phantasm
noun
an apparition or specter.
phantasmally
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a word derived from
phantasm.
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a word derived from
phantasmal.
Example Sentences
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There, indeed, the season seems to have returned, and in the boxes of the playhouses and the stalls fashion phantasmally revisits one of the scenes of its summer joy.
From London Films by William Dean Howells
The ship loomed phantasmally in the clear dusk, with a regular and stately swaying of her pale heights.
From A Marriage at Sea by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
Beneath the sun's expiring, ghastly light, The dead world lay, phantasmally aglow; Its last fear-weighted voice, a wind, came low; The distant sea lay hushed, as with affright.
From The Star-Treader and other poems by Clark Ashton Smith
I passed the first at a distance of a quarter of a mile; it slided by phantasmally, and another stole out right ahead.
From The Frozen Pirate by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
Again, you saw the top of a cab bowling along, but no horse: phantasmally.
From The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath
