She meant something quite different, she said, her eyes closing again, that ghost of a smile still there as she slipped into sleep.

So strongly was she with me, I had a moment of fear, as if her ghost had slipped into the room.

The ghost of Edith slipped away, leaving his arms empty.

Her mother sank down next to her, a child's ghost slipped from the shadows.

A ghost of a moon slipped in and out of the clouds enabling them to stay on course.

She was about to speak, when the ghost slipped its hands on her from behind, the cold edge of an invisible blade pressing against her throat.

And about them the ghosts of dead Demornte slipped by unheeded.

(This is exactly the kind of thought a Marías narrator is always having; you can see how easily the ghosts slip in.)

He separated himself from the emotions as a ghost slips from a dying body.

The room suddenly went cold, as though a ghost had just slipped through the doorway and was now hovering right behind her.