Phantoms
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Examples
- The two ships becalmed on a torpid sea, I believed to be marine phantoms. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Let me stand aside, to see the phantoms of those days go by me, accompanying the shadow of myself, in dim procession. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hence my bewilderment at the phantoms of chairs, and the wraiths of looking-glasses, tea-urns, and teacups. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Here, under the quiet stars, these old streets seem thronged with the phantoms of forgotten ages. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- There is a dread, unhallowed necromancy of evil, that turns things sweetest and holiest to phantoms of horror and affright. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- With this difference, that being realities and not phantoms, there is the greater danger of their breaking in. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Edited by Jimmy