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It is the intrusion into our matter-of-fact lives of the uncanny element, which the novice so grossly misuses in his tales of premonitory dreams and visions, and of most unghostly ghosts.

From Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story by Barrett, Charles Raymond

We went to bed feeling quite happy, saying we had never been in such an unghostly house before.

From The Alleged Haunting of B—— House by Goodrich-Freer, A.

It was the most unghostly thing in the world, with its lavender border and its faint scent.

From The Circular Staircase by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

My voice, which I take it had nothing ghostly in it, and still more the levelled pistol, which of all implements is the most unghostly, dispelled his dread.

From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Sabatini, Rafael

They did, however, shout with laughter when a second ghost, the assistant to the first tripped out from behind another tree with a little chirp that was distinctly unghostly.

From The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas by Aldridge, Janet