toilets had no lids, by which we knew that ghosts have no sense of shame or privacy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Have you ever seen someone who seemed a ghost of the person you remembered? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cob and the others exchanged shaky smiles, like boys spooked by a ghost story. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“He either has a ghost or a terrible conscience and he doesn’t know which. Tell her about it, Henri.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a ghost diffusing through the veil of the world. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

May we not call them the ghosts of departed quantities? Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

They moved along the track, skirting the wretched shanties and the pools of sewage, and watching the never-ending stream of ghosts arriving and passing without hindrance into the town itself. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He slides a hand up Henry’s chest to the side of his jaw, ghosting over his cheek with one finger. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“The ghost I talked to explained how Hecate defeated Clytius in the first war. She used her torches to set his hair on fire. He burned to death. In other words, fire is his weakness.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Dany had no wish to reduce King's Landing to a blackened ruin full of unquiet ghosts. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Great Ellen, more than any other ghost, had shed all pretense of mortality. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Dr. Montague’s intentions with regard to Hill House derived from the methods of the intrepid nineteenth-century ghost hunters; he was going to go and live in Hill House and see what happened there. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Only one to go!” he calls, but it’s like a ghost whispering in my ear. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

As the houseguests packed and departed—many of them doing so that very night—Ophie, along with the ghosts of the house, listened to their whispers and murmurs. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His mother said that a ghost had entered him, but my mother said the baby looked pretty. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts muttered and complained, until the pater got them under control with a taxicab whistle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She had satisfied them for now, but ghosts always returned until their wrongs had been righted. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“No, it’s not blank. I drew a ghost in a blizzard.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The sun had set an hour ago, but the orchids glowed like ghosts in the moonlight. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

She is beautiful but unnerving to look at, like a ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“I am haunted by the ghost of my father, I think that should allow me to quote Hamlet as much as I please. You used to be quite fond of Shakespeare, Prospero.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

She then ignored the ghost on her chest and chanted her lessons for the next day’s classes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Later Yen taught us, ‘After life, the rational soul ascends the dragon; the sentient soul descends the dragon. So in the world there can be no ghosts. This thing must have been a Fox Spirit.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But then the ghost of me starts whispering again. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Alex is opening his mouth to retort when a royal attendant materializes at their table like a dense and dour-looking ghost in a bad hairpiece. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

But after another minute she felt a faint tugging in her bracelet, like a ghost pulling her forward. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was the promise that let him sleep at night, that drove him every day, that kept Jordie’s ghost at bay. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Harriet thought that the ghost of Nat Turner had joined the ghost of Denmark Vesey, the carpenter and free man. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course,” said Black, and the ghost of a grin flitted across his gaunt face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She fluttered briefly as her ghost shook loose, and torch ginger buds rained out of her long hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He had forged it for Lord Eddard's tomb, to keep his ghost at rest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Nestor’s Cave, the Laundromat ghost had called it. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Your grandfather never felt the need to explain. Maybe the ghosts were happy that one family had survived. Maybe they were enjoying the afterlife. They’re ghosts. Who can say?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

They had indeed entered the land of ghosts, and they had become ghosts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her own way, Hazel too was a ghost reborn. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I saw Claudius and Polonius steal like silent ghosts behind an arras. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Lee Scoresby’s ghost looked through and saw a wide, quiet prairie under a brilliant moon, so very like his own homeland that he thought he’d been blessed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The moonlight drained colors into ghosts of themselves. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

And fighting for control of the grove itself were a score or more Specters, being held back by a ragged band of ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

‘I seen a ghost,’ said one of the children—the girl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Well, he is not a ghost; yet every nerve I have is unstrung: for a moment I am beyond my own mastery. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everywhere I go, my sister’s ghost is hovering. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He is almost transparent, like a ghost, or a reflection in glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

One by one, two by two, in small clusters, my ghost crew roams. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

And Ophie had the feeling that a ghost who didn’t want to be found, wouldn’t. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I’m still trying to piece it all together when an unsettling feeling creeps up my neck, like the greedy touch of a ghost’s fingers. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

If Cook hadn’t spoken to the woman directly Ophie might have half thought the strange white woman was a ghost. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The nearest thing to it Harry had ever heard was the ghost orchestra at Nearly Headless Nick’s deathday party, who had all been playing the musical saw. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The ghost patted his arm, giving Harry the sudden, horrible feeling he’d just plunged it into a bucket of ice-cold water. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

The music fills the room, something haunting now, like a ghost that echoes and rattles in my bones. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She didn’t see the ghost of the young boy, at least, for which she was thankful. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

For a moment, every ghost in the citadel felt their tethers fall slack. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But maybe ghosts were just like the living and were down on their luck. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those she cannot manage to turn she covers with sheets so they sit like ghosts in empty rooms. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They were shades —the chattering ghosts Hazel had lived with for decades in the Fields of Asphodel. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And besides, what harm could it do, just telling the man what the ghost had told her? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And so, once Mrs. Caruthers had her lunch, Ophie returned the tray to the kitchen and then made her way quietly to the study, where the very busy ghost resided. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You have to understand that ghosts are not people,” she said, quiet and intense. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The crowd of ghosts jostled and shuffled aside to make room. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

He felt he had to take care of her: his father had been a ghost since his birth. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The ghosts who were going to fight pressed forward eagerly, and she felt Lee Scoresby close at her side. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

After their experience with the eidolons, she didn’t like the idea of approaching a ghost, especially one that changed people with bad news or prophecies. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Is that so? Well, did you know I am often envious of your bedazzled ghost clothing?” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Can it really be like Mama Ya-Ya said?—“Everybody in Louisiana knows there be spirits walking this earth. All kinds of ghosts you can’t see, not unless they want you to.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"You stop talking like that! We got enough trouble, Ralph, an' I've had as much as I can stand. If there is ghosts." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It was not fear of ghosts that made him glance about with distaste. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

"And when night falls, there are said to be ghosts, cold vengeful spirits of the north who hunger for southron blood." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She looks more like the ghost shrimp I saw once at the Albuquerque aquarium. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Oh, keep going,” whispered a ghost voice in her ear, “for the beldam is angry.” Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The ghosts wailed and trembled and looked at the ceiling, but Annabeth knew they didn’t see what she saw. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

If I was a ghost, I wouldn’t haunt these shabby little houses. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t need any of that,” the ghost said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ghost tunnel had never been used, Royal said, as far as anyone knew. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

If they were sucked into the center of the whirling wind-top there wasn’t a ghost of a chance. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if her path and Elena’s demands were now tied closely together, she wouldn’t become the King’s Champion just to serve some ghost’s agenda—an agenda that Elena had twice now failed to reveal. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Their eyes blank, their ghost bodies wander about. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Woodmen said that there was some new terror abroad, a ghost that drank blood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Every morning since I started my new school, Jermaine’s ghost waits for me on the school steps. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Kaz remembered the shape from the alley, the way it had appeared and disappeared like a ghost. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Sarah Winchester was famously convinced that spirits cursed her family and that if she kept building staircases that led to nothing, the confused ghosts wouldn't kill her. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

Unlike Bodega’s eyes, which were pools of ghosts and sadness, Nazario’s were black holes, nothing could escape them, not even light, as if he could read your mind. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

It was a welcome change from the chilliness of the attic, although Ophie was beginning to wonder if it was the weather or the many ghosts of Daffodil Manor that made the rooms so cold. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He took out the knife and looked into the eyes of his father’s ghost, who stood close by. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“You will not win, Boulder,” she spoke to the ghost. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Horatio’s eyes grew wide in wonder as he remarked, “Henbane! Hamlet told me his father’s ghost did name that killing poison poured into his ear!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“They stagger exactly like sleepwalkers,” said one sur- vivor; “like walking ghosts” said another. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I guess even Nora is haunted by the ghosts of middle school. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Lem crushed Nat’s hand and pounded his back and bellowed with cheerful profanity, “I knew there was one man in Salem who wouldn’t think I was a ghost.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The images were confusing at first, until she finally understood that she was experiencing the lives of each of the ghosts speaking to her. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One of Minya’s first commands to the ghosts in the aftermath of the Carnage had been to clean up all the blood. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The old men called this weather spirit summer, and said it meant the season was giving up its ghosts at last. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

