Example Sentences

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A cold, raw, rainy, dismal morning—the sky black and hopeless of sunshine, the long bleak blasts complaining around the old house, and rattling ghostily the skeleton trees.

From Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton's Daughters A Novel by Fleming, May Agnes

He knocked with his knuckles a thundering reveille that echoed and re-echoed ghostily through the rumbling old house.

From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes

And ghostily, as in a silver mist, he saw above the altar the likeness of a spear, and beside it a dish or salver.

From King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls by Gilbert, Henry

The eerie twilight was falling, rain and wind rising and falling with it, the street lamps twinkling ghostily through the murky gloaming, the pavement black and shining.

From The Unseen Bridgegroom or, Wedded For a Week by Fleming, May Agnes

Out of this, rising slowly and ghostily, was a glistening gray body like a drowned giant that might have suddenly come up to breathe.

From The Corner House Girls on Palm Island by Gooch, Thelma