Read full poem →And Lilia woke with sudden-shrilling mirth 210
An echo like a ghostly woodpecker,
Hid in the ruins ; till the maiden Aunt
Dictionary Entry
Of or pertaining to ghosts or spirits.
In a Sentence
“The ghostly moaning was heard from upstairs.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
white ghostly. ghostlypresence ghostlyfigure ghostlyfather ghostlylight ghostly
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Poetry examples for “ghostly”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Blown sands of drifted hours, which the moon
Streaks with a ghostly finger, and her sneer
Pulls at my lengthening shadow. Yes, 'tis that!
Read full poem →Along, above, and underneath the street,
Bearing their strangely-ghostly burdens by,
The women and the men of garish nights,
Read full poem →Which at high noon had basked in quiet gold,
Far as the eye could see was ghostly white;
Dark was the night save for the snow’s weird light.
Read full poem →If close thou spy, to mark
The ghostly chrysalis,
That, if thou touch it, stirs in its dream dark;
Read full poem →Through ages vast
The ghostly grace of her transfigured past
Over the present, harass'd and forlorn,
Read full poem →forgotten, like the tone of a rarely used but distinctive organ-stop.
Notable among them is Buerger's "Lenore," that ghostly and resonant ballad,
the lure and foil of the translators. Few will deny that Coleridge's
Read full poem →By that he ended had his ghostly sermon,
The fox was well induc'd to be a parson,
Read full poem →In tempest or the night of nightingales,
To turn the cross-roads to a ghostly room.
Read full poem →Twilight has fined to naught, the parsley flower
Figures, suspended still and ghostly white,
The past hovering as it revisits the light.