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- noun Plural form of
phantasmagory .
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Examples
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Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
Les Miserables 2008
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All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which is almost indescribable.
Les Miserables 2008
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But, surely, it was a bad bargain to accept such vague phantasmagories.
Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942
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“The phantasmagories of more prodigal and wild imaginations have mingled with the product of Israel's austere spirit.”
Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904
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In this wise was brought about the eventful ride which cost the life of Lucifer, and introduced such heart-stirring phantasmagories into the even tenor of Sir Adrian Landale's seclusion.
The Light of Scarthey Egerton Castle 1889
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"The phantasmagories of more prodigal and wild imaginations have mingled with the product of Israel's austere spirit."
Matthew Arnold George William Erskine Russell 1886
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Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
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All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which is almost indescribable.
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All these things, realities full of spectres, phantasmagories full of realities, had eventually created for him a sort of interior state which is almost indescribable.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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Certain slang phrases which participate in the two epochs and have at once the barbaric character and the metaphorical character resemble phantasmagories.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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