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...s the office. Better to spend the night with Eddy, the watchman than alone with the ghosts of my past and a potentially revenant burglar. One of ... ...ended bony thumb and index finger. He stored his other palm under the table. The whisperer was beefy, ruddy, and hunched. Grease ball was leaner a...

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... how they should march, he seemed quietly and contentedly to yeeld up the ghost. I have seldome seen a vanitie continue for so long. This other curi... ...times representeth strange apparitions, as their fathers and grandfathers ghosts, risen out of their graves, and in their winding sheets: and to othe... ...So was I sometimes wont to doe, and if I heard any body speake, either of ghosts walking, of foretelling future things, of enchantments, of witchcra... ...t death is no whit danted in his assurednesse; he that in yeelding up his ghost beholding his enemie with a scornefull and fierce looke, he is vanqui... ... their disputations to their close-stoole, both suddenly yeelded up their ghosts on them), and exaggerate that divine vengeance by the circumstance ... ...s all alone, sitting at their meat, beleagred round with so many talkers, whisperers, and gazing beholders, unknowne what they are or where they com...

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..., that I laughed And Lilia woke with sudden-thrilling mirth An echo like a ghostly woodpecker, Hid in the ruins; till the maiden Aunt (A little sense ... ...while I walked and talked as heretofore, I seemed to move among a world of ghosts, And feel myself the shadow of a dream. Our great court-Galen poised... ...stance or the shadow? will it hold? I have no sorcerer’s malison on me, No ghostly hauntings like his Highness. I Flatter myself that always everywhe... ... sudden the weird seizure and the doubt: I seemed to move among a world of ghosts; The Princess with her monstrous woman-guard, The jest and earnest w... ... 42 The Princess Not long; I shook it off; for spite of doubts And sudden ghostly shadowings I was one To whom the touch of all mischance but came As... ...f those tall columns drowned In silken fluctuation and the swarm Of female whisperers: at the further end Was Ida by the throne, the two great cats C...

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... visible here; like a wine-skin from which the wine is all drawn. Like the ghost of himself! Low is his once loud bruit; scarcely audible, save, with ... ...at most twice, in this Revolution-tumult the figure of thee emerges; mute, ghost-like, as ‘with stars dim-twinkling through. ’ And then, when the ligh... ...84.) The Feast of Pikes has danced itself off, and become defunct, and the ghost of a Feast;—nothing of it now remaining but this vision in men’s memo... ...lready, in eleven short months, were in that Limbo near the Moon, with the ghosts of other Chimeras. There, except for rare specific purposes, let the... ...and carriers, of Half-pay braggarts from the Cafe Valois, of Chambermaids, whisperers, and subaltern officious persons; fierce Patriotism looking on a... ... for the spoken Veto, when it cannot become an acted one! It is true, some ghost of a War-minister, or Home-minis- ter, for the time being, ghost whom...

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... la! Narain! The churel! The churel!’ A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child bed. She haunts lonely roads, her fe... ...e twenty yards farther up the line he lay down again, taking care that the whisperers should hear his grunts and groans as he recomposed himself. Afte... ...fascinated Kim. The Lahore Museum was larger, but here were more wonders – ghost daggers and prayer wheels from Tibet; turquoise and raw amber neck l... ...lass to St Xavier’s. Three weeks later, Colonel Creighton, pricing Tibetan ghost daggers at Lurgan’s shop, faced Mahbub Ali openly mutinous. Lurgan Sa... ...nd thought the better of Hurree Babu, moved by like desire. He dropped the ghost dagger and looked up at Mahbub. ‘How soon can we get the colt from th... ... sad coloured robe, the amulet was on his neck; begging gourd, rosary, and ghost dagger (Mr Lurgan had forgotten nothing) were all to hand, with medi...

