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  • In the Chopiniana scene there is nothing to remind one of the coquetry of the doll in the lovely spirit-like creature who seems to drift on the air like a thistle-down.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • In the Chopiniana scene there is nothing to remind one of the coquetry of the doll in the lovely spirit-like creature who seems to drift on the air like a thistle-down.

    Further Pavlova 2009

  • When I opened my eyes I saw white lightning zoom through the air in a circular motion, spirit-like, maybe 20 feet away from my bedroom window.

    Lightning storm Annette 2009

  • The player controls a spirit-like person who must be brought into the real world to get to the pleasuredome.

    3 games that epitomize the 1980s 2009

  • On the one hand all things are capable of becoming more spirit-like, that is, more refined qua spiritual substance.

    Lady Anne Conway Hutton, Sarah 2007

  • Kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.

    Tao Te Ching 2002

  • Kingdom is a spirit-like thing, and cannot be got by active doing.

    Tao Te Ching 2002

  • Someone in that condition may find that when his human body is unconscious or in some way inactive, the spirit-like part of his nature will travel about together with his consciousness.

    Extra-bodily States in Buddhism Tsenzhab Serkong Rinpoche I 1976

  • Tom remembered a German picture of an angel which he knew; often had he thought how transparent and golden and spirit-like it was; and he shuddered, to think how like it Arthur looked, and felt a shock as if his blood had all stopped short, as he realized how near the other world his friend must have been to look like that.

    Tom Brown's Schooldays Hughes, Thomas, 1822-1896 1971

  • The long-term goal is to get enough nourishment from the spirit-like air to dispense with grains, the products

    LONGEVITY GERALD J. GRUMAN 1968

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