ghostship

That cargo could turn Enterprise into a ghostship.

The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

However, nothing has been heard of his ghostship of late, and it may be that the materialistic spirit of the present age, which does not know a ghost when it sees one, has sent him off to some more happy haunting ground.

The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Charles Gilbert Hine

Well, Maudie, you may tell the babes that we juniors, their natural guardians, will take care of his ghostship if possible this very night; if not tonight then tomorrow at M.

Jane Allen, Junior Edith Bancroft

Madame Flamingo, pale and weary, is first to rush for the door, shrieking as his ghostship turns his grim face upon her.

An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith

Evans might go if well paid, if he were certain papa would remain too; but another doubt was started; Davy had talked of taking some cattle to a fair some miles off, and might be gone: however, it turned out, that he was on hand, and agreeable to go, with the understanding, that he was to have his money, even if papa was conquered by the ghost, or had to run for his ghostship.

A Book for the Young Sarah French

Charlotte believed in her, but did not care about her ghostship.

The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Various

After a considerable stay, the two clergymen consulted together, and determined that it was useless to watch any longer for that night, but that they would meet on some other, when perhaps it might please his ghostship to appear.

The Spectral Coach of Blackadon 1921

Both Smoit and Sylvia protested that any such radical step would be superfluous, since Jurgen's ghostship was to be transient.

Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918

They stood for a moment motionless, looking straight at one another; then the smile died out on his face, but he still strove to speak lightly, using effort, like a man with a dream dark upon him: "I am waiting for your pretty ghostship."

The Firing Line 1899

She found him in his own cosey room drinking whiskey -- whiskey undiluted -- and felicitating himself upon having foiled her ghostship, when all of a sudden the curl went out of his hair, his whiskey bottle filled and overflowed, and he was himself in a condition similar to that of a man who has fallen into a water-butt.

The Water Ghost and Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892