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... upon his throne, and is the God of dominion. 9 He created her in the Holy Ghost, and saw her, and numbered her, and measured her. 10 And he poured he... ...rd of the wise, but the tongue of the fool is his ruin. 16 Be not called a whisperer, and be not taken in thy tongue, and confounded. 17 For confusion... ... thief, and an evil mark of disgrace upon the dou- ble tongued, but to the whisperer hatred, and enmity, and reproach. 18 Justify alike the small and ... ...hou spit upon it, it shall be quenched: both come out of the mouth. 15 The whisperer and the double tongue is accursed: for he hath troubled many that... ...all upon the Most High to grant him his life, who was ready to give up the ghost. 32 So the high priest, considering that the king might perhaps suspe... ...o Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child, of the Holy Ghost. 19 Whereupon Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing p... ...nto thee Mary thy wife, for that which is conceived in her, is of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ, According to St. Matthew 1261 21 A... ...n I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear; he shall baptize you in the Holy Ghost and re. 12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thor- oughly cleans... ... avarice, wickedness, full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity, whisperers, 30 Detractors, hateful to God, contumelious, proud, haughty, in...

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...y it abroad. In the name of the King!” 23 The Prince and the Pauper The whisperings ceased as suddenly as if the whisperers had been stricken dumb. S... ...ftsoons. An thou would save thy neck, nothing but flight may stead thee. The man is this moment delivering up the ghost. ’Tis the priest, Father Andre... ...! It was a grisly thing, this light touch from this noise- less and invisible presence; it made the boy sick with ghostly fears. What should he do? Th... ...emote, and hollow, and mysterious, that they seemed not to be real sounds, but only the moaning and com- plaining ghosts of departed ones. So the soun...

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...d at the spiriting of several bald diplomatists, van- ished like a morning ghost. Less fortunate than Poland, she left not a regret behind her; and th... ... eternal gesture; here and there the echo of an imitation temple clattered ghostly to the trampling of the mare. Ten minutes brought him to the upper ... ...e would escape. From that world- wide theatre of nodding heads and buzzing whisperers, in which she now beheld herself unpitiably martyred, one door s... ...n, only praises and laments our private destiny. The stars alone, cheerful whisperers, con- fer quietly with each of us like friends; they give ear to...

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...ters of revels, one of the most insinuating lady’s men, one of the softest whisperers of interesting nothings of his day; the bonnes fortunes of De Tr... ...II, dressed with the greatest elegance, and who wore the Order of the Holy Ghost; and this portrait had certain resemblances of lines with Athos, cert... ...ve in them.” “The Bible,” said Aramis, “make our belief in them a law; the ghost of Samuel appeared to Saul, and it is an article of faith that I shou... ...gers, to be sure-one for the Father, one for the Son, and one for the Holy Ghost.” All crossed themselves. D’Artagnan thought it was proper to follow ... ...rotestant by conviction and Catholic as commander of the order of the Holy Ghost; Bassompierre, who was a German by birth and a Frenchman at heart—in ... ...nds that they could not remain quiet in one place, and wandered about like ghosts on the road by which Planchet was expected. “Really,” said Athos to ...

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...sman, the rare Arabian Nights, with Cassim Baba, divided by four, like the ghost of a dreadful sum, hanging up, all gory, in the robbers’ cave. Which ... ... could not repress a fixed and stony glare, as if her eyes had rested on a ghost. Mr Pecksniff also became thoughtful at those moments, not to say dej... ...company with fire-ladders. There were churches also by dozens, with many a ghostly little churchyard, all overgrown with such straggling vegetation as... ...it would assuredly have been paramount to all other considerations. ‘Well, ghost!’ said Mr Jonas, dutifully addressing his parent by that title. ‘Is d... ... with the faint vibration of their own tongues, but newly resting from the ghostly preachment ‘One!’ The earth covered with a sable pall as for the bu... ...n the face of Jonas Chuzzlewit; and when at last he laid his hand upon the whisperer’s mouth, appalled, lest any syllable of what he said should reach...

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....” And now the lids sank and the heads reappeared; I had marked three, the whisperers, and I did not scruple to take a very steady look at them as the... ...s king; she had imagined the wintry forest, she had recalled the old Saxon ghost-legends, she had appreciated Alfred’s courage under calamity, she had...