“If you come running all together, you will probably be able to scare any ghost away.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hundreds, thousands of ghost boys standing, ever still, looking up, through the window into our souls. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She thought about most of the fears that Queenie had confessed to—ghosts, dark, getting smacked for naughtiness, the college porter. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Two of her roommates walked her to the ghost room. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She smiled slowly and walking through her husband as if he were a ghost shook hands with Tom, looking him flush in the eye. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

The guard with his shotgun didn’t alarm the boy half as much as his imaginary ghosts. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

She often walked there at night, the fairy cloak like a ghost around her shoulders, but she did not seek out the path to Rook Hill. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could see white ghosts moving in the night, and torches against the black. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Now, even on a Saturday night, it was a “ghost town,” as Margie put it. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

I feel the ghost of where his hand was, his fingers long and narrow. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her will summoned the ghosts, and his barred their way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lee’s ghost, seeing why, leapt for the dæmons and wrestled with the pale thing that was coming through the rock from behind them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“If they weren’t dangerous, then why . . . ?” I tried to understand, struggling not to let him see how seriously I was considering his ghost story. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

The hospital room around me disappears, and I am immersed in a field of mangled ghost code. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

“No. Not a ghost. She was solid. It was her. She’s dead all right, but it wasn’t any kind of a ghost. I touched her. She kissed me.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Balls of flashlight ghosts had flown all around the back- and front seats, all over our faces. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loved me, even after I became a ghost of my former self. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Sounds like a ghost shirt,” Sam said, a grim smile on his face. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She scares me because I think she’s one of my ghosts. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Rachel, with a ghost of the charm she must once have possessed, succeeded in drawing William, if not actually into the circle, at least to its warm circumference. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Bran’s ghost, he thought, but that was madness. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The service is good, and there’s plenty of hot and cold running ghosts. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

As the daylight faded, the ghosts started moving closer and in greater numbers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Or, there were ghosts, but Minya’s binding was too strict to allow them the choice they might or might not have made: to catch godspawn girls and keep them from falling into the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Finally, under the cover of darkness, the enemy suddenly disappeared, like ghosts. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Yep, if I believed in magic, in ghosts, then I think maybe I was rising on the shoulders of my dead grandmother and Eugene, my dad’s best friend. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

When I speak, their heads jerk up, faces blanching like they’ve been confronted with a ghost. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“It’s a telling me something else. In the next valley there’s a village by a lake where the folk are troubled by a ghost.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

I needed to get out of Bethlehem, out of my skin, my skull, and the ghost of my family. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had all happened in a blink, and all the while the ghosts were wrenching her out of the doorway, dragging her back inside. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Early morning was the only time I felt as if there were ghosts nearby, memories of the weeks of fear. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Along the benches, a dozen ghosts shimmered into existence—glowing purple men in Roman togas, like the Lares she’d seen at Camp Jupiter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Sigurd’s ghost leered at her from the back of her mind. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning, severely hungover, he was extremely agitated; before ascending the Icefall he confided to a friend that he’d seen ghosts in the night. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

What a white bloodless ghost of a woman! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The ghost of Malcolm X was in the coliseum. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Perhaps. Some of my ancestors have been heroes. Some have been villains. You saw the ghost with the gunshot wounds in the chest?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Had the ghost lost touch with the world around her? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Fresh rose cuttings littered the walkway, the remnants of the ghost’s nighttime gardening. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And the way you usually act, the things you would have normally done, are like these ghosts that everyone can see but pretends not to. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

People telephone the branch office to request an installation, or to complain about ghost signals, interference, starlings on the wires, and out goes Volkheimer. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The creature didn’t bother itself with ghosts but knocked Minya to the ground like a toy to a kitten, and pinned her there, one metal hoof pressing on her chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The shacks were made of plastic, tin and cardboard and stood near clumps of blue gum trees, whose branches screamed like ghosts in the icy Cape wind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Nico turned from the fire so the ghost couldn’t see him, but I could. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“You must go find the children. I don’t like the way some of the gentlemen are talking. Stop staring out the window like that, dear! Heavens, you look like you just saw a ghost!” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

I didn’t believe in ghosts or spirits or things that go bump in the night. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

“I demanded he join the Fifth Cohort!” the ghost said proudly. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They were both hideous waxy ghosts on butcher paper. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The ghost I was looking at wasn’t strong or talk And he wasn’t any older than I was. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He might have been Robert's ghost as he stood there, young and dark and handsome. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But tonight, as I lay in my bed with my mosquito net floating like a ghost around me, I did not hear any laughing. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He knew a few things about ghosts, too. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have a sudden vision of the Apple Lady, walking around the village like a ghost, never talking of looking anyone in the eye. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

She kept imagining faceless ghosts behind the door. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

With resolve, she made to leave, but ghosts blocked her way. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“She used to tell me stories about the ghosts of Venice.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Up out of the swirling, silvery mass rose a little old man revolving slowly in the Pensieve, silver as a ghost but much more solid, with a thatch of hair that completely covered his eyes. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

At first the plan was to tell each other ghost stories ’cause it was so dark and eerie walking the long stretches of abandoned beach. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It seemed to her that it did, and anyway, it felt like betrayal to give the others away, so she said, “The ghosts.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The wild had reclaimed the site, Jon had been told, but rangers claimed that the overgrown ruins were haunted by ghouls and demons and burning ghosts with an unhealthy taste for blood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Minya. Drag ghosts in here. Bring their hate into our home.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

That didn’t seem like something a ghost would put in front of his apartment. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

As I lay on my side, staring at a pool of white moonlight on the wooden floor, a gust of wind blew the curtains out, long and pale as ghosts. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

The ghosts of Daffodil Manor weren’t going anywhere, and neither was she as long as Mrs. Caruthers was taking her medicine. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I did not want to go where the ghosts took shapes nothing like our own. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There are such things as ghosts. People everywhere have always known that. And we believe in them every bit as much as Homer did. Only now, we call them by different names. Memory. The unconscious.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“If I was a ghost I’d want to stay in the places I knew, not wander along and get lost.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Grover Underwood and a team of satyrs danced around with their panpipes, playing harmonies so dissonant that the earthen-shelled ghosts cracked apart. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

"I thought the whole thing would be that way, but it's just confusing and pointless. The ghosts—if there are ghosts—don't even do anything. They just show up and stand around." We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I draw a ghost wandering through an airport because she doesn't know where to go. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I blame an awful lot of things on the ghost of Aunt Ahra because she died in our house when she was eighty-two years old. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

Halfway across the piazza, everything went wrong; but it had nothing to do with ghosts. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

But the last couple of shifts he’s been listless and unshaven, and tonight he looks like the ghost we all know him to be, with dark halfmoons hanging from his eyes. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts themselves listened as he spoke, though without much curiosity. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I know she wants to say, “Ask your ghosts, Lanesha. Ask them.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Ivy couldn’t even hear her own footsteps as she ghosted over the sidewalk. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Otto—a boy who’d faced monsters and ghosts, and who now lived in a frozen eternal day—understood there was Logan County strange, and then there was too strange. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

But I often heard stories of a ghost who tried to take children away, especially strong-willed little girls who were disobedient. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I got into the passenger seat, in her place, running my hand across the leather before I sat, as if I were brushing away her ghost. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

