...I could now look down at ghostly fingers, wraith-like…

“I stand there for a while, then sit cross-legged before it and bow my head. "Hi, Metias," I say in a soft voice. "Today's…

— Marie Lu

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I sometimes go back to walk through the ghostly remains of Sutton Place where the rude, new buildings stand squarely in one another's river…

— John Cheever

A picture that is ghostly and silent can be more eloquent and less clichéd than a noisier photo-journalistic approach and I have attempted to…

— Simon Norfolk

Far, far away something made a single ghostly howl, like a banshee in the dark.

— Lucy Christopher

“After all, let a man take what pains he may to hush it down, a human soul is an awful ghostly, unquiet possession, for…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

What silence rules the ghostly hours That guard the close of human sleep!

— George Sterling

“An invisible foot trod on his back, a ghostly patter passed downstairs, he heard the two police officers in the hall shout and run,…

— H.G. Wells

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

— Virginia Woolf

Under none of the accredited ghostly circumstances, and environed by none of the conventional ghostly surroundings, did I first make acquaintance with the house…

— Charles Dickens

“3. The séance was for real and everyone knows it. But they won’t discuss it because A. they don’t trust me, B. they don’t…

— Jeannine Garsee

“Once I am sure there's nothing going on I step inside, letting the door thud shut. Another church: matting, seats, and stone, And little…

— Philip Larkin

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer…

— Edgar Allan Poe

“Maybe he, like me, is engaged in the kind of unspoken rebellion you don't want to perform too brightly since you're never certain anyone…

— Stasia Ward Kehoe

I know that there's a lot of room to maneuver in those kind of ghostly musical spheres.

— Rob Brown