wraithlike

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And out of its foam, wraithlike, rose a marble Aphrodite, white limbed, bathed in light On the topmost of a flight of marble steps a woman sang of love who had defiled it.

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  • Doc Savage was already gone, swallowed up, wraithlike, by the darkness. —  030 - Spook Hole
  • She appeared to have aged years— her body wraithlike, too thin and ashen— her eyes too large for her sunken face. —  New Page 1
  • Father Donovan was wraithlike, impossibly emaciated, his eyes deepset and strangely peaceful. —  Clavell - King Rat
  • Initially the shape was insubstantial, wraithlike, but after a second it became less transparent and more of this world. —  ARTEMIS FOWL is a child prodigy from Ireland who has dedicated his brilliant mind to criminal activities
  • A haze hung over the plateau, smoky and wraithlike, and from that haze the Phyrexians kept advancing. —  Loren L
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