And then she said to the circling ghosts: “I will listen to you.” Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The night is dangerous, parents are required—tall ghosts in khakis and down jackets floating behind the children. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

The castle ghosts were there too, barely visible in the bright sunlight, discernible only when they moved, shimmering insubstantially on the gleaming air. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

My mind was full and crowded—falling sparrows, my brother’s ghost, Dante’s voice. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

As they walked along, the ghosts talked to them. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

One by one, the ghosts floated away through the opposite wall. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

This will be the wild black world at the bottom of the sea, a place meant only for monsters and ghosts. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The two friends slid between the ruined buildings, riding high and silent as if not to disturb the ghosts of the dead city. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

But other dangers were waiting in the forests that remained, and along the quiet, empty fields where the ghosts of trees seemed to whisper their sadness. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

She kept to her sleeping alcove, as though she were hiding from the ghost guards. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

In my mind, I see ghost outlines, shimmering towers touching the clouds. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

And so, if taking care of Daffodil Manor was Ophie’s job, maybe it was up to her to help the ghosts there to pass on? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I know this sounds odd, Dear Diary, so don’t tell anyone, but I’d love to see a ghost—just to know for sure they exist. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“I saw a ghost moving near that banyan tree yesterday evening, when I was cycling by.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

But no matter where Ophie looked in the attic, she did not see Clara, or any other ghosts for that matter. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“The maze is my property,” the ghost said, “not Daedalus’s! Those who intrude deserve madness.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She tossed and turned, dreaming about dragons and ghosts, about fire and water, about snakes and hidey-holes. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Haint blue is the color ghosts and spirits hate most,” Doc continued. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

How I had stolen from the cash register and bought candy for everybody I knew, not just brothers and sisters, but strangers too and ghost children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And every time, there was a laughing girl ghost who sat on his lap like she was his sweetheart. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The house was still filled with midnight and ghosts, but as they closed and locked the heavy kitchen door behind them they saw it was close upon dawn. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were bruises blooming, too, where the ghosts had gripped her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Every single harpy shrieked and jeered, and many of them flew up off the tree and straight at the ghosts, making them scatter in terror. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I could have kept windows shut tight so that his ghost couldn't get in and torn through all of my mother's things. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He was more handsome than any man she had ever seen, but like the other riders, he was pale as a ghost. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Before they were born, before they came into this world, the chimookoman must have starved as ghosts. They are infinitely hungry.” The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, ghosts and — most particularly — guests,” said Dumbledore, beaming around at the foreign students. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

But First Wife turned out to be a living ghost, no threat to Second Wife, who had her strong spirit intact. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She heard the ghost before she even entered. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"There's too much talk about ghosts. We ought to have left all this for daylight." Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Usually, the ghosts of the house remained in their own, separate spaces. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

When the ghost of one of Mrs. Caruthers’s sons finally appeared, in uniform with his hand tightly gripping a bottle, Ophie laid a hand on his arm, which was naught but chilly vapor. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

On a nearby porch, other ghosts snickered as Vitellius paced back and forth, tripping over his toga and hiking up his sword belt. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She studied the ghosts and noticed all of them wore some sort of badge on their toga—a raven, or a torch, or a bow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Minya gave the ghost’s invisible leash a tug that felled him to his knees. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

And maybe it was a ghost, maybe it was hungry, but if it was, the mare wasn’t troubled. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Justice, a voice said, a newer ghost in the house stretching phantom limbs and reaching out. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Maybe all she knew was ghosts, and could make no distinction. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Me and Sarah stare at the ghost boy. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

She'd had to keep them alive—four babies in her care, inside a crime scene of corpses and ghosts, and herself just a traumatized child. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She stood there, waiting for the ghost to say something, anything. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Around the courtyard, ghosts and ghouls rose to their feet and drew weapons. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ghost harrumphed and moved off through the crowd, where a few of the other household ghosts had joined the group, as well as some ghosts Ophie had never seen before. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“It’s not bad talking to ghosts. Just bad if you want a ‘more normal life’ in this here world.” Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

When I opened my eyes I could see nothing but blue ghosts dancing over my vision. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m very aware of our proximity to each other, as if I could feel the ghost of his presence against my skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

There was a time, not very long ago, in the desperately poor New York City neighborhoods of Brownsville and East New York, when the streets would turn into ghost towns at dusk. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though a ghost, will sadness make me older...and older? Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Just as Seven was beginning to worry Thorn wasn’t coming back, she emerged from the Spector Lagoon, with a stream of ghosts behind her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Okay. I need to go to bed now. Good night, ghost.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I walk up and down, but it’s like a ghost town. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Whenever there was a full moon, they could be seen gliding down the corridors like two ghosts floating through the pale light. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

In front of them, the legionnaire ghost vaporized. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

A chill blows through the room, like a ghost passing by. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A ghost of a smile appeared on her face, and Dorian looked down at the book. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Finally the ghost with the pope hat struck his shepherd’s crook against the floor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

At lunch, she told me stories about her family’s cruise to Newport, Rhode Island, and how she slept in a real lighthouse where they told scary ghost stories and everything. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

"When the gods are gone, the evil ghosts feast by night. Such places are best shunned. It is known." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Close to, he recognized her as a ghost he had passed several times in the corridor, but to whom he had never spoken. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The shark looked like a ghost with its white belly and broad fins stretched to the sky, reflecting the sunlight. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“What happens if no one helps the ghosts?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Since that was true, anything could be, and why not ghosts as well? Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I felt his laughing presence inside me, almost like a ghost, while I stood looking out. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tonight, he knew, was what old-timers called ghost time, with fog as immobile and dense as buttermilk. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The ghost of me is saying, Three thousand miles. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In its new camouflage netting, it glittered silver like an extremely flashy forty-foot-tall ghost. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The swarm of ghosts floated back into the lagoon, and Seven struggled to her feet. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

I do as Izzie asks, but it makes me even sadder to think I am now a ghost, an absent girl, nothing but a brown bag with a name on it. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

He picked up the nearest steak knife and stabbed it into the table, making the ghosts around him jump. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The stranger with arms hanging at its sides who stood beside the wall in the background of the photograph was a ghost. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Had I really picked up this ghost as I was traveling outside my body? Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Standing in the center of the clearing was a figure as white and shining as a ghost. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a moment his face, pale and watchful as a ghost’s, would be caught in the headlights and then, very gradually, it would slide back into the dark. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

That wasn’t what he was telling her at all; maybe the ghost was just repeating his wife’s name, Sing, and Pilate didn’t know it because she never knew her mother’s name. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother would look at my wild tangles and scold me: “Aii-ya, Ying-ying, you are like the lady ghosts at the bottom of the lake.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wispy clouds scurried across the sky like little ghosts. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sky outside was darker by then, with only a few pale green ghosts dancing against the stars. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Beyond the horror in the ghost room, she felt this release throughout the dormitory. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost of the tennis ball is coming to haunt the man. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Ophie didn’t even like lying to her mama about the ghosts; something like sneaking out was out of the question. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Fine. But if Pekka Rollins kills us all, I’m going to get Wylan’s ghost to teach my ghost how to play the flute just so that I can annoy the hell out of your ghost.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Turning white as ghosts, she and Monsieur Frick ran from the doorway of Hugo’s room. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

In this ghost’s reaction, they saw that all was well. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The procession of ghosts vanished around the corner. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

A frail old man entered the room, the ghost of a smile on his withered face. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

He had also been to her Underworld garden—a creepy place full of crystal trees and flowers that bloomed bloodred and ghost white. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

As if feeding on her very thoughts, the ghost spread itself over her arm. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It sounded like three or so uglies, talking in low tones as if still wary of the ghosts of the Rusty ruins. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

It was as if she had become a ghost, dead before her time. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

