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Definition of Ghostlier
1. ghostly [adj] - See also: ghostly
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghostlier
Literary usage of Ghostlier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1916)
"Boccaccio had evaded the ghostlier suggestions of the scene by making the body
miraculously intact. Keats does not evade them; but he ennobles what he will ..."
2. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1854)
"The human world had ebbed away, and another, and a ghostlier, was left stranded
in the silence. The pale gleam of the early moon, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1892)
"The blinds were close drawn, and the whole house looked ghostlier and more deserted
than the other had done. There was a row of bell-knobs on the right- ..."
4. "Out of the East.": Reveries and Studies in New Japan by Lafcadio Hearn (1896)
"This has the ghostlier power of separating itself from earth, yet is always at
last recalled thereto, and condemned to feed that which it once fed upon. ..."
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