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Definition of Ghouls
1. ghoul [n] - See also: ghoul
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ghouls
Literary usage of Ghouls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The book of were-wolves: Being an Account of a Terrible Superstition by Sabine Baring-Gould (1865)
"ghouls—Story from Fornari— Quotation from Apuleius—Incident mentioned by ...
These ghouls, as they are called, are supposed generally to require the flesh ..."
2. The History of the San Francisco Disaster and Mount Vesuvius Horror by Charles Eugene Banks, Opie Percival Read (1906)
"... and State Troops Patrol Streets— Shooting of ghouls and Thieves—Hunger, Thirst
and Fears of Epidemic—Lunatics From Shattered Asylum Tied to Trees. ..."
3. The Mystic and Other Poems by Philip James Bailey (1855)
"... and adulterous ghouls, Vices that flesh devour, defile the dead, The sun-fowl,
spirit of life-consuming time, ..."
4. A Tour of St. Louis; Or, The Inside Life of a Great City by Joseph A. Dacus, James William Buel (1878)
"ghouls OF THE CEMETERIES. THE GHASTLY TRAFFIC IN CORPSES FOR DISSECTING-ROOMS.
The repose of the remains of the dead in the narrow tenements of ourth to ..."
5. The Humbugs of the World: An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions by Phineas Taylor Barnum (1866)
"If children are permitted to feast their ears night after night (as I was) with
stories of ghosts, hobgoblins, ghouls, witches, apparitions, bugaboos, ..."
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