phantom

• The strongest possibility is that Mary suffered from pseudocyesis, a rare psychological condition commonly known as a phantom preg­nancy. —  TheChildrenof
• One lawmaker, Sen. Abel Maldonado, R-Santa Maria, spent $1.4 million in campaign cash that he raised on what can only be described as a phantom race. —  AroundTheCapitol.com
• (That's why the headline I saw yesterday was "The Phantom of the Oprah" - Palin is a mere "phantom" -- an apparition - who doesn't exist in Oprah's on-air world.) —  Latest Articles
• What had been a flourishing cattle country was a boneyard where the agents of fertilizer factories bargained for skeletons XXVI Some towns go out in a night And some are swept bare in a day But our town like a phantom island Just faded away Some towns die, and are dead But ours, though it perished, breathes And, in old men and in young dreamers Still, glows and seethes From Medora Nights Roosevelt returned from Europe on March 28th The loss among the cattle has been terrible [he wrote Sewall from New York early in April]. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
• A lamp was burning in the room, and the young fellow was perfectly visible at the same moment as the phantom which stood and bowed three times What did it look like It looked like a man's figure swathed in some white drapery. —  The Shadow World

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