spectral

• The ghastly remnants of that fearful feast lie around in the moonbeams--human bones, picked clean, yet expressive in their shape, spectral, as though they would fain reunite, and, vampire-like, return to drain the life-blood of these human wolves who devour their own kind. —  The Sign of the Spider
• In the harbor the yachts stood out white and spectral, and afar the sea ruffled her night-caps. —  The Lure of the Mask
• I air satisfied with him.... Let's go home And, silently, as a spectral fleet, the boats lapped their way back, edging the shore carefully Far into the night Satisfied Longman and the tired mother waited for their boy He'll show up to break'us," soothed the father; but the mother trembled with terror. —  Tess of the Storm Country
• Looking upon the vague, indefinite vista, as it glimmered away into an indefinable distance, one seemed really to stand Where Alp, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless by man Down to a shoreless sea Seating ourselves carefully in the boat, our silent boatman, like a spectral gondolier, rowed us silently along the labyrinthine canals of this dim and ghostly Venice. —  France and the Republic A Record of Things Seen and Learned in the French Provinces During the 'Centennial' Year 1889
• The black walls of the different dwellings rose up dreary and solemn, with spectral-looking pipes dimly projecting from them. —  Frank Oldfield Lost and Found

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