Gastly
"Gastly" in a Sentence (10 examples)
[E]uen in ſléepe ſome ſpice of imagined malice gnaweth him, combering his ſoule with ſpirites of miſchiefe, making his bodie gaſtly and his minde afrighted with trouble, and appearing vnto men as it were with a pernicious ſpirite, and pouring out of poiſõ.
She tolde him, that there was lately buryed (néere to the place where ſhe was honoured) a ſinfull perſon, whiche ſo offended her eye with his gaſtly grinning, that vnles he were remoued, ſhe could not, but (to the great griefe of good people) withdꝛawe her ſelfe from that place, and ceaſſe her wonted miraculous woꝛking amongſt them.
Gaſtly amazement, with vpſtarted haire, / Shall hurry on before, and vſher vs, / Whil’ſt trumpets clamour, with a ſound of death.
In this their Extaſie, the lookers on inceſſantly warble out ſoft trembling Muſique, till ſuch time as the boyes ariſe, who anon (as from a diuine trance) raiſe themſelues and lie downe againe ſome what more leaſurely, then ſuddenly in great haſt and feare with gaſtly amazed lookes, vibrate a readie ſword againſt the beholders.
From the Subſtantive Ghoſt by the Addition of ly, comes the Word Ghoſtly, that is, Spiritual, p. 172. l. 9. which is now alſo more frequently uſed. Hence alſo comes gaſtly, terrible, frightfull, like a Ghoſt, or like a dead Corps; for a gaſtly Look is chiefly ſaid of the Countenance of a dying Perſon.
And with theſe woꝛdes, the voyce was ceaſt and gone, / And at the gaſe I gaſtly quaking ſtood: […]
But ſee, his face is blacke, and full of blood: / His eye-balles further out, than when he liued, / Staring full gaſtly, like a ſtrangled man: […]
Why ſtop you on the ſudden? why go you not? What makes you looke ſo gaſtly towards the houſe?
[A]s he was putting the bottle to his mouth, he ſaw a poor Souldier carryed along, who had eaten his laſt at the ſame Feaſt, gaſtly caſting up his eyes at the bottle.
[H]is Noſe was entire and full, not ſharp, as in thoſe that are gaſtly ſick or quite dead: and yet Cuntius his body had lien in the grave from Feb. 8. to July 20. which is almoſt half a year.
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