Sentence examples for pair of ghosts from inspiring English sources

But I still think of it as haunted by a pair of ghosts, and I want George to know them both.

The story follows orphan Nobody Owens, or Bod, who is raised in graveyard by a pair of ghosts and a vampire.

Before all hell breaks loose in James's "The Turn of the Screw" — with a pair of ghosts and the satanic possession of two angelic children — the governess-narrator feels a stillness, a "hush in which something gathers or crouches".

Unmentioned in this designation, and consigned to different categories of limbo, were (a) a pair of ghosts, said to have haunted the place for decades, and (b) a ten-room duplex that the impresario David Belasco had built above his theatre in 1909.

It's a clever way to put three characters on stage with only two actors: Speechless, Flora can remain invisible to the audience, along with the palatial old manse, the shimmering lake, the distant tower, and that ornery pair of ghosts, the late valet, Peter Quint, and the late governess, Miss Jessel.

He doesn't recognise them until Kali uses her powers to make them appear as the two girls they were when he knew them, a pair of ghosts in their almost-identical navy pinafore outfits.

There is plenty of sex on show — or, better still, not on show, as two figures, swathed in bedsheets, roil and wrestle like a pair of randy ghosts — but none of it struck me as particularly fou, and, since Harry's rampancy was established at the beginning, his love for Lena could be just another crush.

The built-in ambiguity of the ghost story made it the only form of popular fiction in which James could be entirely himself, and in "The Turn of the Screw" he applied the supernatural to the kind of interpersonal power struggle that in his other works is painfully mundane: the story is about a governess and a pair of malevolent ghosts vying for influence over the minds of two young children.

They also include a couple of ghosts.

Han stayed in Beijing for four years, driving and writing; volumes of his essays included "Press Release 2003" and, in 2005, "And I Drift," as well as the novels "Like a Speeding Youth" (2002), about a pair of struggling ghost writers, and "Riot in Chang'an City" (2004), the story of a reluctant martial-arts master.

In this special X-Mas story, we'll take a look at a pair of my favorite ghosts of agenda-filled games for ye olde NES, so you can get searching on eBay now.