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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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
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 Frederick R. (Frederick Ritchie) Bechdolt
And here, soft wrought in memory's vague designs, Dim semblances her wistful gaze will greet Of lost ones that inthrall phantasmally sweet The mirror's luminous quietude enshrines.
From Rodman the Keeper Southern Sketches by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Again, you saw the top of a cab bowling along, but no horse: phantasmally.
From The Voice in the Fog by Harold MacGrath
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
