The one thing that fits those specifications is a black hole, an object so massive and hence so gravitationally powerful that not even the ghostliest ray of light can escape its clench. ❋ Unknown (2008)
I imparted my secret to him, because I had never quite forgotten his throwing his cap at the bell; because I had, on another occasion, noticed something very like a fur cap, lying not far from the bell, one night when it had burst out ringing; and because I had remarked that we were at our ghostliest whenever he came up in the evening to comfort the servants. ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was as if all the ghosts in Hades had suddenly piped up at their shrillest and ghostliest. ❋ George W. Gough (N/A)
They struck grayest and ghostliest on a high balcony, where a woman's figure crouched, swathed in damp, trailing drapery, with silky, falling hair about a still face, and steadfast eyes that had burned just as steadfastly through the long hours gone by. ❋ Various (N/A)
It was her turn to smile, the palest, ghostliest of smiles, and even for so much she must have been oddly moved. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
And so I told the faithful Johnson to bring wee Tinkle Tom along, and get him up to the little stage, and I faced my audience in the midst of a storm of the ghostliest applause I ever hope to hear! ❋ Harry Lauder (1910)
I stood in front of them and did the ghostliest things till I was clean tired out and discouraged. ❋ Dorothy Scarborough (1906)
To put it philosophically, she made the mistake of avoiding all realities, and yet marrying herself to the hardest of realities, a working man; so it was inevitable that she should go back at last to the region of shadows and mate with that ghostliest of all unrealities, the non-working man. ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
He had walked in total unconsciousness, neither hearing nor seeing anybody or anything, and without a thought of where he was going, or the ghostliest semblance of a purpose in his mind. ❋ Unknown (1901)
In a steep deserted square one of these doors opens its panels of weather-silvered cedar on the court of the frailest, ghostliest of ❋ Edith Wharton (1899)
What I shall do with the young cub I have not the ghostliest shadow of an idea. ❋ Ralph Connor (1898)
"You are the ghostliest thing I've ever known," said David with a nervous laugh of relief. ❋ George Barr McCutcheon (1897)
Dead, in the ghostliest sense of the word, -- the viewless pressure upon her life of numberless vanished generations. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Much more remote, upon our right, enormous, pansy-purple, tower the shapes of the Kita-yama, or northern range; filing away in tremendous procession toward the sunset, fading more and more as they stretch west, to vanish suddenly at last, after the ghostliest conceivable manner, into the uttermost day. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Dead rich purples cloud broadly behind and above the indigo blackness of the serrated hills -- mist purples, fading upward smokily into faint vermilions and dim gold, which again melt up through ghostliest greens into the blue. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)
Make it of all ghost-stories the ghostliest, the truest! ❋ Unknown (1875)
It was the strangest, ghostliest thing he had ever seen! ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
