1091 examples of phantom in sentences

Such are the objections by which Tully has made a shew of discouraging the pursuit of fame; objections which sufficiently discover his tenderness and regard for his darling phantom.

ADAMASTOR, the Spirit of the Cape, a hideous phantom, of unearthly pallor; "erect his hair uprose of withered red, his lips were black, his teeth blue and disjointed, his beard haggard, his face scarred by lightning, his eyes shot livid fire, his voice roared."

England, France, Germany, Russia and America vainly dispatched warships in pursuit of the phantom vessel which disappeared, no one knew whither, after robberies and murders that could not be prevented or punished had been committed by her crew.

On the contrary, her reality is more phantom-like now than it was then.

That phantom greatness of his, it was that lit her eyes.

Earlier still, he had heard a hoot-owl, and encountered through it, his first realization of phantom horrors; he knew then there was an Unseen, and nether acoustics; here was a key to ghostly doors.

Impressed with this idea, he stared wildly around; he called aloud the name of Mithridates; he shouted orders to imaginary troops; he struggled to break away from the restraints which the attendants about his bedside imposed, to attack the phantom foes which haunted him in his dreams.

Confused and doubtfulhalf between The solemn truth and phantom scene, The crowd revere the Power, presiding O'er secret deeps, to justice guiding The Unfathom'd and Inscrutable By whom the web of doom is spun, Whose shadows in the deep heart dwell, Whose form is seen not in the sun!

The phantom with wings of gold.

The phantom with wings of gold.

Don Sturdy on the ocean bottom; or, The strange cruise of the Phantom, by Victor Appleton, pseud.

Phantom fame; as told to David Freedman.

Phantom of Lobo valley.

The phantom of the rivers.

SEE Snell, Le Roy W. Phantom ship.

THE PHANTOM Wilt thou never come again, Beauteous one?

Love is quenched; dreams drown in sleep; Ruin nods along the deep: Only thou immortally Hauntest on This poor earth in Time's flux caught; Hauntest on, pursued, unwon, Phantom child of memory, Beauteous one!

Nought gold where your hair was; Nought warm where your hand was; But phantom, forlorn, Beneath the thorn, Your ghost where your face was.

ARABIA Far are the shades of Arabia, Where the Princes ride at noon, 'Mid the verdurous vales and thickets, Under the ghost of the moon; And so dark is that vaulted purple Flowers in the forest rise And toss into blossom 'gainst the phantom stars Pale in the noonday skies.

And in the sweet Of phantom evening, 'neath the night-bird's lay, Did loved with loved-one meet.

But only a host of phantom listeners That dwelt in the lone house then Stood listening in the quiet of the moonlight To that voice from the world of men: Stood thronging the faint moonbeams on the dark stair, That goes down to the empty hall, Hearkening in an air stirred and shaken By the lonely Traveller's call.

As stars in gathering shadow of the evening Seemed now her phantom face.

And like a phantom through the glades, With tender breast aglow, The goddess in me laughed to hear Your horns a-roving go.

It remains a question, however, which there was no one to put to Faberwhether he had not some amends in relief from the notion, vaguely it may be, yet unpleasantly haunting many mindsof a Supreme Beinga Deityputting forth claims to obediencean uncomfortable sort of phantom, however imaginary, for one to have brooding above him, and continually coming between him and the freedom of an else empty universe.

A phantom of its own!

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