There are several instances of this in tradition, but one struck me particularly, as I heard it from the lips of one who professed receiving it from those of a ghost-seer. ❋ Unknown (2008)
“Arl in white — as a ghaist should be,” answered the ghost-seer, with a confidence beyond his years. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The dreaded hour, the post-hour, was nearing, and I sat waiting it, much as a ghost-seer might wait his spectre. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The ghost-seer was a young candidate for orders, eighteen years of age, of the name of Billing. ❋ Various (N/A)
Pfeffel, then, unknown to the ghost-seer, had the ground dug up, when there was found at some depth, beneath a layer of quicklime, a decomposing human body. ❋ Various (N/A)
Anything less suggestive of the supernatural, or in every way less like the typical ghost-seer, was surely never produced than the round and rubicund little person I found in conversation with the Atherleys. ❋ Lanoe Falconer (N/A)
My informant, who thought the whole matter very serious, and was disposed to believe the unearthly visit to have been no idle one, added, that it _had_ made the ghost-seer, for the time at all events, a wiser and better man. ❋ Various (N/A)
General Wynyard, near relations of the ghost-seer of that name. ❋ Various (N/A)
A point was supposed to have been made, when the counsel for the defence asked the ghost-seer what language the ghost, who was ❋ John Hill Burton (N/A)
Motherwell was a noted ghost-seer, and few could beat him in the magic circle. ❋ Various (N/A)
Kant who first called him a ghost-seer; but while Kant was doing his best to turn all realities into the ghastliest of spectres, and remove all the underpinning of faith, till the heavens themselves should tumble through, ❋ Various (N/A)
Now the present book embodies an attempt to write a _cheerful_ ghost-story; a story in which the ghostly element is of a friendly and pleasant character, and sheds a sense of happiness and sunshine over the entire life of the ghost-seer. ❋ Frederic H. Balfour (N/A)
He has been known but little, except as a ghost-seer, or as a Samson grinding painfully in sectarian mills. ❋ Various (N/A)
XII., and fancies himself a prophet and ghost-seer. ❋ Various (N/A)
She marched the shrinking ghost-seer down to the spring and ordered her to proceed straightaway over the bridge and into the dusky retreats of wailing ladies and headless specters beyond. ❋ Unknown (1908)
"Sure then, and it's meself will tell your honor the rights of it," said the ghost-seer. ❋ Dorothy Scarborough (1906)
"What are you staring at, little ghost-seer?" he asked, passing his hand under her arm; and stepped back, surprised, as she freed herself with a quick, nervous movement, looked at him, then averted her head. ❋ Frank Craig (1899)
The Tami Islanders of Huon Gulf (continued), their doctrine of souls and gods, pp. 296 _sq. _; dances of masked men representing spirits, 297; worship of ancestral spirits and offerings to them, 297 _sq. _; life of the souls in Lamboam, the nether world, 299 _sq. _; evocation of ghosts by the ghost-seer, 300; sickness caused by ghosts, 300 _sq. _; novices at circumcision supposed to be swallowed and disgorged by a monster, 301 ❋ James George Frazer (1897)
And Rufe crouched over, shivering in every limb, in equally excellent mimicry of a ghost-seer, or an unwilling chip-picker under stress of weather. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
The captain, without any argument at the time, privately resolved to watch the motions of the ghost-seer in the night; whether alone, or with a witness, I have forgotten. ❋ Unknown (1885)
