People have wondered by what fit of imagination George Sand, when telling such a wholesome story of country life, should evoke the ghastly vision of Holbein's Dance of Death. It is the close of day, the horses are thin and exhausted, there is an old peasant, and, skipping about in the furrows near the team, is Death, the only lively, careless, nimble being in this scene of "sweat and weariness." She gives us the explanation of it herself. She wanted to show up the ideal of the new order of things, as opposed to the old ideal, as translated by the ghastly dance.英文原著 · 《George Sand》
"See these mournful spectres sweeping Ghastly o'er this hated wave, Whose wan cheeks are stained with weeping; These were English captains brave. Mark those numbers pale and horrid, Those were once my sailors bold: Lo, each hangs his drooping forehead While his dismal tale is told.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Despite sickness and Rome's strict order, Isom had ridden down to the mill. Standing in the doorway, he and old Gabe saw up the river, where the water broke into foam over the ford, a riderless gray horse plunging across. Later it neighed at a gate under Wolf's Head, and Martha Lewallen ran out to meet it. Across under Thunderstruck Knob that night the old Stetson mother listened to Isom's story of the fight with ghastly joy in her death-marked face.英文原著 · 《A Cumberland Vendetta》
'Twas but a few seconds before she and Osmonde were close enough to him to mark his fallen face and ghastly pallor, and a strange dew starting out upon his brow.英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
Some day her passion would leap up, she would tell him, they would be face to face, injured man and taunting woman. Davenant had an ugly vision as he sat there. He saw the man's eyes catch fire, the muscles of his face twitch, he saw Ernestine shrink back, white with terror and the man followed her. "Cecil! Aren't you well? you're looking positively ghastly!"
He pulled himself together - it had been a very realistic little interlude. "Bad headache!" he said, smiling. "By the by, I must go!"
"If you ever did such a thing as work," she remarked, "I should say that you, had been doing too much.英文原著 · 《A Millionaire of Yesterday》
"Du Bruel looked ghastly at this. Two days afterwards we met in the /foyer/ at the Opera, and took a few turns together. The conversation fell on Tullia.英文原著 · 《A Prince of Bohemia》
Cupe Robinson III. I think you're just ghastly, and I was against this whole caper from the bell.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
I want to play cricket, I want to eat crumpets and I want to use the word "ghastly".美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
Absolutely. You deserve a break after all that ghastly business you've been through lately.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
He's simply ghastly, apparently, but he's promised to propose today.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》