The sycamores formed a ghostly ring around an empty darkness.

Brim frowned, noting the uninterrupted succession of ghostly rings spreading from the ship's tall KA'PPA tower-something was definitely up.

In the far distance, black against Algol's ghostly ring of light, he could see a line of trees; turning his face to the stinging wind, he began to walk toward them.

For a moment Eddie could see Chevin of Chayven's floating teeth like a ghostly ring of coral, and then they were gone.

Forgotten glasses, left by wine drinkers, leave ghostly rings, proof of engagement with life.

And then a faint, ghostly ring lit up all around the planet: sunlight refracted through the dense air.

The two figures were surrounded by a ghostly ring of man-sized, russet stones that stood erect and caught the morning sun like sentinels who had been standing guard all night.

Image right: This Hubble Space Telescope composite image shows a ghostly "ring" of dark matter in the galaxy cluster Cl 0024+17.

Fusing hydrogen made a ghostly ring of light around his ship.