And then, so quietly that she has to lean forward in her chair to hear, Vivian says, “Yes, I do. I believe in ghosts.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

At this the ghost jumped, so that it nearly fell off its horse, and gave out a muffled baaa through its visor, like a sheep. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Doc saw us there in the front yard looking at him, he jumped like he’d seen a ghost from one of Gran’s stories. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

She took in the old ghost’s quiet ferocity and found that it was deeply familiar—a certain glow that in better times she occasionally found looking back at her from the mirror. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

When they finally arrived and fluttered back through the terrace door, she saw the ghosts standing guard and remembered with a start that she was a prisoner. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

"The trouble is: Are there ghosts, Piggy? Or beasts?" Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

“And my Story Box will aid you in the fight against this ghost and the Maafa? It will free my people?” Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

“Sometimes, when I’m near the jungle, I can hear my father’s voice. It’s like a ghost calling to me, blaming me...I’ve heard it for the last ten years.” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

‘One of the ghosts on the balcony was wearing conquistador armour,’ Nico recalled. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

For a brief second, every horror came back to her, and she truly was a wraith, a ghost taking flight from a body that had given her only pain. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The sight made Ophie’s palms slick with sweat, and she swallowed drily as she turned to look back to where the ghost had stood. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Through the crowd, I spot Gale looking back at me with a ghost of a smile. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

We hid directly under the windows, pressed against the baseboard until the ghost, calling us in the ghost language so that we’d almost answer to stop its voice, gave up. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she and David passed through the dark streets, the ghosts of the Rusties no longer seemed to threaten from the windows. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

This might well be an explanation of ghosts and such manifestations. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

But they’d always seemed like ghost stories and fairy tales, stories that could never come true. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

“As the sword was cutting me down,” said the ghost, “I thought this was the worst I would ever have to endure. But I was wrong. The worst is on the other side.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Except that the dragon in this case was a battalion of ghosts whom no sword could harm, and he didn’t have a sword anyway. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When I am very hot, I see ghosts and monsters coming to kill me. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind had picked up, and the smell of rain ghosted through the air like dinner cooking. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

So Chris sat quietly, his body at ease, and heard about ghosts and ghouls and purple waves, and smiled at his brother with pure delight. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No kidding. Did your ghost doll tell you we’d be here?” demanded the bald man. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Even in death, his hair swarmed with lice—or ghost lice. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, Lou is seeing “things that” appear to be ghosts. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Theseus was looking for the ghost, but apparently couldn’t see him. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He was not afraid of ghosts and White Ladies, like Basta. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

“It’s whatever you want. No limitations. If you’re into angels and halos and ghost dogs, then cool. If you wanna fly, you do you. If you wanna go back in time, knock yourself out.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Here we were on the very trail of a spy and Call was going to get upset by a ghost—a made-up ghost, one I had made up. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a brief second, I almost mistake him for the ghost of his father, an old lover who disappeared with the night’s shadows a long time ago. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The house filled with political propaganda and with the members of his party, who practically took it by storm, blending in with the hallway ghosts, the Rosicrucians, and the three Mora sisters. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their voices sounded faint and ghostly, as if dozens of ghosts floated over the rubble, crying in little, distant voices for help. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when Admetus cried out, “A ghost! Is it a trick—some mockery of the gods?” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the ghosts were pressing close, poor things, and the children especially couldn’t leave Lyra alone. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Here and there shone the pearly white figures of the school ghosts. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Over at the altar, the fiery ghost rose. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I fear not spirits, ghosts, of which I am one,—that my body might,—but I fear bodies, I tremble to meet them. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was as silent as a ghost and as quick as a flitting shadow. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Like a ghost heart—a heart you can see right through, right into some other world where everything you ever lost has gone to hide. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Hensleigh was not the only one in their circle captivated by spirits and ghosts. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

"Why not construct ghosts out of leftover gift wrap?" the book would suggest. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

“I didn’t mean...ghosts,” he said, stumbling on the word. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Lyra told her, and the ghosts pressed forward eagerly again. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She glared at the ghost who had just spoken. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

All I can think is how does he—who told him—I’ll kill them— “The ghosts of our misdeeds seek vengeance,” the Augur says. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Maybe it's all of this remembering or talking about books and paintings again or being with Mabel, but I can feel the ghost of me creeping back. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Ophie finally asked when the ghost did not seem inclined to leave without an answer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His shoulder seemed to ache, as if he had fallen on it, but he knew it was only the ghost of what the wolf was feeling. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The best time to talk to ghosts is just before the sun comes up. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Horatio may be right. The ghost may be a demon sent to plague your mind with grief,” I said, trying to reason with Hamlet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Our meals, our actions, were only a shadow of what had already happened there, a lagging ghost of where Mr. Pirzada really belonged. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The huts looked like ghosts in the cold light. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘The demigod ship sails around the Peloponnese. Already they have destroyed the ghosts at Ithaca and captured the goddess Nike in Olympia!’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Howard’s face turned pale as a ghost and his eyes flicked down at the ground. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

I fly straight through the floating isles like a ghost, angling up to go as high as I can until I can’t get any farther from land. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Hood’s smoke stayed where it was, then slowly, very slowly, like a huge ghost, the white cloud came drifting gracefully up the ridge, clinging to the trees, drifting and tearing. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost’s face distorted in a silent scream of agony, but his eyes looked bored, even a little annoyed, as if the scream was just an automatic reflex he couldn’t control. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The castle was completely empty; even the ghosts seemed to have joined the mass mourning in the Great Hall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

A wan reflection of myself, white wings, brown ponytail and all, ghosted over the landscape. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

I remember my first summer here in Würzburg, after that dreadful winter when I left the ghost of my mother behind in the burning city. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

With their hoods up and their purposeless milling, Lazlo thought they looked like a pack of ghosts on coffee break. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“The hearts you tarnish with miserable ghosts so that you can hold on to your hate?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I shiver, and keep glancing behind me into the shadows, as though my mother and father are trailing me like ghosts. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, I would see my home, but it turned out to be empty, a ghost house, with all the doors and windows open, but no one at all there. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost still wore a maid’s uniform, and her head tilted as she studied Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes, as she was cracking the spine of yet another dusty history, Ophie would catch movement out of the corner of her eye, and there would be the ghost boy standing in the doorway. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Miss Baker’s and Miss Inglis’s ghosts haunted the school, along with actual busts and portraits. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Frank was seeing a ghost that the Underworld kids couldn’t see, something was definitely wrong. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“I was going to be a baseball player,” says ghost boy. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

A movement caught my eye—a curtain pushed aside in an upstairs window, and his face looking out, pale in the dark frame like a ghost in a haunted house. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

As the world’s greatest scientist, I wasn’t afraid of ghosts. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

The ghosts that he and Petey had seen or imagined on their rides were sleeping, perhaps, and Finn had the graveyard to himself. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Like that old ghost in Godstow. I saw that when you didn’t.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

What ghosts sidle along the walls right now, trying to overhear? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

My shoulders slumped, and I felt an ache like a bruise where the ghost hand grabbed me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

He vomited for a few minutes, and wiping his mouth, he said, “Those were ghosts last night. I know it.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Through that circle she saw—no, not the children— it was a ghost! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

At one point the girls started for the attic but reconsidered after a discussion about the habits and customs of ghosts. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

This time, it didn’t seem nearly as rude as when the other ghosts had. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The earthen ghosts chose that moment to charge. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And he looks like he’s seen a ghost. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Calling infinitesimals “ghosts of departed quantities,” Berkeley showed how making these infinitesimals disappear with impunity can lead to a contradiction. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z

“Are you suggesting that I”—she cut herself off, glanced toward the ghosts, and finished in a whisper—“burn up Minya?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Carnage behind them, carnage ahead, and ghosts everywhere. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

