Quotes About Ghastly

Ghastly gray light congealed on the land

Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace.

In the Spirit Building there are thousands upon thousands of jars containing fish or snake, octopus or lobster, pickled to the life. ... As you slide the doors back upon this pallid parade of containers and bottles your voice automatically loses decibels. You reflect: mortality, this is your sad face; you defy decay only as a ghastly pickle.

O, I have pass'd a miserable night,So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams,That, as I am a Christian faithful man,I would not spend another such a night,Though 'twere to buy a world of happy days.

Tanith: Serpine is used to the Elders taking forever to make their calm, thought-out decisions. So he won't be expecting anything as amazingly rash and reckless as this Ghastly: That'll teach him to underestimate stupid people.

And Ghastly became aware of Ravel's eyes, brimming with tears, those eyes that had many a lady swooning over him down through the centuries. Those golden eyes.

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

A ghastly attempt at a smile, sure to send any normal person to a therapist.

just a pied-à-terre that he uses for business entertaining, but it's tastefully done in wall-to-wall money. And the colors are smart—in a ghastly way. I've used Eggplant, Spinach, and Overripe Melon.

Innocents, the meat in a ghastly sandwich between an uncaring society and a vengeful state.

In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function

I must be besotted," he said evenly. "I have the imbecilic idea that you're the prettiest girl I've ever seen. Except for your coiffure," he added, with a disgusted glance at the coils and plumes and pearls. "That is ghastly." She scowled. "Your romantic effusions leave me breathless.

"Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore—Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!"Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

Television has some lovely aspects to it - and some ghastly aspects - but the theater itself was a wonderful invention.

The corpse sat up, ghastly in the moonlight, and held out its withered hand.

Maybe what makes life so terribly fatiguing is nothing other than the enormous effort we make for twenty years, forty years, and more, to be reasonable, to avoid being simply, profoundly ourselves, that is, vile, ghastly, absurd.

The mariners all 'gan work the ropes, where they were wont to do: They raised their limbs like lifeless tools - We were a ghastly crew.

Symphony of malice, symphony of madness coming through the walls, philosophy straining to contain the ghastly images, the torture, to surround it with language Ã¢â'¬Â¦

Good God! It is horrible! He is no better than a mummy!

It was all quite ghastly and I was very fond of it.

Oh, I'm dying,' I like moaned. 'Oh, I have a ghastly pain in my side. Appendicitis, it is. Ooooooh.' 'Appendy shitehouse,' grumbled this veck.

But that's ghastly old Chepstow. Drunk as a lord again!' 'If that's Chepstow he is a lord,' objected Dedham, trying to turn for a better view. 'He's entitled, you might say.

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.

The ritual worked. That is the most ghastly thing. I hold no particular brief for the rationality of the world, but that this vile obscenity should actually have the power to bring back the dead seems to me not merely a sign that the world is not rational, but that it is in fact entirely insane, a murderous lunatic gibbering in the corner of a padded cell.