fantasms

These people take the hypothesis of the virtual as a fact and carry it over to visible fantasms.

GreenCine Daily: Jean Baudrillard, 1929 - 2007. 2007

Hooray for these little magical fantasms that contain the elemental power which set the world on fire.

World Famous Design Junkies » 2009 » December 2009

Fictional machinery, equated with the magic lantern or phantasmagoria so popular in public shows of the late eighteenth century, transmits its "moving fantasms" from barren brain to barren brain, a mechanical process of stimulation that turns readers into mechanical effects or machines themselves.

Reading Machines 2005

In his burning gaze Balthus glimpsed and vaguely recognized pristine images and half-embodied memories, shadows from Life's dawn, forgotten and repudiated by sophisticated races - ancient, primeval fantasms unnamed and nameless.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

In his burning gaze Balthus glimpsed and vaguely recognized pristine images and half-embodied memories, shadows from Life's dawn, forgotten and repudiated by sophisticated races -- ancient, primeval fantasms unnamed and nameless.

Conan The Warrior Howard, Robert E. 1973

In his burning gaze Balthus glimpsed and vaguely recognized pristine images and half-embodied memories, shadows from Life's dawn, forgotten and repudiated by sophisticated races -- ancient, primeval fantasms unnamed and nameless.

Conan The Warrior Howard, Robert E. 1967

And when this power of reason within me also found that it was changeable, it raised itself up to its own intellectual principle, [213] and withdrew its thoughts from experience, abstracting itself from the contradictory throng of fantasms in order to seek for that light in which it was bathed.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

My heart cried out violently against all fantasms, [177] and with this one clear certainty I endeavored to brush away the swarm of unclean flies that swarmed around the eyes of my mind.

Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler 345-430 1955

All other orders are varieties of these, or fantasms and grotesques, altogether indefinite in number and species.

The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV Various 1885

These old St. Edmundsbury walls, I say, were not peopled with fantasms; but with men of flesh and blood, made altogether as we are.

Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838