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Meanings of poor ghost in English

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Usage of poor ghost in English
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How should I not say: "I will avenge thee, thou poor ghost?"
The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
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Only the poor ghost he seemed of the Hal I had known as a boy.
Paul Kelver
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Was this her comfort in Hades, ' poor ghost'?
David Elginbrod
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To Janie who, Heaven forgive him, will be all that one poor ghost has ever loved!
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
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I don't know what makes the poor ghost walk; and if you do, I shall say you invent.
Robert Elsmere
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She smiled,-sucha poor ghost of a smile as it was!-andanswered feebly, "Let him come; 'Tista."
Dreams and Dream Stories
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Avaunt thee, poor ghost!
The House of Walderne / A Tale of the Cloister and the Forest in...
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We shall try to lay that poor ghost, said Renouard gloomily, going off to a small hut near by to dress.
Within the Tides: Tales
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Now shall the reader know a grief of the poor ghost that speaks to him; a grief, but not a helpless one.
Other Tales and Sketches / (From: "The Doliver Romance and Other...
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She wondered where the great staircase could be where the poor ghost of Queen Joanna sat and shrieked at midnight on the twelfth of May.
Taquisara
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I felt so sorry for him that when I came to the parson's I begged that his poor ghost might be sheltered in the churchyard.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
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They stand largely unnoticed, and very much undefined-poorghosts of the truth among the gibbets.
A Preface to Politics
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There in the Underworld the song of Apollo would not have moved the poor ghosts so much.
Old Greek Folk Stories Told Anew
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The poor ghosts rise from the earth-jealousof those that are still walking the warm ways of the world.
Eleanor
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Already I found, in traversing Mashonaland, that the poor ghosts were ceasing to receive their wonted offerings of native beer.
Impressions of South Africa
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Poor ghosts, poor ghosts!
The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories
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