But whaur does the "ghaist" come intil the story? 'inquired the speaker in conclusion. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
"As a 'ghaist' should be -- where a 'ghaist' ought to be -- why, you little fool, you talk as if the manners and customs of ghosts had been familiar to you from your infancy! ❋ Wilkie Collins (1856)
“You must take your chance of the ghaist, man,” said ❋ Unknown (2008)
And when my gudesire came forward, Sir Robert, or his ghaist, or the deevil in his likeness, said, ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Are not you,” said Mrs. Dods, opening her eyes a little as she spoke, “the ghaist of Francis Tirl?” ❋ Unknown (2008)
Crouched under the 'cauld drift,' she recalls every image of horror - 'the yellow-wymed ask,' 'the hairy adder,' 'the auld moon-bowing tyke,' 'the ghaist at e'en,' ❋ Unknown (2004)
“Arl in white — as a ghaist should be,” answered the ghost-seer, with a confidence beyond his years. ❋ Unknown (2003)
'Onnyway, naethin' came o't, 'continued Ringan, imbibing thoughtfully from his glass,' but what I'm thinkin 'the noo is that aiblins anither ghaist-gliff micht do a body I ken o' a guid turn. ' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
'It's a gey an' useful thing a ghaist, 'said Ringan meditatively. ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
'It's either the storm, or aiblins a ghaist, or else some one's playin' tricks on baith o 'us.' ❋ Howard Pease (N/A)
I saw my Jamie's ghaist, for I couldna think it he, ❋ Various (N/A)
The witch and ghaist have made themselves good sport. ❋ James Grant (N/A)
I saw my Jamie's ghaist, for I couldna think it he ❋ Various (N/A)
And when my gudesire came forward, Sir Robert, or his ghaist, or the deevil in his likeness, said, Weel, piper, hae ye settled wi my son for the years rent? ❋ Unknown (1921)
I wander my lane, like a night-troubled ghaist, [alone, ghost] ❋ William Allan Neilson (1907)
Each made his private comments on the scene they had witnessed, until Hobbie Elliot suddenly exclaimed, ` Weel, I'll uphaud that yon ghaist, if it be a ghaist, has baith done and suffered muckle evil in the flesh, that gars him rampauge in that way after he is dead and gane. '' ❋ Unknown (1898)
` ` I'll hae neither hand nor foot in't, '' said Hobbie; ` ` let the ghaist take his ain way, for God's sake! '' ❋ Unknown (1898)
` ` I am amaist persuaded it's the ghaist of a stane-mason --- see siccan band-stanes as he's laid! ❋ Unknown (1898)
My leddy was as thin and as white as a ghaist, and many's the time as I've come on her and found her yammerin 'and greetin' all by hersel '. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
