ghosts

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I was never a bit afraid of ghosts, and my ghosts are apparently a charming set of people.

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  1. noun The spirit of a dead person, especially one believed to appear in bodily likeness to living persons or to haunt former habitats.
  2. noun The center of spiritual life; the soul.
  3. noun A demon or spirit.
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  • But if Zelda and these other catatonics are teaching ghosts, these ghosts are the dumbest jerks anywhere. —  OCTOBER, 1953 Vol
  • Either ghosts are a metaphor for history, or history is a metaphor for ghosts. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 01 - July 1996
  • The Sioux believe in the spirit world, believe in vision quests, ghosts, and communicating with the dead. —  AHMM,July-August2007
  • The street looked deserted; wind whipped trash and dust into clattering ghosts, and the blinking red stoplights danced and swayed along. —  GlassHouses
  • "The police of these white devil ghosts are a bad tiger Monk, who rode in the same car, his head encased in a gunnysack, growled, "If I ever get loose, I'm gonna make somebody think tiger A man leaned forward, selected the spot in the sack where Monk's nose should be, and tapped with a hard brown fist. —  023 - The Mystic Mullah
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