Spooks

A half-century of spooks is often so untethered from reason, the subject cries out for the novelist as much as the historian, as even some agents admitted. ❋ Robert McCrum (2010)

In The Manuscript, an enormous cast of characters comprising many sysadmins, many gun-freaks, several combat veterans, spooks from a number of agencies, named and unnamed, ten zillion cops, a group of murderous avenging Taoists, and Sir Richard Francis Burton and a group of Andean holy men who have discovered the secret of the universe. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The orphidnetters are haunted by spooks from a parallel dimension, who seek to prevent them from using the smarts of the orphidnet to develop interdimensional travel. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Do spooks from the Russian Mob sit at cageside just in case you try to win? ❋ Unknown (2009)

If any one is interested in Richard Armitage he is in the BBC series Robin Hood (he's a Baddie) and a TV series called the spooks but not the early series. ❋ Nalini Singh (2008)

These crewmembers, dubbed spooks, held top-secret clearances and bunked together in the rear of the ship. ❋ James Scott (2009)

One of the spooks is her own father, the other her first husband. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

I had half a notion that the word "spook" would draw him out, for I have noticed that ghosts do not like to be called spooks any more than negroes like to be called "niggers." ❋ John Kendrick Bangs (1892)

The climate change negotiations have now entered a phase where a team of tame "spooks" is needed by anybody trying to make sense of the myriad messages emerging from the hectic schedule of pre-Copenhagen meetings. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They have just finished filming the final series of Robin Hood, unless they decide to go without the actor who plays Robin Hood, so Armitage would be free - except for the fact he is now the lead in "spooks" MI5 overseas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Scooter Libby's indictment exposes the covert skirmishing between the new "spooks" of media-age Washington: White House P.R. operatives and the press. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The "spooks," as the former agents were called, were known to barge into offices and confiscate computers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

LISOVICZ: No. I think that -- you know, I think that there's a lot of uncertainty, and that is just one of the things that kind of spooks the markets. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And, of course, when push comes to shove, the "spooks" may not like the way they were manipulated and squandered by the neo-cons, but they won't necessarily want to do anything for progressives or liberal Democrats who they believe (perhaps correctly, I'm not sure) have had it out for them. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Coleman Silk (Anthony Hopkins) is a classics professor fired from his job for innocently using the racially offensive word "spooks" in class. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Now the PG, other neocons and collaborators have to be defended by Chertoff and his Gestapo 'spooks' and troops against the - not only in the US - but globally growing anger of the victims, which they now see as 'the mob'. ❋ Michael Caddell (2006)

In the end we opted for Spooks Series 1 known by the more politically correct title of MI5 in the US, where the term 'spooks' can mean something other than spies. ❋ DAVID BISHOP (2006)

Intelligence Corps personnel, known to us as "spooks" or "green slime," moved from room to room with bundles of maps in their arms, being meticulous about closing doors behind them. ❋ McNab, Andy (1993)

Hollis meets artists who create ghosts of dead rockers on sidewalks (spooks in other words); Tito might be a spy (another spook); and Milgrim doesn’t seem to exist except in squalid hotel rooms paid for by his possible captor (a third kind of spook). ❋ Unknown (2009)

1. Careful on this phone line, there could be spooks listening in. 2. I heard [this place] was [crawling with] spooks, some kind of [weapon of mass destruction] is being sold or something. ❋ Alan (2004)

[fuck], there are [alot] of spooks [up in here] ❋ Limer (2005)

[i am] going to [watch] spooks [tonight]! ❋ .................. (2006)

look at them spooks all [hanging in] a [grave] [yard] diiiiicks ❋ Samxcore (2005)

[gave] me the spooks ❋ Krkič (2020)

P. [Frenchie] [Proudhon]: The right to [property] is a spook! ❋ T. Pseud (2016)

that [black] [suv] is full of [spooks] ❋ Rusty Shackleford (2005)

When the [gang] came into [the mall], all of the people were "spooked" from the mean looks on all their [faces]. ❋ Blackmanofsteel40 (2006)

We knew something was [going on] when the [spooks] [showed up]. ❋ Scarf8ce (2006)

(Very old man sitting on his pourch enjoying a nice glass of Lemonade.)"I sure hope them [spooks] walkin' by don't pluck a [watermellon] from [my garden]." ❋ Durka Durka Durka Durka (2005)