"Ghoul" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shudder shivered through the poor woman's frame at this confirmation of the awful revealment of the previous night; but she replied calmly, though with added sternness,—"He was my husband. How dared you disturb his bones? Are you a ghoul, that you burrow among graves and steal ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 23, September, 1859 • Various
... But this fat ghoul, Langley, sickened me. This shame of the Builder race, this atavism—this beast—rubbed his fat, impractical hands together with an ungod-like glee. "Excellent," he said. "Far, far better, in fact, than I had hoped." ...
— B-12's Moon Glow • Charles A. Stearns
... vials of his wrath. He incited audiences to riot. Against his brother editors he hurled such epithets as "loathsome and leprous slanderer and libeller," "pestilential scoundrel," "polluted wretch," "foul jaws," "common bandit," "prince of darkness," "turkey buzzard," "ghoul." Somehow, in thinking of the old days, I find it hard to reconcile those men and women who lived under the Knickerbocker sway with their newspapers. It is pleasanter to dwell upon the old customs, to picture ...
— Fifth Avenue • Arthur Bartlett Maurice
... canker-worm, wire-worm; locust, Colorado beetle; alacran^, alligator, caymon^, crocodile, mosquito, mugger, octopus; torpedo; bane &c 663. cutthroat &c (killer) 461. cannibal; anthropophagus^, anthropophagist^; bloodsucker, vampire, ogre, ghoul, gorilla, vulture; gyrfalcon^, gerfalcon^. wild beast, tiger, hyena, butcher, hangman; blood-hound, hell- hound, sleuth-hound; catamount [U.S.], cougar, jaguar, puma. hag, hellhag^, beldam, Jezebel. monster; fiend &c (demon) 980; devil ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... to be, Among your solitudes I, dreaming, grope; My life's the shade of unaccomplished hope, My heart's a ghoul that feeds on agony! No strains of music call my tears away, No smiling star illumes the awful night; Ambition weeps; my soul draws without light My ...
— Oklahoma and Other Poems • Freeman E. Miller
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