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Definition of Ghastlinesses
1. ghastliness [n] - See also: ghastliness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghastlinesses
Literary usage of Ghastlinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Newest Materialism: Sundry Papers on the Books of Mill, Comte, Bain by William Maccall (1873)
"Bacon delivered the world from ghastlinesses—the ... pathologists lead us back
to ghastlinesses the most horrible. He unveiled to us the health and wealth ..."
2. Mr. Punch's History of Modern England by Charles Larcom Graves (1922)
"... is an inoffensive though purposeless, and not very interesting bizarrerie.
But such gratuitous ghastlinesses as "Will o' the Wisp," "Felo de ..."
3. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1847)
"Thee, actual reader, we well discern to be of a different spirit : come, then,
and shudder with us, in the first place, over some ghastlinesses gleaned from ..."
4. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1906)
"... our disturbed dreams are sometimes filled with ghastlinesses which seem not
to arise out of any conceivable association of our waking ideas, ..."
5. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1858)
"... ones,—as our disturbed dreams are sometimes filled with ghastlinesses which
seem not to arise out of any conceivable association of our waking ideas, ..."
6. A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury (1912)
"... the nightmare ghastlinesses and extravagances not merely of Tourneur and
Webster, but even of Marlowe in Barabas, and the difference of Shakespere's ..."
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