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  • noun Plural form of fantom.

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Examples

  • I have met fantoms and vengeful spirits, and were I to write down all the instances of this kind which I have ascertained to have befallen others I know, the undertaking would be beyond measure laborious and troublesome.

    Revenant Young Geoffrion 2008

  • I have met fantoms and vengeful spirits, and were I to write down all the instances of this kind which I have ascertained to have befallen others I know, the undertaking would be beyond measure laborious and troublesome.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Young Geoffrion 2008

  • To think our government officials are "fantoms to real people" (We the People) create in my awareness levels that I exist only in my dimensional world and not that of those living their reality and not mine.

    Sheldon Drobny: What's Wrong With The Clintons: The Emperor Has No Clothes 2008

  • Nevertheless, these fantoms had appeared silently, and now they must be dealt with.

    Riders of the Silences John Frederick

  • "He demonstrated to him that these fantoms were only harmless vapors, and the city man admired the knowledge which common sense had taught the ignorant one."

    Common Sense, How to Exercise It Mme. Blanchard Yoritomo-Tashi

  • Nea's four fantoms, the Kalis, whining hungrily as they came, their copper hair trailing about them.

    Hunters Out of Space Joseph Everidge Kelleam 1944

  • My assistants with the extinguishers stood firm, and although almost unnerved by the sight, they summoned their courage, and directed simultaneous streams of formaldybrom into the struggling mass of fantoms.

    Humorous Ghost Stories Dorothy Scarborough 1906

  • After some wandering about among the classic fantoms he falls in with Chiron the Centaur, who carries him far away to the foot of Mount Olympus and leaves him with the wise priestess Manto, who escorts him to the Lower World and secures the consent of Queen Persephone to a temporary reappearance of

    The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. Kuno Francke 1892

  • All their fine talk of friendship, with Virtue and The Good, have vanished and flown, who knows whither? they were winged words in sad truth, empty fantoms, only meant for daily conversational use.

    The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece Various 1887

  • The Byzantine epoch has left its imprint in the mosaics of the great nave and the apsis, and in its bloodless and lifeless Christs and Virgins, so many staring specters motionless on their gold backgrounds and red panels, the fantoms of an extinct art and a vanished society.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 7 Italy, Sicily, and Greece (Part One) Various 1885

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