When a stiff wind disarranges his lacquered locks, he looks panic-stricken, like a man who’s just seen his own ghost. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had at first been excited by Facebook, ghosts of old friends suddenly morphing to life with wives and husbands and children, and photos trailed by comments. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Rachel a ghost with long white hair; Adah a silent, staring ghost. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The solar system will then be filled with an eerie radiance, the ghost of the Sun, outward bound. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Always in the company of male guardians who stare us down as we pass, the women whisper like black ghosts through the crumbling streets, vanishing suddenly and silently into ruined buildings. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

A memory rose like a ghost between them, and Kaede could see it just as the Queen did: a birth. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Harry looked in the direction of Nick’s transparent, pointing finger and saw a tall ghost who caught sight of Harry looking at her, raised her eyebrows, and drifted away through a solid wall. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I want desperately to sleep, but the dead boy ghosts into my mind once more. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Only Missandei remained, a forlorn little ghost haunting the queen’s chambers at the apex of the pyramid. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I pulled out the broom and tore out a batch of straws and tossed them into the fire and watched them smoke, turn black, blaze, and finally become white wisps of ghosts that vanished. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I look toward the back of the audience, and the ghost of Mama is nowhere to be seen. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

And because your image is hazy through the glass, and you are on the other side of the water, you are the one who looks like a ghost. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Me and Jay followed Doc around the cabin like little ducks while he told us more ways to get rid of ghosts and monsters. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Something other than ghosts on which his mind can fix. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Now here he was, a ghost of a name, about to get married in England. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ghost stared at her for a moment. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Were the ghosts in Daffodil Manor getting stronger because there were more people living there now? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The living room sat empty, with a big ghost of furniture crowded in the middle, and whenever I passed by, I imagined the severed television huddled somewhere in the scrum. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Ghost! What, you are a baby after all! You are afraid of ghosts?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I don’t get very long to decide how I feel about being surrounded by ghosts because Elsie whoops and tugs me by the hand, behind the mass of people moving along the street. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Just like the night of the party, the ghost shrimp are gathered in their thin-skinned glory in the common area, Chancellor Nyla on a pedestal at the far end. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was bleeding again, and while Tialys flew fiercely at the ghosts to force them away, Salmakia helped Will tend to the wound. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I turn like one of my ghosts and run up the ladder. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Tina shrieks loud enough to curdle the blood of a ghost. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Every moth, every wingbeat carried the oppressive burden of the ghost army, and of vengeance, and the weight of another Carnage. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Oh, yes,” the ghost said, sounding quite pleased. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Its pernicious ghost—gray, furry and with unusually dense dorsal tufts—haunted every house that he ever lived in. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I headed back to my room, my dad was still on the couch, staring at the gray ghosts moving across the screen. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Determined to apply economic pressure peacefully, black protesters let the nearly empty buses rumble on by like green ghosts, ignoring the doors that snapped open invitingly at the corners, and devised their own transportation system. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

At the front of the pack was a large ghost who held his bearded head under his arm, from which position he was blowing the horn. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

"Blood of my blood," Jhogo said in Dothraki, "this is an evil place, a haunt of ghosts and maegi. See how it drinks the morning sun? Let us go before it drinks us as well." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever heard,” I asked, “have you ever heard that ghosts will take an animal form when they are angry?” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue girl’s ghost gathered itself and perched, bereft, upon the spearpoint-tip of the projecting finial, just an inch above her own still chest. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

‘Please! I -1 only meant -’ The ghost screamed as the dirt covered his body like a shell, then cracked apart, leaving nothing but a pile of dust. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The ghosts on the trolley cars had never been able to hurt the passengers, and there were far more people riding the trolleys of Pittsburgh than anywhere else. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"No more do I fear them," the student replied, though his face had gone white as Hamlet's ghost. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

The doors open, and the hold is buzzing with ghost shrimp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

It was as if the world was full of ghosts. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“But Communists don’t believe in ghosts,” Estha said, as though they were continuing a discourse investigating solutions to the ghost problem. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the same time, she looks like an in-your-face ghost or someone cloaked in a very obvious invisibility cloak. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

His face was as white as a ghost’s. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

They are not universal gods, but rather a particular deer, a particular tree, a particular stream, a particular ghost. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

How he had come into the hall so silently, the way he always had, as though he were already becoming a ghost. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

A smile ghosts across his lips before disappearing. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Louisiana caught up to Raymie and took her hand, and Raymie had the strange thought that holding on to Louisiana’s hand was like holding the paw of one of the ghost bunnies on her barrettes. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

And until she had a better idea of what Clara wanted she would act normal so that the ghost would not suspect that Ophie was on to her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Nor was he the angry loner who’d followed the ghost of Minos through the Labyrinth. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The only light now came from the silvery ghosts, who were drifting about talking seriously to the prefects, and the enchanted ceiling, which, like the sky outside, was scattered with stars. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

They kept moving us over the water, stealing us away from our ghosts and our ancestors, who cried salty rivers into the sand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Though it was hard to feel normal with a ghost glaring at you from the head of the table. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But then, Clara had apologized for being new at being a ghost. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

My mother and father were in the fields, so my sisters and I ran for the trees, only to watch this passing ghost steal one of our chickens. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

In the torchlight, his gray hair made him look like a ghost. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

If s like being in a room of ghosts. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose had said that ghosts were stuck, in a way. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was as startling a discovery as the sudden seeing of a ghost. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She would’ve curled up and cried until she became another ghost, melting into the Cocytus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The shadowy ghosts parted for her, scattering before the terrible aura of her shield. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

It seems like the perfect setup for a ghost, don't you think? The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Percy continued, “I know I’m new here. I know you guys don’t like to mention that massacre in the nineteen-eighties—” “He mentioned it!” one of the ghosts whimpered. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The men paid no more mind to me than if I had been a ghost, and when I followed them down the corridor, no one asked me what I was doing in this place. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Faris meets my eyes, a ghost of the big, joyful boy he had once been. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We have more ghosts than anything else. I guess nothing in China ever dies. It’s very crowded. Anyway, that’s the feeling I got when I was there.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Maybe 1 do think of her as a ghost, the ghost of a dead girl, a little girl who died when she was five. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing on the floor of this huge space were adults and children—ghost people—so many that Lyra couldn’t guess their number. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

To warn you of psychics and zombies and ghosts of your lost brother. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

One: The storm sirens in town went off, slicing through the quiet like an angry ghost. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They flew to me and wrapped their arms around me and cooled my face with their ghost tears. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stares at them, twin ghosts, and nervously pats her throat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Point is, even games have opinions. But I can’t even put on weight when I want to. The ghost is eating all the cookies.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

The ghost looked at Penelope and then at Ophie and moved away, leaving their view of the screen clear once more. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He was, she thought, like a cursed temple, still beautiful to look at—the shell of something sacred—but benighted within, and none but ghosts could ever cross the threshold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The ghosts were fascinated by the blood on Lyra’s forehead. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Do you ever see anything of the ghost of the Williams sisters,” Holmes wrote, “and do they trouble you much now?” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The adult ghosts hung back, listless or fearful, but the children all came thronging forward. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

In the huge Colosseum, with thousands of cheering ghosts, the god Bacchus staring down at him, and the two twelve-foot giants looming over him, Percy felt as small and insignificant as a bug. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Like...the pretty ghost ladies who serve Persephone are good. Exploding zombies are bad.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The roar of applause came from thousands of shimmering purple ghosts, the Lares of Rome brought back for an encore performance. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Scattered here and there, his houses stretched up beyond him like squat ghosts with hooded eyes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was a ghost tied to the ground, not a living soul. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then the other campers went off to their afternoon classes— gladiator fighting, Latin lessons, paintball with ghosts, eagle training, and a dozen other activities that sounded better than a suicide quest. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Morning ghosts, she had heard Old Nan call them once, spirits returning to their graves. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

