Gets to Breslau on the 3d of August; thence to Strehlen, consulting much with Hyndford upon this phantasm of a compliance.
These words were accompanied with threatening gestures and marks of great anger;" considerably staggering to the Two Diplomatic British gentlemen, and of evil omen to Robinson's phantasm of a compliance.
I was like a man suddenly roused half-way through a vivid entrancing dream, unable still to believe that the real is true and the phantasm not the only substance.
When we sit down and reflect we are apt to become the prey of a curious delusion; pain seems to us the only reality, pleasure a phantasm or a dream.
How he stands, That phantasm of a man--who is not thou!
This pleasure, taken in the imagination of power to part with that which we have no intention of parting with, is one of the most curious though commonest forms of Eidolon, or Phantasm of Wealth.
It is, then, one of these Sirens whom Dante takes as the phantasm or deceitfulness of riches; but note further, that she says it was her song that deceived Ulysses.
Their conception of infinite space and time is, as Leibnitz calls it, a mere idol of the fancy, a phantasm representing nothing real.
But you have nothing more; and if you fancy there is anything more, such as space and time in the abstract, you have a phantasm or idol of the imagination, which is nothing.
A certain imperial dignity attaches to them long after they have ceased to reign: over the brows that have worn worthily the diadem there still hangs the phantasmof a shadowy crown.
And it is not a thin simulacrum he raises by some doubtful alchemy: it is no phantasm of the past that shines dimly before us in these magical pages; it is the very time itself in which we are merged.
The phantasm is called coincidental if it represents a known and distant person who is later found to have been dying or in some other crisis at the moment of the percipient's experience.
A phantasm is that which, not being a true counterpart of reality, is yet so like it as to be mistaken for reality.
The images or phantasm of sense must be painted on the mind before any words are written upon it if we are to adopt both these metaphors).
The phantasm seen by Carter the housemaid, on the night of April 27th, who was described as "rather old," may possibly have been identical with the above.
I was barely able in the dusk to distinguish the figure from my post on the west bank, but the phantasm appeared very near him, as I could distinguish the white pocket-handkerchief in his breast pocket.
He was told to go to the farther side of the burn, and to stand under the sapling, which is at some little distance from the spot where the phantasm usually appears.
This subject has been already discussed, and the suggestion thrown out that the phantasm was an erroneous mental picture of the late Rev.
Settled the Silesian-Duchies Claim, by the temporary Phantasm of a Gift of Schwiebus.
The phantasm represents, merely, a sort of impersonal wraith, and, as such, cannot be expected to possess intelligence or human characteristics.
Experience had bred no fancies in him that could raise the phantasm of appetite.
These Elohim proved to be the phantasm of the dead Samuel.
This particular example of Elohim was a phantasm of the dead, but Elohim is also used of the highest Divine Being, therefore the highest Divine Being is of the same genus as a ghost--so Mr. Huxley reasons.
Of course, the shadow in the sunlight does not resemble the phantasm in a dream.
I give an instance in which the philosophy of savages would lead them not to connect a phantasm of a living man with his death.
She ran to bring witnesses, but on her return the phantasm was no longer visible.
Guyau actually illustrates the Resurrection of our Lord by an American myth about a criminal, of whom a hallucinatory phantasmappeared to each of his gaol companions, separately and successively, on a day after his execution!
Why, then, is the phantasm supposed by savages to announce death?
For months I could not rid myself of the phantasm of the cat, and during this period there came back into my spirit a half-sentiment that seemed, but was not, remorse.
Does the procession of nations in time, like the erratic phantasm of a dream, go forward without reason or order?
Is this world an illusion, a phantasm of the imagination?
The moment Letty screamed for help the phantasm vanished.
Entering the garret to which I have already alluded, the phantasm noiselessly approached the hearth, and, pointing downward with a violent motion of the index finger of its right hand, suddenly vanished.
Its head being kept bent, she was unable to see the face in full, but every instant she expected the revelation would take place, and with each separate movement of the phantasm her suspense became more and more intolerable.
From its general contour and the tangled mass of hair that fell about its neck and shoulders, Lady Adela concluded it was the phantasm of a woman.
At the sound of his stentorian voice the phantasm vanished.
On another New Year's Eve she saw the phantasm of a dog, to which she had been deeply attached, enter her bedroom and jump on her bed, just as it had done during its lifetime.
This phantasm is believed to haunt localities that have witnessed crimes, and also to foretell catastrophes.
Will it be simply a phantasmof a dead Celt, or some peculiarly grotesque and awful elemental[1] attracted to the spot by human remains?
There is just as much variety in the tastes and habits of phantasms as in the tastes and habits of human beings, and in the behaviour of both phantasm and human being, I regret to say, there is an equal and predominant amount of inconsistency.
These being sure signs that the corpse was possessed by a vampire, the local bailie was fetched and the usual proceedings for the expulsion of the undesirable phantasm began.
I think," I replied, "that the phantasm was very probably that of a real dog, and that it became genuinely attached to your son.
Something is coming, and, if that something is not the phantasm of him whom I believe is earthbound, whose phantasm is it?
What phantasm of any standing at all would be attracted by such baubles?
And yet, when we are awake, we do not believe that the phantasm was, like the appearances of people in waking life, representative of a private world to which we have no direct access.
A phantasmof our dreams will appear to have a mind--a mind to be annoying, as a rule.
It tortured him in one deranged second for all was a phantasm of the mind and the phantasmagoria of an impermanent existence.
He wanted to tell himself that the brief titillation, so clearly a phantasm of his own making, had not been real.
Among this phantasm of struggling forms and influences (like a man forcing his way through a crowd of masques who mock at him and retard his steps) we fight our way towards the light.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "phantasm" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
