ghostlier

As his songwriting has reasserted itself on a series of pithy and cryptic recent albums the latest, save for a curious Christmas album, being 2009's "Together Through Life", Mr. Dylan has cast himself as an adventurous guitar-slinger and showman, with a voice that keeps getting grainier and ghostlier.

Having a Sonic Summer Andy Battaglia 2011

Coleridge had taken with him to Malta, "when the light of sense/Goes out," other presences and articulations emerge in a "flash" to fill the gap, an "invisible world" or other life of things (Wallace Stevens calls it "ghostlier demarcations") that it was the particular business of Wordsworth, Coleridge, and their age to express.

Introduction 2008

Oh! Blessed rage for order, pale Ramon, The maker's rage to order words of the sea, Words of the fragrant portals, dimly-starred, And of ourselves and of our origins, In ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds.

The End of the Pier Grimes, Martha 1994

As the light in her room grew ghostlier, Princess Sophia's voice became gradually incoherent, dropped to a vague whisper, and finally ceased.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

It wandered further, and finding a golden head that tossed restlessly upon a silk-covered pillow, it alighted on it, making the white face appear ghostlier still, and the wide eyes to shine like stars.

"Unto Caesar" Emmuska Orczy Orczy 1906

Undern grew ghostlier than ever, seeming, as the shots rang out startlingly loud in the quiet, like a moribund creature electrified by blows.

Gone to Earth Mary Gladys Meredith Webb 1904

Standing motionless fifty paces from the little storm-beaten cabin that represented Law at this loneliest outpost on the American continent, he looked like a carven thing of dun-gray rock, with a dun-gray world over his head and on all sides of him, broken only in its terrific monotony of deathlike sameness by the darker gloom of the sky and the whiter and ghostlier gloom that hung over the ice-fields.

Isobel : a Romance of the Northern Trail James Oliver Curwood 1903

Kent found the darkness more fog-like; about him was a grayer, ghostlier sort of gloom.

The Valley of Silent Men James Oliver Curwood 1903

On the other side of the table was a ghostlier form, the faint figure of an antagonist good-humouredly but a little wearily secure -- an antagonist who leaned back in his chair with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his fine clear face.

The Figure in the Carpet Henry James 1879

On the other side of the table was a ghostlier form, the faint figure of an antagonist good-humouredly but a little wearily secure -- an antagonist who leaned back in his chair with his hands in his pockets and a smile on his fine clear face.

Embarrassments Henry James 1879