“Oh! I saw a light, and I thought a ghost would come.” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Did the whiskey and beer and wine, did they make you do the bad things that are ghosts now?” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She used the bridge often, but she did not encounter those ghosts again. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

While they were talking together, another conversation had been taking place a little way off: the Chevalier Tialys was talking quietly with the ghosts of Lee Scoresby and John Parry. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“We have a mystery ghost,” I speak up, wanting to change the subject. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

“I am extremely busy. Explain this interruption,” the ghost said, speaking directly to Ophie. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

No one’s here to see me with Sandy—no one but myself and the ghosts. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

‘You need sleep, too. I’ll take first watch and cook some grub. Those ghosts shouldn’t be too dangerous now that the sun’s coming up.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

If the horror of Minya’s fresh-caught ghosts told them anything, it was that the people of Weep would do again what they had done before, and how could they hope to defend themselves? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She didn’t really believe in charms or fortune telling or ghosts. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Okay, ladies. Let’s find the ghost of the Battery.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The entire edge of the glacier peeled away, cascading into the void—carrying buildings, ghosts, and Percy Jackson over the edge. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

In the center of the track, a closer broke from the pack and rolled into Seabiscuit’s lead, a ghost from his past. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seeing this ghost I grieved, but held her off, through pang on pang of tears, till I should know the presence of Teiresias. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“No, I don’t think so. He just lived there. She even pointed out the tomb he lived in. So I suppose he was a ghost. Do you remember, love?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could help you,” the ghost continued. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She felt new to herself—not an obscene thing that made ghosts recoil, but a poem. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Totems still guarded the top of a hill, ghosts of an older civilization. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Was it the ship itself giving up the ghost? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost of a smile flitted over her lips. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Ophie did not know how to get the ghost to leave the girl, and clearly the realization about her murder had only made her stronger. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Ad aciemP The zombies responded, pushing through the earthen ghosts to form a battle line. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Eventually the boy made up his mind that even if it were a ghost. it would be the ghost of a bright, and bright were bound by their vow to help people in distress. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I think he keeps quiet because, like a ghost, he doesn’t want to be noticed. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

"I fear no ghosts. Dragons are more powerful than ghosts." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Hamlet stood there, conversing with the ghost of his father. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I gave the drum away to a little cousin, throwing the ghost cat into the bargain. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Drifting through the crowd were purple ghosts—Lares—in togas and legionnaire armor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I guess she was scared of the ghosts that were creeping all around the house and I couldn’t blame her. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile the suitors’ ghosts were called away by Hermes of Kyllene, bearing the golden wand with which he charms the eyes of men or wakens whom he wills. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

So Will opened the window wide and ran out at the head of the army of ghosts; and then began the strangest battle he could imagine. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She has a sheet slung over her decapitated neck to make her look like a ghost. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Their bulging muscles were no use against ghosts. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

But instead of our parents’ pods, the room’s back wall is a stack of beehive beds, each covered in a warming blanket for a thin-skinned ghost shrimp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A dozen, a score of the pallid malignities seemed to pour in toward the center of the grove, where John Parry’s ghost marshaled his companions to fight them off. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They all dropped their jaws and looked at me as though they had seen a ghost. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

I didn’t like the ghosts tone of voice. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The ghost would appear and stroke the cookies. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

And after he had said that, there were not even ghosts in that place. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

But sometimes the warning was not heeded, and when that happened the trolley car would add one more ghost to the horde that prowled the Steel City. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

So John Faa, Farder Coram, Mary, and Serafina went with them to the place where the land of the dead opened, and where the ghosts were coming out, still in their endless procession. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“But there’s nothing. The letters my parents sent through the lawyer got returned; they don’t have a working number. She’s a ghost.” Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The shadowy recesses of the strange burrow seemed full of whispering, malignant ghosts and he recognized the forgotten voices of rabbits done to death months since in the ditches of Efrafa. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts had no free will, but what about Feral and Ruby and Sparrow? Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The remaining five, however, the senior five, will be stalking in and out of the plot with considerable frequency, like so many Banquo’s ghosts. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

“We embraced, then conversed. He was no ghost.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Before Ophie could try another tactic, the ghost disappeared completely, ending the conversation. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Or a place where ghosts went to have a break. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

I slapped the out of order sign on the neighboring Galaga cabinet and looked at the start-up screen, which was listing off the game’s villainous ghosts: Inky, Blinky, Pinky, and Clyde. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

I realize ghost boys, thousands of ghost boys, are trying to change the world. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Once upon a time the world was so thick with ghosts, I could hardly breathe; I could hardly walk, limping my way around the White Ghosts and their cars. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put it down on paper and then the ghost does not ache so much. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost led Nico to another public square, anchored at one end by a large square church with whitewashed walls and limestone arches. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“She stole that dress from me,” said a woman next to Ophie, and she startled to recognize the ghost from the never-ending dinner party. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Momma said that ghosts couldn’t move over water. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stared at me the way he had when he thought I might be a ghost. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Good. We will have fun then. I am Colombian. I cannot resist a good ghost story.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My replies involved ghosts, witches eating people, and monsters swallowing parents alive. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the survivors have left, half ghost themselves. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

‘I suppose you don’t believe all that guff about souls and ghosts and everything, do you?’ I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

But she parted the liriope spikes with her hands, revealing the ghosts that edged the garden. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The coroner removed the bodies hours ago for autopsy, but Eduardo’s family still remains, unable to leave, as if waiting for his ghost to return to the place he was last alive. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to look confident, though the scowling purple ghosts and the demigod skeletons at her feet made her want to turtle in her T-shirt and scream. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“You get to see people every night. You get to live. The rest of us are just stuck in here with the ghosts.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

As I spoke I chanced to look to my right, and saying “ghost” saw one. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

She doubted the ghosts would wait while she whipped out Daedalus’s laptop and did a search. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Lord Lefford-made mock of ghosts at table, but always kept a candle burning by his bed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

One by one the harpies, their faces eager and hungry and suffused with the lust for misery, turned and flew back to the tree, and the ghosts drifted back as well. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The swarm of ghosts descended on Valley and Seven, and Seven couldn’t help but scream. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Why, my lord, you look as though you have been visited by a ghost!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

As the freezing water flowed around us we rubbed the dirt off our bodies and without dirt both of us looked white as ghosts with farmer’s tans on our face and neck and arms. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was now always “resting” and it was as if she had died and become a living ghost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Great trees passed by like ghosts, thrusting their twisted thirsty roots through the mist down into the water. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Which meant that they’d been out there long enough for the ghost to do whatever it was that they did to sweets. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The ghost bird twittered and the clock ticked. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

“My uncle's guilt is now plain. The ghost is an honest one!” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Every year, they go so long I swear I can see his ghost rise up from the dead and take his seat right there in the preacher’s pulpit. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Those days and nights at the motel, I thought I was afraid of his ghost, but I wasn't. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” said Sweetie Pie, “just like a ghost.” Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

At the garden balustrade in the citadel of the Mesarthim, with ghosts peering over their shoulders, the godspawn watched their death ride down to Weep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Richard caught the end of it—“But the man’s ghost came out and spoke to the vandals in Hausa and they left his house alone”—and he envied her belief in ghosts. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Just like the ghost shrimp in the tank, she’s both beautiful...and horrifying, her veins glowing red and blue under pale skin. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A weird sound, a wail, a ghost, high and thin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

A year ago, I might have written about something silly, like ghosts, which I don’t even believe in, and even if I did, ghosts would not be at the top of my list. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hour of the bat gave way to the hour of the eel, the hour of the eel to the hour of ghosts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If history had no ghosts, I wouldn’t be terrified of what might come next. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

