Ghostly
['gəʊs(t)lɪ] or ['ɡostli]
Definition
(a.) Relating to the soul; not carnal or secular; spiritual; as, a ghostly confessor.
(a.) Of or pertaining to apparitions.
(adv.) Spiritually; mystically.
Typist: Toni
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Spiritual, of the soul.[2]. Spectral, phantom-like.
Editor: Sonya
Examples
- Unseen by the spy, Mr. Cruncher stood at his side, and touched him on the shoulder like a ghostly bailiff. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Ghostly deep as is the stillness of this convent, it is only eleven. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The palish, gnarled trunks showed ghostly, and like old priests in the hovering distance, the fern rose magical and mysterious. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Seated at table in the act of drinking, Mr Dorrit still saw him through his wine-glass, regarding him with a cold and ghostly eye. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Eleven o'clock has just struck, in a ghostly and solemn manner, from a turret over the centre of the house, which I saw when I came in. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The blooming Judy, without removing her gaze from the fire, gives her grandfather one ghostly poke. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- His presence was unnatural and ghostly to them. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Mrs. Snagsby is so perpetually on the alert that the house becomes ghostly with creaking boards and rustling garments. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A ghostly shade, frilled and night-capped, follows the law-stationer to the room he came from and glides higher up. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Where be these dog-priests now, growled the Baron, who set such price on their ghostly mummery? Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Firkin rushed downstairs to Bowls who was reading out the Fire and the Frying Pan to his aide-de-camp in a loud and ghostly voice. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Well, then, said Bois-Guilbert, I will speak as freely as ever did doting penitent to his ghostly father, when placed in the tricky confessional. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Birkin, white and strangely ghostly, went over to the carved figure of the negro woman in labour. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- SHE warn't, sir,' said Sloppy, taking this ghostly counsel rather ill, in behalf of his late benefactress. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But I was no sooner in the passage than I extinguished my candle; for I saw Miss Havisham going along it in a ghostly manner, making a low cry. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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