phantasm

• Except for the "Democratic Republic" and its phantasm-driven "Göbbels service", no one can find the satellite. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
• My years on campus have been a flitting phantasm-a blurred mirage of blue and buildings used to shade in the gaps between real life away from Duke-real life thanks to Duke. —  The Chronicle
• The sun burst suddenly through a rift in the flying clouds, and his golden radiance fell incongruously upon the scene Ethel gazed as at some horrid phantasm--the rough men with gaudy shirts of red and blue and multicolored checks, standing in groups with tense, set faces--the other man--_her man--standing alone, silent and smiling, by the side of his blood-bathed victim, and the old crone, whose marcid form writhed in the swing of the thin-shrieked chant And then before she sensed that he had moved he stood before her. —  The Promise A Tale of the Great Northwest
• This phantasm is everywhere in this book. —  The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier
• Like the generality of people who are psychic and who have never had an experience of the superphysical, my conception of a phantasm was a "thing" in white that made ridiculous groanings and still more ridiculous clankings of chains. —  Animal Ghosts Or, Animal Hauntings and the Hereafter

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