Crossword-Solution: SPOOKS 6 letters, 22 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

All was silence in the dimly-lighted room, whilst the sound of the gavotte, the hum of distant talk and laughter, and the rumble of an occasional coach outside, only seemed to reach this palace of the Sleeping Beauty as the murmur of some flitting spooks far away.

With sullen din the banks caved in; the shore-ice lanced the stream; The naked floes like spooks arose, all jiggling and agleam.

Norton swears that it was not human, and, indeed, from the scratches on his throat, I should be inclined to agree with him." "What, then? Have we come down to spooks?" Abercrombie Smith puffed his scientific contempt.

The officers were terrified, and they started to run away, crying, "For God's sake, that fellow was right; there are nothing but spooks here!" The constable was shrewder, and he stopped the officers, saying he wasn't afraid of the Devil himself.

That man Karl who gave me the diamond, I think he must have died also, at least I saw his spook last night standing over me and shaking his head, and the boys saw it too.” “Oh! be off with your talk of spooks,” I said, “and come back quickly with those oxen, or I promise you that you will die and be a spook yourself.” “I will, Baas, I will!” he ejaculated and departed almost at a run, leaving me rather uncomfortable.