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  • Ballard takes no moral angle on this attempt to beat the age-old fact of mortality; instead he affords his subject something of the clinical aura of a modern-day alchemical laboratory as towers of icy steam emerge ghostily from grids of metal piping.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • Ballard takes no moral angle on this attempt to beat the age-old fact of mortality; instead he affords his subject something of the clinical aura of a modern-day alchemical laboratory as towers of icy steam emerge ghostily from grids of metal piping.

    This week's new exhibitions 2011

  • It leaves one with a sense of test tubes and equipment ghostily moving around the lab by themselves doing a bizarre coordinated merengue of inquiry.

    The Pronoun Game 2009

  • September 21, 2008 at 12:43 pm rathur good nite ober here were ai beez ghostily our is awlmus ober… ai jus be laffing away da ghosts wib a liddlol help frum mai cheezfrenz adn how bowt uz?

    psst… - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • As I looked I saw a tall figure moving ghostily among the crumbling tombs, and I shook my head bewilderedly.

    Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006

  • He felt no wind against his face, but there was a rustling of leaves above them and a weird moaning swept ghostily through the branches.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Presently only yellowish shreds hung ghostily in the air; then they were gone, and Taurus motioned his companion forward.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Emerson joined in, the echoes of his hearty mirth rebounding ghostily around the chamber.

    The Mummy Case Peters, Elizabeth 1985

  • He felt no wind against his face, but there was a rustling of leaves above them and a weird moaning swept ghostily through the branches.

    Conan The Warrior Howard, Robert E. 1973

  • The lurid, unearthly glow still hovered in the shadowy chamber, lighting ghostily the dead face of Thugra Khotan, which seemed to grin mirthlessly and cavernously at them.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

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