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... lived, an hundred threescore and fteen years. 8 Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was g... ...fe of Ish- mael, an hundred and thirty and seven years: and he gave up the ghost and died; and was gath- ered unto his people. 18 And they dwelt from ... ...ays of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years. 29 And Isaac gave up the ghost, and died, and was gathered unto his people, being old and full of da... ...manding his sons, he gathered up his feet into the bed, and yielded up the ghost, and was gathered unto his people. Chapter 50 And Joseph fell upon hi... ...from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? 12 Why did the knees prevent me? or why... ...etousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inve...

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...the obstinacy with which he pursued it, occasioned altercation between the whisperers. Maxwell at length let out the words, ‘ A good fright; and so se... ...f of so poor a contrivance, to evade the word pledged by your friend, your ghostly father, in my behalf. I may have been a fool for trusting it too ea... ...I heard it from the lips of one who professed receiving it from those of a ghost-seer. This was a Highland lady, named Mrs. C— of B—, who probably bel... .... BLAWING, flattering. BLEEZING, bragging. BLUE-CAP , a Scotsman. BOGLE, a ghost, a scarecrow. BON VIVANTS, lovers of good living. BONA ROBA, a showy ...

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...ovetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, in... ...ot ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us. 6 For when we were yet without strength, in... ...ruth in Christ, I lie not, my conscience also bearing me witness in the Holy Ghost, 2 That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart. 3 ... ...God is not meat and drink; but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. 18 For he that in these things serveth Christ is accept able to G... ...eace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost. 14 And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye als... ... ing up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sancti fied by the Holy Ghost. 17 I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in th...

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...f those wordes, which their love may afford my memory; Here I am mine owne Ghost, and rather affright my beholders, than instruct them; they conceive ... ...nwealths. Twentie rebellious drums make not so dangerous a noise, as a few whisperers, and secret plotters in corners. 18 JOHN DONNE The Canon doth n...

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...dren, and the ship foundered. He returns, but his place is filled; he is a ghost here, and I object to ghosts.” “Some work might be found for him.” “I... ...en were sought in marriage. With yonder old gentle- man it may have been a ghostly hair or a disease of the optic nerves; but for us it is a real grow... ...s fel- lows at hazardous leaps in public, he was additionally a pol- ished whisperer, a lively dialoguer, one for witty bouts, with something in him—c... ...d?” “Perfectly.” “Strong?” “I was never better.” “It was the answer of the ghost of the wicked old man’s wife when she came to persuade him he had one... ...pped. But he’d do it in a groan, so that it wouldn’t count for more than a ghost of one; and everything goes on the stage, since it’s only the laugh w... ...unction: for the astonishing sweetness of the couple when no more than the ghosts of them have come together in a projecting mind is an intoxication b...

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...uestion with the Gover- nors of France is: Shall extreme unction, or other ghostly vi- aticum (to Louis, not to France), be administered? It is a deep... ...ly help; what sorrow hadst thou mercy on? Do the ‘five hundred thou- sand’ ghosts, who sank shamefully on so many battle-fields from Rossbach to Quebe... ...hen dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Caesar... ...aphtha-lighted City of the Dead, with here and there a flight of perturbed Ghosts. O poor mortals, how ye make this Earth bitter for each other; this ... ... was on Saturday night that he, drawing his last life-breaths, gave up the ghost there;—leaving a world, which would never go to his mind, now broken ... ...d carriers, of Half-pay braggarts from the Cafe Valois, of Cham- bermaids, whisperers, and subaltern officious persons; fierce Patriotism looking on a...

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...GER CASEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 THE GHOST OF ROGER CASEMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 THE O’RAHILLY... ...ays with mirth were crowned; And still I dream he treads the lawn, Walking ghostly in the dew, Pierced by my glad singing through, My songs of old ear... ...ors of Heaven, and beat The doors of Hell and blow there many a whimpering ghost; O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host Is comelier tha... ...fe, yet for the sake RESPONSIBILITIES 101 Of a new friend he has turned a ghost. What does he cate if my heart break? I call for spade and horse and ... ...ave lost.’ ‘What care I if you sleep or wake? But I’Il have no man call me ghost.’ ‘Say what you please, but from daybreak I’ll sleep another century.... ...EMS OF W.B. YEATS THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE While I, from that reed throated whisperer Who comes at need, although not now as once A clear articulation ...

