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
His shadow proves he was no ghost; but a ghost was never ghostlier than he.
"Oxford Lectures on Poetry"
Andrew Cecil Bradley
No Australian Bushman cares to camp in an abandoned homestead, or even near it-probably because a deserted home looks ghostlier in the Australian Bush than anywhere else in the world.
"Joe Wilson and His Mates"
Henry Lawson