There are no ghosts crowded in here with me, making me scribble things on toilet paper and eat them or trying to steal the air out of my lungs. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Twenty-two percent of the world’s population sees ghosts,” I tell him via the wall. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I whispered, “Okay. Now I am seeing ghosts.” 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

Such a tight, confining space, not expansive like the ghost world. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Ophie felt a brief thrill at the thought that Penelope might have the same ability she did—a new friend, and one to whom she might be able to talk to about ghosts. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Find me if you dare, king of ghosts.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It must have been that in the ghost fog that night he never saw the wall of water the Corona threw at him. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sprang at another ghost, which swung its heavy arm and bashed the greyhound in his face. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She didn’t mean seventh as in ghost, did she? The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And I’m looking for ghost girls at church while my hand falls off from writing so many letters. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

A high ringing sound somewhere had grown loud enough so that she heard it, and she understood that it had started humming at the edge of her brain before the ghost appeared. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had promised Clara sunshine, and she was one to keep a promise, even if the ghost was not around to appreciate it. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I can’t see them but I know the ghost boys are down below, roaming, wandering. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

Very late in the evening, Chandresh has a rather lengthy conversation with the ghost of an old acquaintance he knew only as Prospero the Enchanter. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Maybe there are ghosts here, the spirits of the First Men. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Bright shapes and colors flooded behind her eyelids, ghosts of Pet’s light. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Ophie hesitated, because she didn’t want to say anything the ghost didn’t want to hear. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

In the dim fight, the mostly empty room, the pressing silence ... he felt as if he were staring at the back of a ghost waiting to pronounce their doomed destiny. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Why do some places have lots of ghosts, and others don’t have any?” Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

I no longer had my sons, and Clara, with her habits of silence and distraction, seemed like a far-off ghost. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

She’s moaning now, like some ghost is trying to escape her from deep down inside. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I thought of the ghost of that long-dead child, watching us, its desiccated bones sunk deep into the ground below. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like a year-round Halloween store, with a few stray ghost decorations on the window and a rotting pumpkin by the entrance. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Was one of the ghosts in the house stealing her breath? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

"There," it said, "that is not the breath of a ghost. Tell me your sorrows." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

I am a punch line at school, a ghost at home. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

I won' dered who comforted her when she heard those bottles knocking together, those ghosts chattering about the things she had done wrong. Because of Winn-Dixie 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pictured her sister, Annie, standing at the kitchen window, the baby on her hip, the longing stealing over her face like a ghost hand, the muted cries later in the shower. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“Do not change the subject!” the ghost growled. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Your ghost friend, by the way, where is he?” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It was like I was already a ghost. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The heart of the citadel was empty of ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Down the town wharf they tell spooky stories about fishermen who fall from boats, but I always figured it was like ghost talk around a campfire. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

But, for the record: Twenty-two percent of the world’s population sees ghosts—that’s over one and a half billion people worldwide. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

And maybe it was because of this first act of violence at the crossroads of hopes and dreams that death lingered around that house like a baby ghost. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“There might have been another way. You made the choice. You chose nightmares. I was too young to know better. You used me like one of your ghosts.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

But who was the ghost going to tell? Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I turned very calmly to your mother and said, ‘Either that’s a ghost, or the government’s given us some bad information.’ Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The front door opened and a shapeless shadow filled the doorway like some kind of ghost. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, I bet….And where was the third ghost you saw?” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The ghost wagons are so named because those who disappear into them are never seen again. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Or suppose the humans simply cut their losses and abandoned Weep, leaving a ghost town for them to lord over. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“There’s nothing to be afraid of in the whole dormitory, including the ghost room. I checked there too. I went inside just now.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ghost wearing a ruff and tights had suddenly noticed the first years. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

"Baker boy, here's your choice. Come join the ghosts, or be one." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Mom’s already really pale, but she kind of looked like a ghost then. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

“I have my own ghosts. I don’t need yours,” the house sent back in noisy floorboards and squeaky door hinges. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She wanted to add that we know of, but she saw the fear pass through Aloe’s eyes, a ghost glimmering across a room, so she let her hands stop. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Standing in the doorway, as if summoned from his dreams, was a ghost. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She slashed her gladius through one earthen ghost and stabbed her dagger in another’s chest. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

White cloths covered all the statues, so it looked like a room filled with poorly dressed ghosts. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But she was thankful for stupid male ghosts. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

What was a bit more shocking was the ghost of a man seated behind the desk, deeply engrossed in some business only he could know. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The harpy was watching, the ghosts behind were crowding close. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I can have fun for just one night, can’t I? she thought, and vowed to ignore the ghosts that pressed in all around her out in the city. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

From far off across the great cavern, echoes answered, and his voice bounded from cliff to cliff, doubling and diminishing and causing those distant ghosts to pause in their endless procession and look up. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The way that Zu seemed to stroke her ghost hair made me think she hadn’t had much say, either. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“At least let me keep the toy,” the ghost said. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Go to the Denver Museum, you can see his ghost shirt hanging there. You can even count the holes in it from the bullets that killed him.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

But, judging from what Jason had said, those ruins hadn’t held any answers for him - just a bunch of ill-tempered ghouls and ghosts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“July First, the Kalends of July, sacred to Juno. That’s when Mother wants to destroy those stupid demigods and really rub it in Juno’s face. Besides, I’m not paying overtime for those gladiator ghosts!” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The ghost nodded at Ophie before floating back over to the man. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She has never not seemed strange to me, like a creature from a fairy tale, pale as a ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

When Uncle D came home from Vietnam, he became like a ghost rattling his chain and moaning in the night. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Blood flowed fast, and when a ghost grabbed for her wrist, the slickness made her hard to hold. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The ghosts formed ranks and encircled the crossroads. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I became the ghost Piper was so scared of. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ophie ran down the stairs quickly, and when she reached the bottom, she was surprised to see the old ghost from the study standing in the middle of the foyer. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Even the ghosts looked better—with fancier armor and shinier auras. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As I stood outside my parents’ bedroom a shadow fell across me and I jumped, as if I were already living in fear of the ghosts of Malcolm and Maud. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

“You can’t end it that way! Why were the ghosts dancing?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their plan involved sending a legion of ghosts from the five covens to break her out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His face was misty and indistinct, but Frank got the feeling the ghost was looking directly at him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The only sounds were inside their heads — the moaning and wailing of the ghosts of all the poor slobs who had ever blundered onto Finsterwald’s property. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I rubbed the ache in my arm where one of the ghost pins had gone through me. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

“The ghost. A big black ghost floating and rattling right towards that man. The fella’s backing up, backing up. Then Uncle Louver hears one of his traps snap.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

From the moment she learned Sarai had fallen, she had stretched her senses to their limits, waiting, hardly breathing, alert to the telltale skim of passing ghosts. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Bathroom paper hangs like ghosts from our willow. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The ghost of a girl had risen out of the toilet in a cubicle behind them and was now floating in midair, staring at them through thick, white, round glasses. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

“You might as well thank the shovels,” the ghost complained. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Because the ghosts here have unfinished business with the living,” Colin said. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Most of the angels had walked around like ghosts the whole time, shocked to their core at what Hibiscus had done. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The ghost told the Buendía family that their worst fears were right: They were doomed to repeat the same mistakes. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It was true then—what Granma had said: that the Rommely women had the gift of seeing the ghosts of their beloved dead. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Drinking from the Phlegethon was like gulping down a ghost chili smoothie. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

