| 单词 | ghostlike |
| 例句 | In my mind, a train of ghostlike figures flitted in the corridors of Elsinore, followed by the figure of Claudius, cruelly bent upon his evil course. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z A child with no descent line would not soften her life but only trail after her, ghostlike, begging her to give it purpose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was the moon that allowed me to make out a sign hanging over the door, which bore an image of a white stag, ghostlike in the faint light. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Then, as suddenly as it had appeared, the Spirit Bear swung its massive head around and ambled away, vanishing ghostlike into the trees. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The stage has no curtains, but the ropes that used to open them still hang from their pulleys, swaying and ghostlike in the middle of the stage. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The absence of the Owens, the pale ghostlike Mrs. Rogers. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Something in his voice sounds profoundly sad, but Bailey is still distracted by his ghostlike appearance. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She left her room only at night when everyone was asleep, and then she drifted ghostlike through the house to empty her slop jar out the back door and floated back silently to her room. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Edwin and Garvey looked up at a ghostlike figure moving along the far shoreline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Obie had nodded, his face pale and ghostlike in the floodlights. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Danny’s brother, Levi, was forever poking at his food when he sat at the kitchen table, or walking ghostlike around the house, picking his nose. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A white blur was standing by the door, silent, ghostlike. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He led a ghostlike existence between the tiny, dark shop and an even tinier back kitchen where he prepared his meals and which contained, among other things, an unbelievably ancient gramophone with an enormous horn. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The pressure of Styx’s hand in mine still hovered there, ghostlike. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z His once-white alb, which covered him neck to foot, seemed ghostlike. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Cloud doesn't say a thing, just floats by, ghostlike. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z A bright full moon drifted ghostlike among the broken clouds. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Even though the voice was familiar, it sounded ghostlike and strange to Robin as it came out of the fog. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z More riders emerged out of the dusk, ghostlike, until they had surrounded the camp. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z No ghostlike shapes appeared; the peace was undisturbed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z He knew it was important that he make himself nearly ghostlike when lying down. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust motes swam ghostlike in the empty room. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Hazel might have been the one who came back from the dead, but Nico was way more ghostlike. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “It accumulated a lot of noise, and in that noise I was starting to hear ghostlike forms emerge,” he said, so “the landscape could change in the music through being repeated over and over again.” Terry Riley’s Avant-Garde Sounds Are Still Casting Spells 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z In the drama “While I Was Waiting,” about the destruction of Damascus during Syria’s civil war, the political was never absent but rather hovered ghostlike around a domestic story. Hard Truths or Easy Targets? Confronting the Summer of Trump Onstage 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Marvell is a ghostlike presence in the poem, tasked with writing his companions' way in and out of the tsar's distant, frozen embassy. Muscovy by Matthew Francis – review 2013-05-10T15:59:39Z Later, he confronts a gallery of ghostlike statues worthy of a horror movie. Two plays in contrast: a misogynist Don Juan and a feminist Greek hero 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z The teenagers profiled by Wides-Muñoz refused to accept their parents’ ghostlike status, and instead evolved into some of the most politically engaged student leaders in the nation. Meet the Dreamers Who Walked 1,500 Miles to Stay in America 2018-04-04T04:00:00Z He would recur, ghostlike, in poem after poem. Ruth Stone, award-winning poet, dies in Vt. at 96 2011-11-24T22:01:04Z “By hovering over the park in a horizontal band, Fata Morgana becomes a ghostlike, sculptural, luminous mirage that both distorts the landscape and radiates golden light.” Teresita Fernández’s New Installation the Largest to Date in Manhattan’s Madison Square Park 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z There are stops and starts; she arches her back, allowing the fine muscles of her shoulders to glimmer, nearly ghostlike, in Kate Ashton’s lighting. Dance Review: ?Heist Project,? by Belinda McGuire, at Joyce SoHo - Review 2011-12-04T23:14:42Z Gordon also likes a certain ghostlike quality and hence he peppers his collection with lots of transparent garments, as in a sheer black lace blouse, with long sleeves that travel down way past the fingers. Black, white and printed all over at Fashion Week 2012-09-10T22:01:15Z After three decades, the life I knew with my dad feels ghostlike — a forgotten place. I lost my dad in Nomadland 2021-06-19T04:00:00Z The fabric pieces “have a ghostlike quality,” he said. For This Korean Artist, Memories Are a Medium 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z “The painting was so black, so somber and a little nightmarish, with dark clouds and a ghostlike cathedral, I never considered it as important,” Lady Hambleden said in a phone interview. With Misattributed Constable Masterpiece, a Rare Look Into the Imprecise World of Art Identification 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z Most of them, however, have a ghostlike semblance of humor. Review: ‘Crisis in Six Scenes,’ a Mere Ghost of Woody Allen Past 2016-09-29T04:00:00Z The picture is also in abraded condition, giving the image a ghostlike quality. Contemporary Art Sales: Do I Hear $100 Million? 2017-11-11T05:00:00Z Faces take on the aspect of carnival masks or ghostlike figures emerge out of dark trees. Peter Doig: the art of the foreign 2013-07-27T21:00:01Z “Burn off every trace, I wanna hover with no shape,” he sings on “Wreath,” a euphoric track in which he imagines himself in a ghostlike position, “needless, free,” and “moving just beyond the frame.” Perfume Genius’s New Album, “No Shape,” Is Full of Sunlight 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z As we sit at home with the devices that promised us limitless possibilities in our hands, “Host” identifies the uncomfortable in-between state we exist in, operating ghostlike. ‘Host’ Review: A Zoom Séance Channels Spirits and Melancholy 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z “I treated it like I do any other painting or sculpture, and I also wanted it to be creepy and ghostlike,” Tran said. Pumpkins as art: Seattle artists put their own spin on jack-o’-lanterns 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z The Lachrima, for example, is a ghostlike being that haunts people with its cries. The 5 Best Books for Your Kids This Summer (According to Other Kids) 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z “Meta-puzzles,” like the doozy David Kwong reveals at the end of “Inside the Box,” are those that arise, ghostlike, from the corpse of ordinary ones. Review: What’s ‘Inside the Box’? A Rewarding (Rewording) Time 2020-10-14T04:00:00Z Lightning curls into balls that pass ghostlike through windows and explode. He saw the scientific promise in the paranormal, but now his legacy could be lost 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z “Ervil was the