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«Rain hangs about the place, like a friendly ghost. if it's not coming down in delicate droplets, then it's in buckets; and if neither, it tends to lurk suspiciously in the atmosphere.»
Author: Barbara Acton-Bond
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atmosphere, buckets, droplet, droplets, ghost, hangs, lurk, suspiciously, tends to
«Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.»
Author: Marva Collins
(Educator)
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calling together, ghost, Ghost in, haunted, Have You, meant, might-have-been, They Live, The Haunted, The Haunting
«[Referring to why the ghost town is built so far away] Because they're stupid! That's why everybody does anything»
«So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus.»
«SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks. One of the most illustrious spookers of our time is Mr. William D. Howells, who introduces a well-credentialed reader to as respectable and mannerly a company of spooks as one could wish to meet. To the terror that invests the chairman of a district school board, the Howells ghost adds something of the mystery enveloping a farmer from another township.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss, / Which sucks two souls, and vapours both away,/ Turn thou ghost that way, and let me turn this, / And let our selves benight our happiest day.»
Author: John Donne
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benight, breaking away, breaking off, break away, break off, ghost, lamenting, selves, so-so, sucks, vapours
«Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell about something that's on its mind and can't make itself understood, and so can't rest easy in its grave, and has to go about that way every night grieving.»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
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every night, ghost, go about, grieving, woods