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  • adjective Alternative spelling of phantasmal.

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Examples

  • Over all, like a fantasmal mirage, he saw the dark, triumphant face of Prince Arpello of Pellia.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • Over all, like a fantasmal mirage, he saw the dark, triumphant face of Prince Arpello of Pellia.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There was no break or falter in the rhythm of his oars; he might have been a fantasmal oarsman, rowing her across the dark lake of Death.

    The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There was no break or falter in the rhythm of his oars; he might have been a fantasmal oarsman, rowing her across the dark lake of Death.

    The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

  • There was no break or falter in the rhythm of his oars; he might have been a fantasmal oarsman, rowing her across the dark lake of Death.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • Over all, like a fantasmal picture, he saw the dark, triumphant face of Prince Arpello of Pellia.

    The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

  • There was no break or falter in the rhythm of his oars; he might have been a fantasmal oarsman, rowing her across the dark lake of Death.

    Conan the Freebooter Howard, Robert E. 1968

  • To grasp the shadowy and fantasmal form of a book, to hold it fast, to turn it over and survey it at leisure -- that is the effort of a critic of books, and it is perpetually defeated.

    The Craft of Fiction Percy Lubbock 1922

  • The reader feels that the wild, fantasmal imagery is in itself a kind of language, and that it in some way expresses a brooding thought or passion, the terror and despair of a lost soul.

    Initial Studies in American Letters 1886

  • The reader feels that the wild, fantasmal imagery is in itself a kind of language, and that it in some way expresses a brooding thought or passion, the terror and despair of a lost soul.

    Brief History of English and American Literature 1886

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