Not as a vulture, but a dove,
The Holy Ghost came from above. [ Longfellow, after Fuller ]

A temple of the Holy Ghost, and yet
Of lodging fiends. [ Pollok ]

No ghost was ever seen by two pair of eyes. [ Carlyle ]

Bigotry murders religion to frighten folks with her ghost. [ Colton ]

If you raise one ghost, you will have the churchyard in motion. [ Proverb ]

It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. [ Longfellow ]

A real friend is somewhat like a ghost or apparition; much talked of, but rarely seen. [ C. Buck ]

Thrice I attempted to throw my arms round her neck there, and her ghost, thrice clutched in vain, eluded my grasp. [ Virgil ]

An idea, like a ghost (according to the common notion of ghosts), must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself. [ Charles Dickens ]

There is a sweet anguish springing up in our bosoms when a child's face brightens under the shadow of the waiting angel. There is an autumnal fitness when age gives up the ghost; and when the saint dies there is a tearful victory. [ Chapin ]