And those two ghastly shapes among the roses-they were the two Scots on the wires summoning him back to his duty; beckoning, beckoning him to return.
The white fire flickered and flared around the creature's ghastly shape, making a clear target.
The shadows of things assumed strange and ghastly shapes.
Beset by lions and tigers, by savages, by thirst, by hunger, by death in a crowd of ghastly shapes, they never - O Father of all mankind, thy name be blessed for it!
The staging for Anne's final scene of madness is most telling: cobwebs on the jail bars take on an abstract, expressionistic thickness, assuming ghostly, ghastly shapes.
Those candidates taken too early, however, could mutate into ghastly shapes fit only for menial tasks; the worst failures were euthanized.
I cast my eyes into the garden of Lindaraxa; the groves presented a gulf of shadows; the thickets, indistinct and ghastly shapes.
Suddenly the broad disk of the moon arose and shone full upon his ghastly and distorted shape as he fled with more than mortal speed.
Impelled by some obscure reason, Conan dismounted and stood looking down at the ghastly shape, knowing that he was witness of a thing miraculous and opposed to nature.
Jack looked again to the cliff-top scrub, to the ghastly shapes that moved within it the enemy's Native allies, naked, painted beasts the lot of'em!