monster of my childhood, this ghostlike, dark figure,” she says. “Polygamy stunts a woman’s mind”: “The Sound of Gravel” author Ruth Wariner on her fundamentalist Mormon childhood, becoming a feminist and life after leaving the church 2016-01-03T05:00:00Z Race, after all, is ghostlike: a dubious entity invested with immense power by believers. ‘Loving Day,’ by Mat Johnson 2015-06-01T04:00:00Z It was a horrible nexus of dashed hopes, with bulletin boards filled with faces of the missing and ghostlike camp victims wandering around in striped pajamas. T Magazine: Hostel Takeover 2011-03-21T19:16:12Z The groundhog, for example, is turned into a character — an actor in a full-body suit sometimes passes ghostlike across the stage. Can cast injury derail 'Groundhog Day'? How the musical has overcome its obstacles (again and again) 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z As she starts to paint, she conjures up a ghostlike Tanya who is reunited at last with her mother. Review: In Robert Lepage’s ‘Kanata,’ the Director, Too, Plays the Victim 2018-12-17T05:00:00Z I was peering at these ghostlike images thinking, what does that mean? Decrypting Kubrick: Toronto film decodes 'The Shining' 2012-09-07T18:08:56Z In a luscious black-on-black painting from 1978 he simply reverses a quad of his famous images of Marilyn Monroe, creating ghostlike negatives. Art Review: ?Andy Warhol, The Last Decade? at Brooklyn Museum 2010-06-17T21:24:00Z In the middle behind the altar rises the third, “The Mystery of Faith,” a powerful portrayal of Jesus on the cross painted in 1977, with a lustrous Jesus rising almost ghostlike behind. Following a trail of frescoes in the mountains of North Carolina 2021-05-06T04:00:00Z Two hams hung ghostlike amid the barrels, soaking up the angel’s share in dim amber light, an experiment to see if the meat picked up the bourbon essence. Exploring Kentucky Bourbon at Its Source 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z Like a horizontal band, she added, the site-specific project “becomes a ghostlike installation that both alters the landscape and radiates golden light.” The Glow Coming to Madison Square 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z The ghostlike human presence is Strachan’s memorial to a Buddhist victim of China’s occupation of Tibet, and haunting as it is, it is the exhibition image which lodges the longest in memory. Artist Tavares Strachan’s show at Frye packed with subversive drama 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z Because no bridges connect Cape Lookout to the mainland, the human element remains minimal and somewhat ghostlike. Discover Cape Lookout 2011-06-29T13:20:07.060Z The cast performs in English, with Spanish and Catalan supertitles, alongside the audience members, who sit in small cubes and become ghostlike witnesses sharing living quarters with the Goodman family. An Immersive ‘Next to Normal’ Debuts in Barcelona 2022-07-20T04:00:00Z Again, we’re wondering what this is, as the sound design is a little off and has this ghostlike quality. ‘Sharp Objects’: Jean-Marc Vallée on the Series Premiere and Underdog Storytelling 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z This ghostlike quality suits the themes of Ghajar’s collage paintings, whose titles often refer to violence and oppression. In the galleries: Watercolors reveal a forceful vision at Touchstone 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z I don’t know any other orchestra that could make Mahler’s massive, eccentric Seventh Symphony levitate like this, dancing ghostlike in midair for well over an hour. Review: The Berlin Philharmonic Gives a Master Class at Carnegie 2022-11-13T05:00:00Z The lengthy middle “ghostlike” movement emerged with careful finesse, and the finale was an explosion of energy. Premiere of ‘Inland Seas’ generates buzz at Seattle Chamber Music Society’s summer festival 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z Although the artist died in 1997, his studio and living quarters here on Long Island have been so well preserved by the family that his presence hovers ghostlike in the building he designed. The Afterlife of Willem de Kooning 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Yet it was she who slept easily and I who heard ghostlike sounds all night: the hotel creaked and cranked and at times, under the influence of fierce winds, whined and wailed. Exploring Norway’s Fjords by Car and Boat 2012-06-29T16:47:27Z Now much of the ghostlike alleyway is boarded up. Itaewon crush: Survivors are still tormented a year on 2023-10-25T04:00:00Z Today predictions for new ghostlike particles are almost a dime a dozen, but in the early part of the last century, introducing potentially unobservable particles simply wasn’t done. The Most Surprising Discoveries in Physics 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z From ghostlike particles, astrophysicists have pieced together a new map of the galaxy we live in. Neutrinos Build a Ghostly Map of the Milky Way 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z Strahan also said the excess water vapor could enhance the formation of special noctilucent clouds, which appear as shimmering, ghostlike wisps in the night sky. Tonga volcano blasted unprecedented amount of water into atmosphere 2022-08-05T04:00:00Z Soto seemed like a phantom every time he stepped to the plate, getting more ghostlike every passing day. Perspective | The Juan Soto trade ends an era. A new one will start sooner than you think. 2022-08-02T04:00:00Z This week, sky watchers in the upper United States, Canada and Europe have spotted a flurry of shimmering, ghostlike wisps in the night sky. Rare clouds that glow in the dark are the most vibrant in 15 years 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Foxes pause ghostlike on the permafrost.With one quadrate eye, the vault reflects a frigid blue sea. Poem: ‘Vaulted Seeds,’ after the Svalbard Global Seed Vault 2022-06-14T04:00:00Z Caryn Pfeifer kept her awkward vigil inside the firehouse until her husband finally arrived, exhausted and ghostlike, covered from helmet to boots in dust and ash from the day’s work. In the shadow of the towers: Five lives and a world transformed Despite Seif’s ghostlike status, his presidential aspirations are being taken very seriously. Qaddafi’s Son Is Alive. And He Wants to Take Libya Back. 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Roads all but empty, with buses that passed ghostlike, carrying few — if any — passengers. This Independence Day, many around Seattle celebrate freedom from isolation 2021-07-04T04:00:00Z “The streets are hushed, ghostlike, my sister says,” she wrote in a text message. ‘Every Time I’m Calling, Someone Has Died’: The Anguish of India’s Diaspora 2021-05-01T04:00:00Z And in Linz, Austria, a lone, ghostlike fan wore a sheet and stood amid the empty seats. AP PHOTOS: Revisiting a world on the precipice, a year ago 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Then a detector weighing tons was put in the path of the beam, sufficiently massive to ensure that even the stealthy, ghostlike neutrinos would hit something, provided enough of them were aimed at it. Jack Steinberger, Nobel laureate in physics, dies at 99 2020-12-16T05:00:00Z Glenn’s wife, Annie, a fixture of his life so consistent that they almost operated as a single individual, is a ghostlike figure in this book whom we never get to know. Review | Another look at John Glenn through a heroic lens 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z As Newsom toured a ghostlike landscape destroyed by flames Friday, he had called out the “ideological BS” of those who deny the danger. Donald Trump heading to California for wildfires briefing as death toll rises – US politics live 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z As Newsom toured a ghostlike landscape destroyed by flames Friday, he called out the “ideological BS” of those who deny the danger. Fires raise fight over climate change before Trump’s visit 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Artists tease ghostlike figures from their writhing shapes. The Past and the Future of the Earth’s Oldest Trees 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z A ghostlike crime fighter faces a villain known as the Octopus, whose aim is to destroy Central City while searching for the secret to immortality. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 20, 2019 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z Rising over the mantle of ghostlike smoke bushes that carpeted the ground to the treeless horizon, the plane traced a route over the landscape, its bombardier dropping 50 poisoned sausages every square kilometer. Australia Is Deadly Serious About Killing Millions of Cats 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z On a wall nearby, he had hung a painting he’d completed many years ago, a kind of talisman, which incorporates a ghostlike portrait of Kafka and the text of “In the Penal Colony.” An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z One approach, some astrophysicists suggest, is to add more species of lightweight subatomic particles, such as the ghostlike neutrinos, to the early universe. Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z He used double exposure — a novel technique for Hollywood movies — to simulate Kelly dancing with a ghostlike figure of himself on a lonely street block. Stanley Donen, director who filmed Gene Kelly singing in the rain, dies at 94 2019-02-23T05:00:00Z He carried an AK-47 assault rifle on patrols and fired at ghostlike insurgents attacking coalition troops in the Korengal, a valley that rips through the Hindu Kush like a viper in tall grass. Former interpreters for U.S. troops wait out the State Department — and the Taliban — as visas decline 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z A shattered night club and a vacant children’s theme park are ghostlike reminders of generations past. Civil war leaves Yemen’s port city of Aden a bombed-out husk 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z Steward sees the piece as “an anti-monument,” both literally — because it’s a carving in relief overlaid by a ghostlike image — and figuratively, because it presents complications rather than just honoring a man. While others tear down monuments, some universities are building new ones 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z There is contention surrounding the condition of the painting, where restoration involved rigorous cleaning and left the piece with a ghostlike patina. Leonardo da Vinci masterpiece goes on sale – as contemporary art 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z “Despite the vigilance of Capt. Schneider and his officers of the Seventh Precinct, they continue night after night their weird and ghostlike tricks,” the reporter wrote. Is the White House haunted? Truman and others seemed to think so 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z A spiritual person who drums, chants and meditates on the island, Snowman said she often senses spirits and other ghostlike presences. Coast Guard’s last lightkeeper looks to 300-year milestone 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z She pointed out bankers sitting around a table, dancers embracing, a television apparently spewing something alarming, various dogs and a large ghostlike figure. D.C.’s walls tell stories 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The eeriest display is a ghostlike shadow imprinted on a stone step as the blast vaporized the human being who had been sitting there. What the Pope Saw at Hiroshima 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Tapit is brilliant white now, almost ghostlike, and blends in among the eight white stucco stallion barns. Kentucky Derby Gets a Silver Sheen 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z Created with Java, Teagan’s ghostlike creatures quickly multiply, even working together to push aside an open window on the computer screen. EXCHANGE: Club introduces skills for high-tech future 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z For that to happen, Waddington concluded, an additional layer of information must exist within a cell—a layer that hovered, ghostlike, above the genome. The Science of Identity and Difference 2016-05-02T04:00:00Z His cuts sutured by a medical team, he returned to the examiner’s squat brick headquarters at First Avenue and 30th Street, coated in a ghostlike gray soot. Charles S. Hirsch, New York’s Chief Medical Examiner on 9/11, Dies at 79 2016-04-10T04:00:00Z The sculpture is a bell-shaped white figure with outstretched limbs and gaping eyes and mouth, ghostlike but whimsical. Poets Give Voice to Art in ‘Sound and Sense’ at Wadsworth Museum 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z Photograph: Guardian research department/Guardian graphic Few spectacles in the 21st century war on terror could be stranger or more disquieting than the ghostlike figures that are displayed behind glass to visiting media. A tour of Guantánamo Bay: ghostlike figures wait as a promise goes unfulfilled 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Instead, he slipped into an isolated, almost ghostlike existence, appearing to be unable to form deep connections with the outside world. Oregon gunman slipped into isolation after California move 2015-10-07T04:00:00Z Starting the show obscured by a grid of yellow flashing lights that hung like a ceiling as billows of fog turned him into a ghostlike figure, West ceded the opening moments to Ocean’s prerecorded vocal. FYF Fest: Kanye West thrills, but we've seen it plenty 2015-08-23T04:00:00Z Her skin is pale, of course, and I don’t want to think that there’s something ghostlike about her, but there is. Permanent Midnight 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The memorial features ghostlike 7-foot-tall steel statues of soldiers who appear to be walking in a field. Honor flight volunteers make every day Veterans Day 2014-11-08T05:00:00Z Fifteen seconds into the dive, his light shone on a telltale shape: a tiny ghostlike creature with eyeballs shimmering like mirrors. A man-made attempt to save the rarest fish on Earth 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z His forensic-like analysis of these tools, which seem to cast ghostlike patterns on immaculate white paper — their backdrop — further imbues them with spiritual life. A Review of 'Outhouse 2014' in Riverhead, and 'Deconstructing the Sayre Barn' in Southampton 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z Drones were more commonly thought of as the weaponized, ghostlike military spy aircraft that lurked over Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia, killing enemy militants and, occasionally, civilians and children. The Drone Regulation Debate Needs to Be Better 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z This is basically Flappy Bird on a Web browser, except your bird flies in a ghostlike flock of birds controlled by people playing on their own computers. Two Flappy Bird Clones That Aren't Terrible 2014-02-14T15:15:31Z For me, other demographic, cultural, and utopian political possibilities float, ghostlike, over partition. India Ink: In Bangladesh, Stranded on the Borders of Two Bengals 2012-11-15T09:20:50Z Instead of taking X-rays of broken bones and rotting teeth, photographer David Maisel applied an artist’s touch to the clinical technology, capturing ghostlike, black-and-white renderings of classical sculptures. Creating art from medical X-rays: ‘The Mob Doctor’ premieres on Fox 2012-09-10T19:50:51Z Amid the gathering shadows of the churchyard her gown gleamed white, ghostlike. The Literary Sense 2012-04-02T02:00:28.147Z Clouds of mist and fog dropped silently from the crest of the hills, sending down long, ghostlike arms writhing through the treetops over the town; still no sign of the enemy. Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 2012-03-12T03:00:26.883Z This plant is white and ghostlike throughout, has stems a foot or two high, but no leaves—only three to five scarious sheathing bracts. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z The interior, lighted by two torches, that burned blue and ghostlike on the bare brick walls, was utterly forlorn. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z The lights gleamed faintly through the haze—half mist, half rain—and the passing crowds, as they hurried by, seemed somehow to have about them an air of being shadowy, ghostlike, unreal. Loaded Dice 2012-01-04T03:00:36.343Z In September, for example, an experiment there reported ghostlike particles known as neutrinos apparently traveling a tiny bit faster than light, an apparent breach of the cosmic speed limit set down by Albert Einstein. Progress in Quest for Mysterious Particle 2011-12-13T20:34:30Z Hampton Court, in the fast-gathering haze beyond, looked grey and ghostlike, with brightly illumined windows beginning to gleam here and there. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z Slowly it glided between the ghostlike silhouettes of vessels at anchor; it turned ponderously; there was a splash of phosphorescence at the bow, a running clang of chain through hawse. Caybigan 2011-08-31T02:01:21.780Z I heard, amazed, his step ring strong upon the stone, for I had felt his absence as a kind of death from which he would emerge ghostlike, impalpable. The Return of the Soldier 2011-08-26T02:00:23.937Z A group of beech trees with their light grey bark loomed up ghostlike before the door. The Camp Fire Girls at Onoway House or, The Magic Garden 2011-07-26T02:00:18.027Z The rows and rows of tents lying southward and eastward of the village gleamed white and ghostlike through the clear obscurity. Peggy Owen at Yorktown 2011-07-17T02:00:35.830Z Then a voice, still low and muffled, but firm and emphatic, detached itself from the ghostlike murmur around. The Tangled Skein 2011-09-21T02:00:29.687Z He had an impulse to withdraw his arms from the girl; but, instead, he clung to her all the faster, as if for shelter from the ghostlike thing. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z Something white and ghostlike glints athwart the gloom. Golden Face A Tale of the Wild West 2011-07-05T02:00:27.453Z The flame of the lamp flickered dimly, in the chimney the charcoal glowed away into white shimmering ashes, a ghostlike ticking was the only sound heard. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z Until, moving closer, we could see, almost ghostlike, a long line of homeless people, waiting to receive free sandwiches and milk from the back of a small white van parked in front of the church. Metropolitan Diary: For a Young Knicks Fan, Not This Year 2011-06-27T03:56:34Z Merwell screamed loud and long and an echo came back that was weird and ghostlike. Dave Porter on Cave Island A Schoolboy's Mysterious Mission 2011-06-15T02:00:23.660Z There was silence for nearly half an hour, while the car slipped, ghostlike, along the wet roadway. The Secret of Lonesome Cove 2011-06-07T02:00:12.563Z Ahead, the mast lanterns of the Dutch merchantmen swayed arcs through the dark, and the silhouettes of Dutch seamen milled along the shore, their voices muffled, ghostlike in the rain. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z The mysterious tone of the man, the ghostlike voice in which he spoke, made me feel unpleasantly, although it was broad day and the sun was shining brightly. Latitude 19 degree A Romance of the West Indies in the Year of Our Lord Eighteen Hundred and Twenty 2011-05-30T02:00:18.047Z I see the light now, making her eyes glitter and her paleness ghostlike. My Little Sister 2011-05-27T02:00:14.023Z But, at last, from the mist along the shore, a white figure emerged, dim and ghostlike in the darkness, and he heard a gentle splashing as she came toward him through the water. The Girl from Alsace A Romance of the Great War, Originally Published under the Title of Little Comrade 2011-04-23T02:00:05.477Z It sounded so dead and ghostlike and dreary, we hurried away as fast as we could. One Year Abroad 2011-03-27T02:00:18.457Z The same almost ghostlike stillness continued, orders were passed backward and forward in whispers. Mysterious Mr. Sabin 2011-03-24T02:00:10.087Z Helen rose, white and ghostlike in the pale, dim light. The Spell 2011-03-20T02:00:34.173Z But suddenly there is an unnatural noise, and a frightful fluttering overhead, and down it comes—a ghostlike creature!—long, lean, and spectral!—with two gigantic wings beating wildly about! The Funny Philosophers Wags and Sweethearts 2011-03-19T02:00:11.277Z The way was mantled with falling ice particles, and the ship's rigging showed up ghostlike. The Ice Pilot 2011-03-09T03:00:48.433Z Without waiting for an answer, he drew her down upon the bench, over which the beech now stretched her ghostlike arms, half-stripped as they were of their foliage. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z Pierre turned toward the barn: those of his comrades who were in the forefront of the small crowd saw him disappearing inside one of those solid shadowy masses that looked so ghostlike in the night. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z In our ordinary efforts to conceive it, invisible and impalpable as it is, we are apt to try so strenuously to divorce it from the notion of substance that it seems ethereal, unreal, ghostlike. Through Nature to God 2010-12-24T03:00:36.410Z Then comes Charlie Watts in a grey suit, thin and ghostlike. Royal Ascot: How to get thrown out of the Royal Enclosure 2010-06-17T20:00:00Z Last week, North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency dismissed him as a "ghostlike" presence "never recognized" by Pyongyang. UN expert: NKorean farm controls causing hunger 2010-03-16T02:56:00Z The so-called weak force, which governs some radioactive decays, seems to be left-handed, causing neutrinos, the ghostlike elementary particles that are governed by that force, to spin clockwise, when viewed oncoming, but never counterclockwise. 2010-02-15T22:23:00Z But it is very horrible, Patty; and I seem to see the poor boy always before my eyes, with his white forehead all dabbled in blood, and his face pale and ghostlike. A Little World Gradually the light in the room increased, and the candles grew ghostlike, and the shadows lifted unexpectedly from the corners. The Princess Galva A Romance He was conscious of some subtle fragrance from her clothes, a perfume strangely different from the odor of the ghostlike flowers that bordered the steep path up which they were climbing. The Hillman Almost to their feet, the long waves came thundering in, weird and ghostlike. To Win the Love He Sought The Great Awakening: Volume 3 The room looked chilly and forsaken; that last-night aspect that is always so ghostlike and unfamiliar. Glories of Spain The more terrible presage of Mark's death cast itself, ghostlike, before his steps. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance And first of all the problem of Gertrude loomed before us, starting up ghostlike at a chance remark, and then barring all progress with more practical considerations, till laid. The Book of Susan A Novel He paid no heed to these swiftly fleeting ghostlike forms. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel He could only tell this by seeing the ghostlike danger-post that stretched above the roadway like a white warning gallows. Harper's Round Table, October 22, 1895 Alan felt that he would not be surprised to learn that his father never had entered these ghostlike rooms since the day his wife had left him. The Indian Drum When Bella returned home early the next morning, he looked at her with a ghostlike countenance: he perceived the coldness and hardness of her face. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Amid these dark trees of mourning are the graves rising ghostlike with their layers of white stones. The Golden Age in Transylvania There were times when it haunted him with a ghostlike horror, and under its influence he would embark in some mad and dare-devil undertaking, utterly inconsequent because utterly without rhyme, reason, or necessity. The Triumph of Hilary Blachland Her head lay against the high back of the grandfather chair, and her face was so white that she reminded me of a snow-wreath flitting past one's window, ghostlike at twilight. The Brightener The mists of the mountains were also rising, and on every hand were weird, ghostlike shadows which enhanced this scene of wild desolation. To Alaska for Gold The Fortune Hunters of the Yukon The landlord, in the sleeping-room adjoining, hearing this, came in, ghostlike, in his shirt and drawers. Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine Out of the garish color and clangor of Broadway, we swept into the tempered quiet of Fifth Avenue, stretching ghostlike between the twin threads of electric opals. The Portal of Dreams She moved away, a slender ghostlike little figure in her white gown; and Jim laid a heavy, kindly hand on my shoulder. The Red Symbol We took the familiar road past the Italian garden, the statues showing ghostlike in the cold gray light, the lake a sheet of ice. Francezka Stunted and dead cottonwoods added their touch to the general scene, leaning this way and that, weird, uncanny, ghostlike. Bring Me His Ears She was more alarmed now than when she saw him rising ghostlike from behind the screen of grass and weeds. The Silent Barrier He was on the point of breaking the seal when the door opened and Daniel came in with still, ghostlike step. Weird Tales. Vol. I She looked ethereal, ghostlike, in her long white cloak, with a filmy hood thing drawn loosely over her shining hair. The Red Symbol Vertical chalk cliffs, ghostlike in the moonlight, came in sight and drew near; that was the Island of Moen. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Masterpieces of German Literature Vol. 19 Peyton having entered, Elizabeth swiftly closed and locked the door behind him, handed him the candle with a low “Good night,” and fled silently, ghostlike, up the stairs, disappearing quickly in the darkness. The Continental Dragoon A Love Story of Philipse Manor-House in 1778 White moths, ghostlike, wavered about her, mosquitoes piped. The Broom-Squire Everywhere jutting rocks and sharp crevices broke the soft mantle of the blueberry thickets; and on the southerly slope, where sunset and moonrise mingled with intricate shadows, everything looked ghostlike and unreal. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Anyhow, none molested us; and slowly, through the sleeping city, and along the open road, the cortège passed, ghostlike, in the dead of night. The Red Symbol Streaks of white shot through streaks of purple and black neutral clouds twirled, swirling in ghostlike forms. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 There was the ghostlike harbor of the spirit-land, the water gleaming betwixt its dark walls, one solitary boat motionless upon it, the men moving about like shadows in the star twilight. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 20, August 1877 Some of the old trees seem to be gray with age, and their whitish, twisted branches offer a sharp contrast to the dark shadows, and make a weird, ghostlike effect. John and Betty's History Visit We wade saddle-deep in herbage; broad-leaved fennel and trembling reeds; wild asparagus and artichokes; a hundred kinds of flowering weeds; acres of last year's thistles, standing blanched and ghostlike in the summer sunshine. Out-of-Doors in the Holy Land Impressions of Travel in Body and Spirit From the outside, through the ball of color, Carse was a ghostlike figure. The Affair of the Brains With nightfall the entire city falls into darkness—strange, ghostlike. The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources A ghostlike wraith of dust blew through the gate. Rosinante to the Road Again In his sleep 161 he moaned a good deal and tossed about, dreaming of mysterious, ghostlike, veiled figures which threatened him and mocked him. Louisiana Lou A Western Story The night was so still and ghostlike—the atmosphere about the cottage so charged with tragedy—the metonymy this invisible speaker employed so subtle! Sunlight Patch But the nearer he approached, the more ghostlike and mysterious did the figure appear. Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden Afore I read about them in the book I used to think they was worse than they is—terrible ghostlike things. The Boy Scouts Book of Stories And yet, in contrast to this ghostlike character, is the strange fact that when comets are of a certain brightness they may actually be seen in full daylight. Astronomy of To-day A Popular Introduction in Non-Technical Language And lastly, ghostlike, came the shattered hopes of to-morrow, and with these he groaned and shivered. Rose O'Paradise Jeremy stayed forward with the lookout, peering constantly into the gloom ahead, and half expecting to see the ghostlike sails of the Revenge whenever for a moment a gray aisle opened in the mist. The Black Buccaneer In the phantom realm into which he has turned the world, his laughter reverberates with ghostlike hollowness. Jewish Literature and Other Essays The air of the December-night Steals coldly around the chamber bright, Where those lifeless lovers be; Swinging with it, in the light Flaps the ghostlike tapestry. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold All my yearning for the strange, the weird, the ghostlike is gratified in dreams. The World I Live In A large bat whisked across the opening, and as they started back alarmed he returned with swift zig-zag cuts and vanished ghostlike into the house. The Panchronicon A boundary pillar gleamed ghostlike a few hundred yards ahead. Captain Desmond, V.C. It was so silent, ghostlike, far away, imagination scarce could picture it. A Victor of Salamis Where, ghostlike in the deepening night, Cowl'd forms brush by in gleaming white. Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold I also, ghostlike, have paced round the haunts of my childhood. The Martian Perched on a whirl of spokes gleaming in the moonlight, a lean black figure in rumpled hose, with flying cloak, slipped ghostlike through the narrow streets at incredible speed. The Panchronicon Its yellow walls now were white and ghostlike. The White Mice Yet if we go to the learned authorities the ghost becomes more ghostlike, the phantom becomes more dim; it is mainly destructive criticism that we meet with, and assertions that are largely negative. The Cornwall Coast But for his part he had no rest, he was disturbed in mind, and it was not till the dawn crept into the room, ghostlike and silent, that he fell asleep. The Trembling of a Leaf Little Stories of the South Sea Islands His face was ghostlike, his eyes were large, staring, vacant. Where the Souls of Men are Calling On bringing the picture out upon the plate, he was surprised to find a shadowy representation of a human being, so remarkably ghostlike and supernatural, that he became amused at the discovery he had made. The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages Roddy settled himself in the saddle, and with a smile of satisfaction beamed upon the ghostlike world around him. The White Mice The ghostlike shadowy columns moved slowly with the deliberate consciousness of power. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan Now and then a bat skimmed across the open glade, and melted into the woodland darkness, or a rabbit flitted past, gray and ghostlike. Vixen, Volume II. So, while Jeb slept, tugs quietly warped her out, towed her in ghostlike fashion toward the Bay and turned her free. Where the Souls of Men are Calling Close to the ground it was thick, viscous, impenetrable, so that one could not see a yard ahead, and walked ghostlike, adventuring into a strange world. The Secret House The moon had risen, on the edge of the horizon, and already the place was beginning to look ghostlike with the pale iridescence. The Ghost Breaker A Novel Based Upon the Play The grand avenue was bridged by tri-coloured balloons floating and shimmering ghostlike far up in the dark sky. The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan The leafless old hawthorns, rugged and crooked, silvered by the moonlight, were most ghostlike of all. Vixen, Volume II. A huge owl sailed ghostlike on silent wings, homeward bound from midnight foray. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters The banks now were low, the swamps, at times, showing their fan-topped cypresses close to where we passed; and all the live oaks carried their funereal Spanish moss, gray and ghostlike. The Lady and the Pirate Being the Plain Tale of a Diligent Pirate and a Fair Captive Six flags flapped ghostlike above them, behind them men writhed in the trampled, bloody grass; before them the sheeted volleys rushed outward into darkness, where the dull battle lightning played. Special Messenger She appeared very tall, ghostlike even, in her soft, white raiment, as she moved across and drew up the sucking blind. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance Like a fire opal the sun rose out of the sea, its first rays dissipating the ghostlike wisps of fog that drifted over the water. Men of Affairs "Well," observed the latter, "as I have seen only this room, and as this room is anything but ghostlike at the present moment, I hardly consider myself competent to judge." The Forsaken Inn A Novel She is gone, I tell you—the room was empty, all the rooms were empty—the passage was void—through the door they went together—silently, silently—ghostlike, slow. Rookwood While round and round those big white wings Grimly and ghostlike creep, My little one hears that the old mill sings: "Sleep, little tulip, sleep!" The Posy Ring A Book of Verse for Children The boys had on light-colored outing shirts, and these, with the handkerchiefs over their faces, made them look quite ghostlike in the gloom under the trees. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. As he approaches his destination a ghostlike face and figure startles Leonhard: he looks back and sees it is "our little minister, Wenck," whom Spener had pointed out to him in their morning walk. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Strolled back slowly along the beach, and, at 8.30, in the gathering dusk, saw the whole flotilla glide away and disappear ghostlike to the Northwards. Gallipoli Diary, Volume 2 When Fame stands by us all alone, she is an angel clad in light and strength; but when Love touches her she drops her sword, and fades away, ghostlike and ashamed. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida The upturned face, with its varnished eyes, gleamed ghostlike in the yellow light. The Genius “Look out, Bill,” cried Orrick, as the thunder of the waves on the beach sounded in his ears, and the great chalk cliffs rose up, ghostlike and dim, before him. The Lifeboat The massive pillars of stone which supported its roof looked pale and ghostlike against the thick darkness which was beyond them, giving the idea of interminable space. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale Flint was not sorry to have it interrupted by a call upon his attention in the appearance of two figures below, looming dim and ghostlike in the fog. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes Now she was there, ghostlike and indistinct, a spirit gliding over the face of the waters; now as I looked she had disappeared and I could scarcely believe that I had seen her. Hurricane Hurry The silence was only broken by the swish, swish, swish of the camels’ feet through the sand, the most ghostlike and uncanny of sounds; so slight, so continuous, so wide-spread. For Fortune and Glory A Story of the Soudan War And I pointed in the direction of a faint, ghostlike blotch that had suddenly appeared at a spot some three points on our port bow. A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story The vale seems lonely, ghostlike; while aloud The housewife's voice is heard with doubled sound. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV Above it through the twilight rose, dim and ghostlike, the masts of the wrecked vessel. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes They walked in a dawn which as yet resembled night rather than day; a night grown diaphanous and ghostlike, a summer night surprised in its sleep and vanishing before their footfall. Fort Amity Now, in the dusk, a corner of it hung ghostlike on the horizon, and then too had disappeared. Out Around Rigel There was something ghostlike in those two women; one passed, without the slightest rustle, by the other, who was sleeping in a low chair, without making the least movement. The Argonauts It was there, just out of sight; and it seemed more terrifying to her than while she could watch its languid and ghostlike progress. The Christmas Child Ties flying under my feet, black poles picked out with lights, flapping ghostlike past the windows…. The Voice of the Machines An Introduction to the Twentieth Century Where the two rivers met on the flats to the west were the high scaffoldings of an ancient Cree graveyard, bizarre and eerie and ghostlike between the voyageurs and the setting sun. Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom A single electric light shone down from the ceiling, creating long, ghostlike shadows as it swayed about in a gentle wind blowing through a broken window. The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier Steeped in the full moon, it sent out its cloying perfume like a visible cloud; her white nightgown glistened ghostlike through the leaves. While Caroline Was Growing Then he looked deeper, with what was still again a flutter of enigmatical fear about his heart, for that twin and ghostlike glow which had filled him with such precipitate terror. Phantom Wires A Novel And even as the remembrance flitted ghostlike through my brain, I saw tearing through the sky, far above the big bulk of the Zeppelin, a monoplane etched in black against the light of dawn. Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley He was out of harmony with the glad living colors around him, ghostlike amid the brightness of the flowering earth and the deep-dyed heaven. The Emigrant Trail The thin form of the President rose white and ghostlike against this black background of clouds. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis He could see the returning figure of the servant, but it seemed as gray and ghostlike as the entire room about him. Never-Fail Blake A ghostlike jet came zooming into view, boring straight toward them. Tom Swift and The Visitor from Planet X The white towers of Ypres gleamed ghostlike in the distant haze. Leaves from a Field Note-Book They trotted off into the ghostlike stillness of the plain which for a space threw back their hoof beats, and then closed round them. The Emigrant Trail The windows and doors were still wide open, the curtains waving wan and ghostlike from their hangings. The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis I watched him go; there was about his progress in state something ghostlike and royal, an old-time, decayed majesty. Romance It was not only the perfectly novel and astonishing character of his playing, but to a large extent his ghostlike appearance, which caused such absurd rumors. Great Violinists And Pianists The deep, sweet, hollow, ghostlike voice of the bell in the steeple, tolling for a funeral, was borne to his ears. The Dreamer A Romantic Rendering of the Life-Story of Edgar Allan Poe The flames in the distance began to pale, and the vast stretch of Fen district before them was shrouded in a light fog, misty, unutterably ghostlike and with the chill lonesomeness of death. The Riddle of the Frozen Flame This silent cathedral, with its vast grounds and its deserted quadrangles torn up by the savage conflict, became to us curiously oppressive—almost ghostlike in the bright sunshine. Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation At the farther end of the apartment four armed giants stood grim and ghostlike in the twilight, which seemed to supply their empty frames with the presentment of actual warriors. The Betrayal But the long rows of benches were empty, the sweepers moved ghostlike amongst the shadows, and an old woman was throwing tealeaves here and there about the platform. A Prince of Sinners The watchers saw it lifting white And ghostlike from the pool of night. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse In the old parlor, where the ancient furniture showed ghostlike shapes in the dimness, and the dead air was like a tomb, Van Alen found a picture of his great-grandfather. The Gay Cockade I saw two or three fallow deer glide past me, with their usual ghostlike silence, and shortly afterwards the woods very near me seemed to shake with something coming. Sketches From My Life By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha The girl rose and moved off toward the van looming ghostlike through the trees. Diane of the Green Van She had never before been so far out upon the river; and how strange and ghostlike it appeared in the silence of the night! French and English A Story of the Struggle in America They had their view of Isaac, too—a wan, ghostlike figure, with haggard cheeks and staring eyes, eyes which blazed out from between the strands of black hair. The Lighted Way The boys had on light colored outing shirts, and these, with the handkerchiefs over their faces, made them look quite ghostlike in the gloom under the trees. The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle Or, The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht Then buried we mine Uncle in the Hynds tomb and my Aunt was left to wander ghostlike, seeking for what she should never find.