Harold Wilson had become a ghostly figure when this book was published in 1992.
Another is Deborah Riley's "Her Familiar," a ghostly figure in transition to an otherworldly state.
But for the most part bin Laden remains a ghostly figure in his own story.
He is, then, a ghostly figure, for all that he is seemingly invincible.
To the other students, I was a ghostly figure, whose status was something of a mystery.
A mist descended over the rodeo, and a ghostly figure appeared.
But just when all seemed lost, down the path came the drenched and ghostly figure of Second Lt.
Everything became very quiet in the control room as the ghostly figure, white on a white ground, against a dark sky, touched what seemed like white rigging.
National Gallery, London A ghostly figure is seen advancing – or departing – in Susan Burnstine's photograph, taken on her uniquely customised camera.
She floats through the novel like a ghostly figure, a damsel in distress that Byron and James attempt to save from the consequences of her unwitting mistake.
A cast aluminum sculpture by Thomas Schütte, "Grosse Geist No. 15," an eight-foot-tall sculpture of a ghostly figure, sold to a telephone bidder for $3.6 million.
