fantom
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"Simplified spelling" made its debut on Jan. 28, 1934, and schoolteachers all over the Middle West found themselves fighting to save pupils from such Tribisms as hocky, fantom and definitly.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lovely fantom becomes Faust's paramour and bears him a remarkable son called Justus Faustus.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
Society is a tissue of pretense: convention a fleeting fantom.
From Reno — a Book of Short Stories and Information by Lilyan Stratton
They traversed great portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, everywhere inflicting and enduring misery, but never approaching their fantom El Dorado.
From Great Epochs in American History, Volume I. Voyages Of Discovery And Early Explorations: 1000 A.D.-1682 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
Gevrol and the governor of the prison were right, then, and M. Segmuller and he, Lecoq, were senseless fools, pursuing a fantom.
From Monsieur Lecoq by Émile Gaboriau
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