"Spook" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nerves again. If you were normal, the mere fact that you thought you saw a spook dog would n't leave you in this shape. Come over here ...
— The Seventh Noon • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... for two days, when one of the clerks in the office said that a spook was monkeying with the clock. They tried the plan of locking the case, and ...
— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard
... You are not at all interesting, but you are truthful, and we spooks hate libellers. Just because one happens to be a thing is no reason why writers should libel it, and that's why I have always respected you. We regard you as a sort of spook Boswell. You may be dull and stupid, but you tell the truth, and when I saw you in imminent danger of becoming a mere grease spot, owing to the fearful heat, I decided to help you through. That's why I'm here. Go to sleep now. I'll stay here and keep you ...
— Ghosts I have Met and Some Others • John Kendrick Bangs
... should say it was quite enough, and nothing could be more wonderful than what really happened. A Water-devil is one of two things: he is real, or he's not real. If he's not real, he's no more than an ordinary spook or ghost, and is not to be practically considered. If he's real, then he's an alive animal, and can be put in a class with other animals, and described in books, because even if nobody sees him, the scientific men know how he must be constructed, and then he's no more than a great many other wonderful ...
— The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories • Frank R. Stockton
... funny to you," he commented. "After taking so much we'd spook like crazy animals and hightail for the woods over not ...
— Eight Keys to Eden • Mark Irvin Clifton
... photographs is the easiest of all possible frauds. I have spent many a half hour doing the faking myself, with an amateur photographer, by sitting for so many seconds in a chair and then vacating it in favour of some other "spook"! ...
— Seen and Unseen • E. Katharine Bates
... are far more scared than you," he murmured with a laugh. "Cruel and courageous as they are, they dare not face a spook." ...
— The Wings of the Morning • Louis Tracy
... of cases which may be called veracious, occurs when the ghost seer, after seeing the ghost, recognises it in a portrait not previously beheld. Of course, allowance must be made for fancy, and for conscious or unconscious hoaxing. You see a spook in Castle Dangerous. You then recognise the portrait in the hall, or elsewhere. The temptation to recognise the spook rather more clearly than you really do, is considerable, just as one is tempted to recognise the features of the Stuarts in the royal ...
— The Book of Dreams and Ghosts • Andrew Lang
... leprechaun, Cluricaune^, troll, dwerger^, sprite, ouphe^, bad fairy, nix, nixie, pigwidgeon^, will-o'-the wisp. [Supernatural appearance] ghost, revenant, specter, apparition, spirit, shade, shadow, vision; hobglobin, goblin, orc; wraith, spook, boggart^, banshee, loup-garou [Fr.], lemures^; evil eye. merman, mermaid, merfolk^; siren; satyr, faun; manito^, manitou, manitu. possession, demonic possession, diabolic possession; insanity &c 503. [in jest, in science] Maxwell's demon. [person possessed by a demon] demoniac. Adj. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... school children playing in the cellar of the building in Hydesville known as the "Spook house," where the Fox sisters heard the wonderful rappings. William H. Hyde, a reputable citizen of Clyde, who owns the house, made an investigation and found an almost entire human skeleton between the earth and crumbling cellar walls, undoubtedly that of the wandering pedlar whom it ...
— Hydesville - The Story of the Rochester Knockings, Which Proclaimed the Advent of Modern Spiritualism • Thomas Olman Todd
... stopped to listen, then, reassured, continued to pick his tortuous way. Suddenly there was an ominous rustling in a thicket just behind. He broke into a headlong flight across and over everything, when the startled grunt of a hog revealed the prosaic nature of this spook. Scarcely any other sound could have been more reassuring. The animal suggested bacon and hominy and hoe-cake, everything except the ...
— Taken Alive • E. P. Roe
... "Let him spook about and eaves-drop," said Fabens, "I owe him nothing, but pity for his disposition, and I would say all I have said, and more, to his face. There is one comfort! God has power to give him a better heart, and I hope ...
— Summerfield - or, Life on a Farm • Day Kellogg Lee
... How it iver got out to O'Grady's pew in th' burryin' ground, I'll niver tell ye, an' th' Lord knows; but wan evenin' th' ghost iv O'Grady come back. Flaherty was settin' in th' parlor, smokin' a seegar, with O'Grady's slippers on his feet, whin th' spook come in in th' mos' natural way in the wurruld, kickin' th' dog. 'What ar-re ye doin' here, ye little farryer iv pants?' he says. Mrs. O'Grady was f'r faintin'; but O'Flaherty he says, says he: 'Be quite,' he says, 'I'll dale with him.' Thin ...
— Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen • Finley Peter Dunne
... the door. It's Tom, and Hilda is with him. I turn off the television set—I've lost track of what's happening, and it doesn't seem to be the grandfather who's the spook after all. It's the first time Hilda has been to our house, and Tom introduces her around. Then there's one of those moments of complete silence, with everyone looking embarrassed, before we all start ...
— It's like this, cat • Emily Neville
... no commonplace suburban spook Content to rap on table-tops; he cherished The memory of days when at his look Princes and peers incontinently perished; Stuck in his heart a jewelled knife dripped red; Flames had been known to ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 8, 1914 • Various
... in a choked voice, "at last I am quite mad. Look! there stands the spook of young Allan, the son of the English predicant ...
— Marie - An Episode in The Life of the late Allan Quatermain • H. Rider Haggard
... Americans with curious wonder. They chanced in their broken tongue to commit the story of the treasure to a diver of an equally simple faith, who set about putting it to more practical use than to gild an hour with an old legend. They told how the spook of the Spanish captain haunted the wreck, and that the gold was guarded by a dragon in the shape of a monstrous horned and mottled frog, or some other devil of the sea, to which the diver did seriously incline, but not to make him give up the undertaking. ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XII, No. 28. July, 1873. • Various
... continued through several centuries. We must remember that, according to Helbig, the Ionians, colonists in a new country, "had no use for ghosts." A fresh colony does not produce ghosts. "There is hardly an English or Scottish castle without its spook (spuck). On the other hand, you look in vain for such a thing in the United States"—spiritualism apart. ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang
... trying to remember something; and whenever he takes a particularly long look he is always sure to turn around and say to the man at the nearest desk, 'What d' y' s'pose ever became of that hose-pipe spook used to haunt this place?' And the man at the nearest desk he'll look up and nibble at the end of his pen-holder, or maybe he'll get up and have a look out of the window at the Cabinet playing tennis, and after a ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... that the spook had altered for his own good reasons the daily course of his life and eagerly awaited a visit that never ...
— Norman Ten Hundred - A Record of the 1st (Service) Bn. Royal Guernsey Light Infantry • A. Stanley Blicq
... the truth, he was nettled by Confucius's demeanor. "I didn't know, however, but that since you escaped from China and came here to Hades you might have fallen in love with some spirit of an age subsequent to your own—Mary Queen of Scots, or Joan of Arc, or some other spook—who rejected you. I can't account for ...
— A House-Boat on the Styx • John Kendrick Bangs
... girl. "I want to talk to you too about this absurd spook scare. It's mostly among you intermediates, and the sooner you get it out of your silly heads the better. Pity you can't find something more sensible to talk about. Why don't you read, and fill up your ...
— A harum-scarum schoolgirl • Angela Brazil
... know about dress, even when they are poetesses? Look at your friend, the authoress of the "Willow Wreath." What a spook that woman is! Where does she get those ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various |
