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She will be delighted to meet a kindred spirit," Miss Bellingham added, with a smile. "I don't know that I claim spiritual kinship with a ghoul," said I; "especially such a very sharp-tempered ghoul." "Oh, don't disparage her, Doctor Berkeley!" Miss Bellingham pleaded. "She isn't really bad-tempered; only a little prickly on the surface.
Either he must stay or go back with the haunting conviction that this hungry-eyed old fiend who could strum with diabolic skill upon the sensitive strings of his very soul, would propel himself in his wheel-chair to the stairway, there to sit like a ghoul at the top. Rain beat in Kenny's ears like a trumpet of doom. He felt sick and dizzy.
Your Christian Rome, in the superb metaphor of Hobbes, was but the ghost of Pagan Rome, sitting throned and crowned on the grave thereof; nay, a ghoul, feeding not on the dead limbs of men, but on their living hearts and brains. Look at your Cross!
It is a simply and quaintly executed kneeling figure, with a certain quiet and pathetic reverence of pose that is strangely restful against the serried vulgarity around it. But the tradesman ghoul will not leave us; he follows us up and down, indecently clamouring his name and address, and at last turns our meditation to despair. Certain stock devices become as painful as popular autotypes.
It was hard pulling, but I was strong and reckless, fearing neither man nor elements. Every minute of that forenoon brought with it an increasing fury of the storm; every minute greater volumes of water lashed and dashed into the Bay, until, away out, The Ghoul looked more like a waterspout than a black, forbidding rock.
He is a good one good!" Three of the others stood and grinned, now that their first shock of surprise had died away. The fourth man poked among the packs. There was little to see except gleaming teeth and the whites of eyes, set in hairy faces in the mist. But Ismail danced all by himself among the stones of Khyber road and he looked like a bearded ghoul out for an airing. "Hee-yee-yee!
While we were watching here for his supposed appearance and the revelation of his treachery, some rascals had locked him in a cellar." The lieutenant's words were hot and angry. He felt that he was facing two clever rascals, whose cunning was too much for his straightforward methods. "You you amaze me!" exclaimed old Mr. Harding, looking in the moonlight like some hideous old ghoul.
'He used to look at me like that at first, said Attley, with a visible shudder, 'but he gave it up after a bit. It's only because you're new to him. 'But, confound you! he's a ghoul I began. 'And when he gets quite well, you'll send him back to her direct with your love, and she'll give you some pretty four-tailed goldfish, said Mrs. Godfrey, rising. 'That's all settled. Car, please.
A stone's throw out on either hand From that well-ordered road we tread, And all the world is wild and strange; Churel and ghoul and Djinn and sprite Shall bear us company to-night, For we have reached the Oldest Land Wherein the Powers of Darkness range. From the Dusk to the Dawn.
To-day he found himself without a cent. He had answered the last advertisement just as the thousand windows sprang to renewed life. It was a position as shipping clerk in a large department store. After waiting an hour to see the manager, a double-chinned ghoul with the eyes of a pig, he had been dismissed with a glance. "Thank you," said Wilson. "For what?" growled the man.
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