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Meanings of ghostly apparition in English

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Usage of ghostly apparition in English
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For a long time the ghostly apparition had ceased to trouble him.
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
2
Thrice he breaks water, a white and ghostly apparition from the deep.
The Forest
3
The ghostly apparition thinned and lengthened into the shape of a knife.
Nocturnal
4
Indistinctly seen in the moonlight, the woman resembled a ghostly apparition.
The frog princess
5
The double doors opened soundlessly, and the ghostly apparition reappeared.
The fifth servant
6
Wilson, on seeing the ghostly apparition approach, breaks into song:
The Citizen-Soldier / or, Memoirs of a Volunteer
7
Before them Errastas, still in his bowing pose, was fading, like a ghostly apparition.
Forge of Darkness
8
Again it arose, that ghostly apparition, and filled the dark sky above the little graveyard.
Pee-wee Harris on the Trail
9
There was nothing tenuous, elusively subtle, or impenetrably mysterious any longer about the ghostly apparition.
Campfire Girls at Twin Lakes; Or, The Quest of a Summer Vacation
10
He still had the call sounding in his ears, and gazed in amazement at the ghostly apparition.
Pelle the Conqueror — Volume 04
11
The ghostly apparition wrought me to frenzy.
Strange Visitors / A series of original papers, embracing philos...
12
A gnawing voracity, which devoured the devourer, seemed to be the indwelling and propelling power of the whole ghostly apparition.
Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women
13
But the cool- headed man quickly perceived the real nature of the ghostly apparition, and leading Maria forward exclaimed smiling:
The Burgomaster's Wife — Volume 03
14
He, too, felt awe, not at any ghostly apparition but because the priest had come suddenly at such a time.
The Free Rangers: A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississipp...
15
When she returned to her home and went out onto the patio again, she saw the same ghostly apparition once more.
Ghosts
16
Soshu of China, in a dream, assumed your shape;-Sakokuof Japan, after dying, took your form, and therein made ghostly apparition.
Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
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