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 Howells, William Dean

Again, you saw the top of a cab bowling along, but no horse: phantasmally.

From The Voice in the Fog by MacGrath, Harold

The dot crept on, took strange new shapes that 111 changed phantasmally, then vanished behind the curtain of which for a passing moment it had been a part.

From When the West Was Young by Bechdolt, Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie)

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 Smith, Clark Ashton

The ship loomed phantasmally in the clear dusk, with a regular and stately swaying of her pale heights.

From A Marriage at Sea by Russell, W. Clark (William Clark)