ghost
noun
the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
ghostily
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a word derived from
ghost.
Example Sentences
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Presently, from overhead, and ghostily piercing the gray veil, came Ruth's clear hail.
From Fire Mountain A Thrilling Sea Story by Norman Springer
And, when the red sun droppeth down And wet sand gleameth ghostily, Men see her weave a sea-weed crown Between the twilight and the sea.
From Fires of Driftwood by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
At least, there was a great window at the far end, and the moonlight looked 138 ghostily in.
From The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City by Amy Bell Marlowe
From a rent cloud the moonlight, ghostily, Slid clearer to the floor, as, gauntly thin, She opening, they leaped through with bound so free, Then shook the rain-drops from their shaggy skin.
From The poetical works of George MacDonald in two volumes — Volume 2 by George MacDonald
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 Henry Gilbert
