Ghost
The spirit; the soul of man.
The disembodied soul; the soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death; an apparition; a specter.
Any faint shadowy semblance; an unsubstantial image; a phantom; a glimmering; as, not a ghost of a chance; the ghost of an idea.
A false image formed in a telescope by reflection from the surfaces of one or more lenses.
To die; to expire.
To appear to or haunt in the form of an apparition.
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Ghost Quotations
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Charles Dickens
Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.
Rabindranath Tagore
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken
O Death, rock me asleep, bring me to quiet rest, let pass my weary guiltless ghost out of my careful breast.
Anne Boleyn
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Francis Bacon
God does guide the lives of individuals and does fill them with the Holy Ghost.
Robert Duvall
As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.
George Whitefield
The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof.
Thomas Hobbes
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
Ghost Translations
ghost in Afrikaans is gees, spook
ghost in Dutch is blinde, blinde bij kaarspel, geest
ghost in French is revenant
ghost in German is Geist, Gespenst, Geist
ghost in Italian is fantasma
ghost in Latin is phasma phasmatis
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