"Ghoul" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... eats a grain of rice, like Amina in the "Arabian Nights," is absurd and unnatural; but there is a modus in rebus: there is no reason why she should be a ghoul, a monster, an ogress, a ...
— The Fitz-Boodle Papers • William Makepeace Thackeray
... by me, full of anxious and affectionate enquiry, and smoothed the coverlet with her great felonious hand, I could quite comprehend the dreadful feeling with which the deceived husband in the 'Arabian Nights' met his ghoul wife, ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... ghoul or not, there was something the huge beast seemed afraid of and hurried to get away from, or attempted to frighten ...
— Adventures in Many Lands • Various
... ancestor of Nathanael Hawthorne should have been a party to it, holds a suggestion of the tendencies which in the novelist's case, gave him that interest in the sombre side of life, and the relish for the somewhat ghoul-like details, on which he lingered with a fascination his readers are compelled to share. On an old paper still owned by a gentleman of Salem, one may read this catastrophe which has, in spite of court ...
— Anne Bradstreet and Her Time • Helen Campbell
... Nature, Bard Supreme, To fashion kings and lordlings fit to rule; They would be flesh and blood, not fiend and ghoul; And would thou wert her Sun, that every beam Might not, for tally, show a youth's blood-pool, Choking blithe Spring, as, now, ...
— Freedom, Truth and Beauty • Edward Doyle
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