"Because looks to me like you seen a ghost. You feel sick?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunt Rose had said that ghosts stuck around because they wanted something; maybe if Ophie helped them get what they needed, they could help her find Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Appearing here like some ghost—I nearly didn’t recognize you in that hat.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have stacks of Bonnie’s books on ghost hunters, psychics, and dangerous angels. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Theon wondered if he would ever see the Drowned God’s watery halls, or if his ghost would linger here at Winterfell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Most ghosts were slightly translucent, and if she looked hard enough she could see right through them. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The shapes of people and objects burned themselves into my retinas and stayed there, floating around behind my eyelids like hungry ghosts. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, he was invisible, without body, without structure, a ghost passing transparently through the hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, as though in inverse ratio to the vanishing voice, the invoked ghost of the man whom she could neither forgive nor revenge herself upon began to assume a quality almost of solidity, permanence. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a ghost town on the weekend, with only a few cars and the occasional passersby. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

“Horatio, you know his mind, if any man does. What of this ghost? Do you believe it?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Here he was walking around in the middle of the twentieth century trying to explain what a ghost had done. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghosts walked on steadily, and the road ran straight ahead across a landscape that was almost featureless. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

When I am here, though, I feel like a ghost. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Such as the young female ghost sitting next to Miss Alice, casting the old woman baleful looks. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But she learned the limits of geographic distance; she carried with her the ghosts of Danny’s abuse. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

He scratched his head, and ghost lice crept over his fingers. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I have found your missing ghost,” he sent to the attic in a sigh of settling timbers. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

That the woman back at the prison were a ghost, and the real Mama were here in the flesh. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Even though it was cold, I could still smell the field dust, the ghosts of corn and pumpkins. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Minya marshaled a dozen ghosts at all times, even in her sleep. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For our very food we had to traffic with the Grocery Ghosts, the supermarket aisles full of ghost customers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was strange to see the ghost standing there in the garden. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Then Will felt a sudden movement among the ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“I know. This place is like a ghost town.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

But a good number of ghosts wondered if Ophie could end their suffering. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

But, in truth, the monster managed only the merest tiny little cough of smoke before turning over on its side and giving up the ghost. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Improve that voice,” she had instructed my mother, “or else you’ll never marry her off. Even the fool half ghosts won’t have her.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Skimming down closer, they found themselves ignored, for the first time, because something more interesting was gripping the minds of all the ghosts. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

They cluttered his dreams like the ghosts of Asphodel - an aimless, sorrowful mob pleading for attention. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was in the middle of the room with a hunting knife, practicing bladecraft against the empty air, as if battling ghosts. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

But remembering that place also made her think about her last night in Georgia, the smell of smoke as their house burned and the sad-eyed ghost of her father. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“You don’t see the way she looks at me sometimes. Or how Lily stares at me like I really am a ghost.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

For all they could ascertain, the bandits had turned into ghosts and melted through the upstairs walls; they had simply evaporated. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I preferred the chores that took me out of the kitchen, for it was there the bees tricked me into seeing Ruth’s ghost playing on the floor, churning butter, or counting out kernels of com. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wondered how many of the ghosts in Minya’s army had been used that way by the gods. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Only wisps of greyish-blue smoke floated like ghosts into the hot air. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Other people came out to hug him, to rub his body in disbelief as though the sand-pouring had still not proved to them that he was not a ghost. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Everyone stayed pretty quiet; the echoes of all that had just happened lingered like angry ghosts. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

For l am a ghost, a mere reminder of memory's bliss. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

When my mother went doctoring in the villages, the ghosts, the were-people, the apes dropped out of trees. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thinking about Grandma’s and Mom’s ghosts uniting against me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"The Red Keep has ways known only to ghosts and spiders." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Even though I expect to see her as a ghost, I know I’ll still miss the flesh and blood Mama Ya-Ya. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once I’d found the manuscript, I realized I not only had the perfect prize in hand, but I could make amends to the ghost of Poe at the same time.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

I learn more than I would ever like to learn about ghosts and spirits and demons. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Even after the two owls alighted, even after he watched them disappear like feathered ghosts into the ground, Officer Delinko continued moving away, backing up step by step until... Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile Professor Binns, the ghost who taught History of Magic, had them writing weekly essays on the goblin rebellions of the eighteenth century. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The girl never did see the ghost but she was fond of Henri and it was five months before the cramped cabin and the lack of a toilet drove her out. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ghost stayed in the garden because every single one of the plants had been seeded with love. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Clearly not all ghosts were angry and vengeful, and Ophie couldn’t imagine it was their fault that they lingered. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Southampton’s barrage balloons floated gleaming in the moonlight like the ghosts of elephants and hippos. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He forced his way back through the tide of students, finally reaching the bottom of the stairs, where Nearly Headless Nick, ghost of Gryffindor Tower, stood waiting for him. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Harry saw the ghost of the Fat Friar waving merrily at her. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She was staring up into the branches with her mouth wide open and her eyes bulging as though she had seen a ghost. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

It was eerie, resigned, the voice of a ghost. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He had grabbed at the ghost of a necklace, the ghost of some trinket or thread. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

For Ophie, who could now clearly see the ghost lurking beneath the skin of the girl, all of this was like reading a tragic pulp romance—just the kind she and Clara loved. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

He exhaled, and in the stream of smoke, he thought he saw the thin ghost of his father. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

She stared at the doorframe looking more like she’d just seen a ghost. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

As Percy’s friends disembarked from the ship, the crowd of ghosts shimmered and disappeared. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Suddenly it would occur to me I hadn’t memorized which ghosts were on my team and which were on the other. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the woman simply adjusted her fancy hat and ignored Ophie, as though Ophie were the ghost and not the other way around. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It is a serious ghost, not at all playful. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I slipped outside and saw how still Montego Drive looked—quiet as a ghost town, the air hushed and peaceful, the only sound the pulsing rhythm of Mrs. Cantrell's sprinklers. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Kate was a sick ghost, crooked and in some way horrible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She drifted around the kitchen like a ghost, picking things up, putting things away, without ever getting in the way. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

“The American twins who routed the fine old English ghost,” Theodora said. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

That when one thing went away, just the pale ghost of it remained. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

After a moment, the ghost man turned toward them and half walked, half floated toward the porch, stopping suddenly at the edge. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“I’ve never in my life even caught the smell of a ghost. Let’s go back up and see if he comes again.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Shrouded Lord is just a legend, he told himself, no more real than the ghost of Lann the Clever that some claim haunts easterly Rock. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

With every hour that passed, Philadelphia shed the appearance of a ghost city and looked more and more like the capital of the United States. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he turned to head downstairs, Jam and Pet followed, moving through the house like ghosts. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Each name summons an image in my head—a face, a voice, a form—until it feels as if my fallen comrades are rising up around me, a phalanx of ghosts. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

“Her ghost is still here, for sure,’’ he kept saying. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The ghost also claimed that Hermes had once hidden the stolen cattle of Apollo in that cave. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Like entering a ghost town, images of Keav telling Pa she will survive, Kim’s swollen cheeks, my hand reaching into the rice container, earthworms writhing in a bowl float before my eyes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hatchet wavered in the air, in a tug-of-war with a ghost, but the girl did not falter. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“Well, then, they all die,” Otis said, “and we start the destruction of Rome. Just like Mother wants. It’ll be perfect. The crowd will love it. Roman ghosts adore this sort of thing.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I quickly made my way to the plants, slipping through the crowd like a ghost, like I didn’t exist at all. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

But is it not also thus: the living man, black and desperate to run, cursed by his connection to the white, devouring ghost? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Next to the Jordan women haunting me day and night, the dead men felt like friendly ghosts. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

“Does the request of a ghost overrule the plea of a wife? How can your vow of vengeance usurp our marriage vows?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That’s what the counselor at school said anyway about Grandma’s and Mom’s ghosts, which was pretty astute considering I hardly told her anything. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

But the hand of the professional decorator had exorcised whatever ghosts of the French bourgeoisie might still haunt the thick brick walls of the building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z