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Definition of Ghostliest
1. ghostly [adj] - See also: ghostly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghostliest
Literary usage of Ghostliest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ben-Hur by Lew Wallace (1881)
"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 ..."
2. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1876)
"... a new and delicate mode of illumination for high powers,1 and worked up to
15000 diameters; but not the ghostliest semblance of such particles was seen. ..."
3. English Literature: An Illustrated Record by Richard Garnett, Edmund Gosse (1903)
"... the wily traitor Tod On knees fell, with head into his neck : " Welcome, my
father ghostliest under God,'1 Quoth he, with many a linge and many a beck. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1866)
"The effect of the whole is very terrific, after the fashion of the ghostliest
conceptions of Jean Paul Richter, and other German masters of the spectral ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"To-morrow midnight they may stalk about in their shrouds, and the loch may lie
beside them like a mirror in a twilight room—one of the ghostliest of things. ..."
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