—Oh, why did not they leave Richard and me alone! A Woman Named Smith Surely the old desk, locked this many a year, might hold some breath of the tragedy that had ghostlike trailed her footsteps. Diane of the Green Van The Atlantic's waves are haunted by historic memories, but few reminders of antiquity rise ghostlike from the dreary waste of the Pacific. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park Sir Charles Hall� tells about seeing Paganini in Paris, where he used to spend an hour every day sitting in a publisher's shop, "a striking, awe-inspiring, ghostlike figure." Famous Violinists of To-day and Yesterday Poor ghostlike languages that hae put off flesh and blood lang syne. Scottish sketches The western wall was ornamented with a long arcade of lofty columns of very white ice, looking strangely ghostlike by the light of two candles, crystallised, and with the porcelain appearance I have described before. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland The silken curtains had waved a second time betwixt the dead face and the moonlight as another fair young girl unclosed the door and glided ghostlike to the bedside. Twice Told Tales With it the features glow with warmth and color; without it they are cold and ghostlike. John L. Stoddard's Lectures, Vol. 10 (of 10) Southern California; Grand Canon of the Colorado River; Yellowstone National Park In the cattle enclosures the beasts moved restless and ghostlike, lowing for their home meadows after the night on the open hillside. A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford The late moon was beginning to silver the world about him; Tom saw the ground gliding ghostlike beneath him as the noble creature sprang forward. Tom Tufton's Travels Now and again a band of antelope swept ghostlike across a ridge. The Covered Wagon The gold of its heavily-wrought frame was tarnished, and its surface so blurred that the old woman's figure, whenever she paused before it, looked indistinct and ghostlike. Twice Told Tales The air of the December-night Steals coldly around the chamber bright, Where those lifeless lovers be; 150Swinging with it, in the light Flaps the ghostlike tapestry. Matthew Arnold's Sohrab and Rustum and Other Poems Polished black squares represented the windows across which drifted hazy lights and ghostlike suggestions of snowflakes. The Rules of the Game The voice seemed to come from the trees behind the camp, and it was so uncanny and ghostlike it made them shiver from head to foot. Young Hunters of the Lake The swart boatmen are the most interesting feature of the place,—tall, silent, moccasined men, followed at the heel by ghostlike dogs. The New North The next sound that Ruth and Bab heard was not ghostlike. The Automobile Girls at Washington Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies Uncanny the attack seemed to him, unreal and ghostlike. The Flying Legion He was ghostlike and frightful in that fixed attitude, and Bog wished that he would move. Round the Block "We haven't seen the ghost, but we have heard those ghostlike voices and we want to find out what it means." Young Hunters of the Lake He had so surrounded himself and his crimes with mystery that it would take more than a country squire's slowly moving brain to draw aside that weird and ghostlike curtain which hid his evil deeds. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk And yet there is some pain in wandering ghostlike among the scenes of his earlier pleasures. English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice It was not of this earth, but mysterious, ghostlike. With the Allies Then, when the elusive form became ghostlike in the distance, Carmen went back to the house. The Port of Adventure "Your theory is all well enough," said Whopper, "but it doesn't account for the ghostlike voice." Young Hunters of the Lake There is a somber presence in each long, dull street; and the dark river creeps ghostlike under the black arches, as if bearing some hidden secret beneath its muddy waves. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Millions of miles, it seemed, below the sound of the unearthly hurricane I heard Larry's voice, thin and ghostlike, beneath its clamour. The Moon Pool The sun came finally, and from my window I watched the trees along the drive take shadowy form, gradually lose their ghostlike appearance, become gray and then green. The Circular Staircase It seemed strange and ghostlike in that dreary old house, perhaps because of the already tremulous state of his nerves. Uncle Tom's Cabin These moving mountains shook tons of black water into dim, ghostlike spray, and sent it hissing down into cavernous troughs. The Cruise of the Dry Dock But the sketch remained ghostlike on the wall. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II But far below you, gliding, silent, ghostlike, the bottom slips beneath. The Forest She sat down beside her; she laid Sophy's head against her broad loving breast; she looked with wondering pity at the small, shrunken face, so wan and ghostlike in the gray light. A Knight of the Nets Years ago dead; her poor voice rising up, a ghostlike wail over your "unbelief." Mary Olivier: a Life Nothing so free and gracious, so lovely and wistful, nothing so richly coloured, yet so ghostlike, exists, planted by the sons of men. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 To the eyes of Philip Sheldon, a man not prone to poetic fancies, she looked even more ghostlike. Charlotte's Inheritance It had no brilliancy, no perceptible hues, but was a mere unpainted framework, as white and ghostlike as the lunar rainbow, which is deemed ominous of evil. Passages from a Relinquised Work (From "Mosses from an Old Manse") Baalbek lay like a city of the dead, the splendid architecture of its countless temples gleaming ghostlike, cold, white and unreal in the pure refulgence of the moon. The Strong Arm The ghostlike passengers, equally silent, sat bolt upright, or hung over the edge boards in attitudes horribly grotesque. The Face and the Mask Already the early splendor of the night was beginning to fade and although the moonlight still made the objects near by fairly distinct, farther off they were black and ghostlike. The Camp Fire Girls at Sunrise Hill I am wearing list slippers, so my ghostlike approach is easily accounted for. The Wheel O' Fortune Beside this the royalty of men like Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon, and more modern aspirants is shadowy and ghostlike. The Evolution of Man Scientifically Disproved In 50 Arguments Disembodied spirits wandered ghostlike and spectral in a shadowy underworld. Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts It knew no sorrow or change; ghostlike and shadowy floated on that Shape through the abyss of Time, governing the world with an unquestioned and noiseless sway. The Pilgrims of the Rhine Like ships passing athwart the white ghostlike splendour of moonlight on the sea, they gleam silvery pure for a moment as they cross its broad belt, and then are swallowed up again in the darkness. Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark Flying battalions of fog advanced swiftly upon us as we faced the West, and the day grew pale and ghostlike. Blindfolded A ghostlike self looked back at her from her toilet-glass: she watched it performing the mechanical gestures of the toilet, dressing her, as it appeared, without help from her actual self. Sanctuary She had not drawn the curtains of the window, and the outlines of the room showing through the blue dusk frightened her, so ghostlike did they appear. A Mummer's Wife It blended into a spectral chorus, a vague, tremulous, eerie chant, ghostlike and awful, as though on the black stream of Acheron the lost souls of a better world had joined in song. Darkness and Dawn There was the ghostlike harbour of the spirit land, the water gleaming betwixt its dark walls, one solitary boat motionless upon it, the men moving about like shadows in the star twilight! The Marquis of Lossie Suddenly there was an eager scramble, a cloud of dust, a swift impression of dim ghostlike figures. The Claim Jumpers A forlorn bird here and there made a thin piping, as it flitted homelessly amid the bleached long grasses, and the frail silk of the milkweed pods came floating along ghostlike on the evening breeze. October Vagabonds This figure, almost indistinguishable, yet so steadfastly present at the stern of the little craft, appeared grim and ghostlike. A Man and His Money They were both ghostlike in their movements, and the dogs stood and watched them intently, ears erect, and with that gravity in their eyes which dogs wear when they are puzzled. At Love's Cost "It sure is a ghostlike place," remarked Stanley. The Rover Boys at College Or, The Right Road and the Wrong Never shall I forget the moments during which I stood trying to recover myself almost fainting from the fœtid odour of the filthy pool, whose white mist rose ghostlike around. Dracula's Guest The form of the horse, cut out in black relief against the sky, was weird and ghostlike. The Sowers No faces of any kind now greeted him there; only trees confronted him, gaunt, ghostlike in the early morning mists. A Man and His Money Her hand, usually held up to her cheek, was absolutely ghostlike. Memories of Hawthorne She rose at once and came to him, moving ghostlike in her white draperies, her eyes shining—her lips tremulous. Temporal Power Yet under this ghostlike pall, forms soon began to appear. The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure Suddenly something appeared out of the smoke close beside us, something white and ghostlike. The Camp Fire Girls Go Motoring Or, Along the Road That Leads the Way It was as if nature had stood still here for twelve long summers, or as if he were walking, ghostlike, amid the ever present memories of his mother's heart. The Battle Ground Day, quench thy torch! come, ghostlike, from on high, With thy loved silence, come, thou haunting Eve, Broaden below thy web of purple dye, Which lulled boughs mysterious round us weave. The Poems of Schiller — Third period By this time, everything was hidden from sight and even the foremost rider looked ghostlike in the gray light and snow. Polly of Pebbly Pit That wretched consumptive, Rateau, was with them, and made a facetious remark as Kennard, pale and haggard, almost ghostlike, with a white bandage round his head, appeared upon the landing. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel She noted by the light of the lamp in her hand that his pallor was ghostlike, and she asked quickly: "Vere is Miss Jocelyn?" Without a Home Torches burned in great sockets in the vast hall and along the massive oak stairway, and hundreds of candles flickered ghostlike in the vast apartments of the princely mansion. I Will Repay Though his white-limbed goddess fade ghostlike, the symbol is as valid as ever. The Emancipated A world in which everything is suffused with rosy color beneath the stars of midnight, and where granite symbols rise up, ghostlike and motionless. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Soon they reached the cross-roads, and in the dense blackness of the night the gaunt arms of the sign-post pointed ghostlike towards the north. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel He had only time for a horrified vision of the ghostlike figure, the staring eyes, the open mouth, the white cheeks. The Captives She seemed now to be walking in a dream, the chintz hangings to be swaying ghostlike around her, the yells and shrieks below to come from the very bowels of the earth. I Will Repay She saw his face pale and ghostlike, yet he never looked at her, but ran past and on without stopping. The Blue Moon There was a ghostlike, chilling effect that left him uneasy. Merton of the Movies At the gate he paused and looked back, with a ghostlike, still surprise. The Gadfly At this point in the peace intrigue the ambiguous figure of Napoleon the Little reappears, though only to pass ghostlike across the back of the stage. The Day of the Confederacy; a chronicle of the embattled South The flashed of lightning seemed to reveal ghostlike processions of the departed heroes of France, wandering silently amidst the tombs. I Will Repay We are weary of gliding ghostlike through the world, which is itself so slight and unreal. Essays — Second Series An awful vision—a recollection, so unexpected, so ghostlike in that weird light that he thought he was losing his senses—stood before him. A Sappho of Green Springs At her head crouched the negress, her white garments showing ghostlike through the gloom. To Have and to Hold Her senses began to reel; she seemed not to see anything very distinctly: even the loved form took on a strange and ghostlike shape. The Elusive Pimpernel The long rows of calla lilies against the opposite wall looked ghostlike in the darkness, and seemed to have turned their white faces towards him. The Bell-Ringer of Angel's Then the moonlight vanished ghostlike from one of the windows, a material glow took its place, and a girlish figure, holding a candle, drew the white curtains together. Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories The air was crisp and cold,—a trifle colder than usual,—and there was a singular thickening of the sun's rays on the ridge, which made the distant peaks indistinct and ghostlike. Tales of Trail and Town Beyond, the woods had been burnt, the trees rising from the red ground like charred and blackened stakes, with the ghostlike mist between. To Have and to Hold All of the breezy solitude Was filled with the spicing of pine and bay And resinous odors mixed and blended; And dim and ghostlike, far away, The smoke of the burning woods ascended. Complete Poetical Works In the uncertain moonlight she saw moving cautiously away from them, and unconscious of their presence, a white, ghostlike figure. The Lost Road She lingered over the Spanish syllables with an imitation of Dona Anna's lisp, and with another smile, but more faint and more ghostlike than before; vanished with her companion. A Ward of the Golden Gate I looked again, and there passed slowly, between me and the track of the moon, a long black vessel with tall, shadowy, ghostlike sails, gliding smooth and noiseless through the water, like a snake. Armadale In the front of the inn, surrounded by a ghostlike group that spoke its suspicions, Chesterton was lifting his saddle from El Capitan and rubbing the lame foreleg. A Charmed Life But the horses were restless, moving all the time, and as they moved she caught glimpses of that other coach and of Chauvelin's ghostlike figure, walking rapidly through the mist. El Dorado, an adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel Like a ghost, the ghostlike figure had vanished. The Lost Road Shadowy as she is, ghostlike across the page of history, it is plain that she was a reality to her son. Lincoln; An Account of his Personal Life, Especially of its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Anything so weird, wild, and ghostlike I never imagined before even in a dream! The Two Destinies The door of the cabin was shut; a ghostlike wreath of blue smoke curled from the chimney. The Blue Flower Of the older civilisation, if civilisation it can be called, very little survived the political transformation, and that little is generally supposed to hover ghostlike around Kief and Moscow. Russia Nearer, a great hawk circled slowly on widespread wings, his neck craned downward as if he were watching his own shadow move ghostlike over the grass. The Heritage of the Sioux The fog slips ghostlike into a thousand rooms, Whirls over sleeping faces, Spins in an atomy dance round misty street lamps; And blows in cloudy waves over open spaces . The House of Dust; a symphony Only now and then, in a strange, projected, wraithlike effect, the moon ray glinted timidly on the tip of a nickel dial, and, ghostlike, disclosed a human hand. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale A second and a third canoe came around the bend from below, glided ghostlike to the crossing of the runaways, and vanished in the mangroves. Adventure Their appearances in the light of day were very regular, and yet somewhat ghostlike in their detachment and silence. Notes on Life and Letters |
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