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...like some grim ap- parition, rushes each day and night with mysterious and ghost- like punctuality; holding its swift and headlong course in all weath... ...g look, “to fritter away the time in gewgaws which shall raise up the pale ghosts of hopes of early years. Bury them, heap penance and mortification o... ... the dissolution of the sugar; and his amiable helpmate mixed Nicholas the ghost of a small glassful of the same com- pound. This done, Mr and Mrs Squ... ...y figures in quest of franks, flit restlessly to and fro like the troubled ghosts of Complete Letter-writers departed. This is Manchester Buildings; a... ...sper his neighbour, or a little group would whisper together, and then the whisperers would nod fiercely to each other, or give their heads a relentle... ... a box in his waistcoat pocket. There was something very impressive in the ghostly air with which all this was done; and as Mr Knag was a tall lank ge...

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...like some grim ap- parition, rushes each day and night with mysterious and ghost- like punctuality; holding its swift and headlong course in all weath... ...g look, “to fritter away the time in gewgaws which shall raise up the pale ghosts of hopes of early years. Bury them, heap penance and mortification o... ... the dissolution of the sugar; and his amiable helpmate mixed Nicholas the ghost of a small glassful of the same com- pound. This done, Mr and Mrs Squ... ...y figures in quest of franks, flit restlessly to and fro like the troubled ghosts of Complete Letter-writers departed. This is Manchester Buildings; a... ...sper his neighbour, or a little group would whisper together, and then the whisperers would nod fiercely to each other, or give their heads a relentle... ... a box in his waistcoat pocket. There was something very impressive in the ghostly air with which all this was done; and as Mr Knag was a tall lank ge...

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...of men, The God of men, Against the mischief of the stealthily withdrawing whisperer, 1 Who whispereth in man’s breast– Against djinn and men. 1 Sata... ...er respects of a similar na- ture” (Lane’s Modern Egyptians, i. 285). “The ghosts of dead persons are also called by this name” (ib. 289). 8 Or, befo... ...37 Gabriel. Muhammad either knowingly rejected the di- vinity of the Holy Ghost, or confounded Gabriel announc- ing the conception, with the Holy Spi...

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...old, and what I call creepy. Do you ever fancy that perhaps you will see a ghost some day?’ ‘I don’t think I shall ever see a ghost; but all the same ... ...en here alone in the dark, but I am beginning to think I shall never see a ghost now. I am losing all my ro- mance, and getting to be an old woman. Do... ...et timorous,’ continued Lily. ‘We can walk about without be- ing afraid of ghosts, robbers, wild bulls, young men, or gyp- sies. Come the field path, ... ...oans of the old fiddle were now known through the household. They were the ghosts of the melody of days long past. He imag- ined that his visits to th... ...quocunque modo’ was whispered into the ear in a club smoking-room, and the whisperer intended that his words should prevail. Lady Lufton had often hea...

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...ne myself drifting down the river on a strong spring-tide, to the Hulks; a ghostly pirate calling out to me through a speaking-trum- pet, as I passed ... ...amation – as it now appears to me, something like a religious cross of the Ghost in Hamlet 24 Great Expectations with Richard the Third – and ended w... ...at was hidden in cob- webs. Sarah Pocket conducted me down, as if I were a ghost who must be seen out. She could not get over my appearance, and was i... ..., there certainly were a peck of orange- peel. Partickler, when he see the ghost. Though I put it to yourself, sir, whether it were calc’lated to keep... ...work with a good hart, to be continiwally cutting in be- twixt him and the Ghost with “ Amen!” A man may have had a misfortun’ and been in the Church,... ... yourself?” Equally in his stopping at the bars and attend- ing to anxious whisperers – always singly – Wemmick with his post-office in an immovable s...