Word: ghostly
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...comforting to think that there may still be something in the animal world unknown to man. The more credulous scientists are willing to admit that perhaps a few members of an "extinct" species are still "carrying on". Perhaps the Great Auk's ghost may yet return and hatch its phantom...
...wife, interlinked with the plot. Carrying them through the murder of Duncan, he showed the hero becoming more resolute as fate tightened its grip. "Lady Macbeth", went on Professor Kittredge, "is an indispensable support to her courageous, but none too steady, husband. Following the scene with Banquo's ghost, the heroine instills renewed vitality into Macbeth's flagging spirits...
...natural in man to wish to perpetuate himself in the world, and originality of this sort is often his only resource. Always well-meant, and often valuable, still it imposes a difficult burden on those who come after. A will is the most real kind of ghost, one which it is hard to "lay". Any endowed organization has had its difficulties with clauses made to fit one set of conditions, and made inflexible against all change by their binding nature. A simple phrase, "at the discretion of the administrator", makes a will adaptable to circumstances, but testators are sometimes careless...
...dozen other aspersions almost made us believe that there was in fact no longer a cult of authorship in the University. This year such incidents as the publication of "Eight More Harvard Poets" restore some of our confidence, and makes the Yale-and-Football bogey seem a pale ghost. Sixteen poets worthy of the title in the few years since the War would be a respectable garner in itself: and these collections make no pretense to all-inclusiveness...
...from the intention of the board. No opposition from indignant professors, no acceptance and support from the compilers of a dictionary can bar a word from speech and writing nor incorporate another in its place. "It is me" has thrived on learned antagonism. "I'll make a ghost of him that lets me" sounds ridiculous to the average ear. In Shakspere's day such usage was taken for granted; today it survives in the technicalities of law and tennis...