It was like nothing so much as the phantasmagoricplay of the northern lights.
Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit to relieve itself by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.
The flickering candle light, warring with the fireglow, and its play of ruddy Lights and deep phantasmagoric Shadows, lent size and weirdness to Mr. Betterton's figure and enhanced the dignity and magnitude of his Presence.
The Lights from the Candles assumed weird and phantasmagoric Proportions till they seared my aching Eyes.
And the whole time there were comings and goings, a phantasmagoric array of eerie figures continually passed to and fro before my hazy eyes.
I was like a man flying through the phantasmagoric happenings of a dream, knowing neither how nor whither.
Unequal as Two Years Ago is, and weak in parts, it still has admirable passages; and Hereward to some extent recovers the strange panoramic and phantasmagoric charm of Hypatia.
He may fall short of the poetic grandeur of Sir Thomas Browne, of the phantasmagoric charm of De Quincey at his rare best, of the gorgeous panoramas of Mr. Ruskin.
One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend, partaking not so rigidly of the spirit of abstraction, may be shadowed forth, although feebly, in words.
For a moment, he was closer to despair than at any other time in the whole phantasmagoric adventure.
The phantasmagoric effect was vastly heightened by the artificial introduction of a strong continual current of wind behind the draperies--giving a hideous and uneasy animation to the whole.
All is gray shadow--a weak and irregular remembrance--an indistinct regathering of feeble pleasures and phantasmagoric pains.
The landscape is highly picturesque and the phantasmagoriceffects of the rarified atmosphere are bewitching.
The air was soft and tremulous with a magical light that produced startling phantasmagoric effects.
Clever as was Robertson's ghost illusion, performed by the aid of the phantasmagoric lantern, it had one great defect: the images were painted on glass and lacked the necessary vitality.
All these wonders were perpetrated through the medium of a phantasmagoric lantern, which threw images upon smoke.
Possibly, it was an instinctive device of her spirit, to relieve itself, by the exhibition of these phantasmagoric forms, from the cruel weight and hardness of the reality.
The end of her who sought a dale Below a weird, dungeoned well, That coffins sunken battle-decks And a phantasmagoric hearse.
One of the phantasmagoric conceptions of my friend, partaking not so rigidly of the spirit of abstraction may be shadowed forth, although feebly, in words.
The second subgenus gave us some Didactylus specimens three to four decimeters long, streaked with yellow, their heads having a phantasmagoric appearance.
There I saw numerous iron undersides, the phantasmagoric ruins of steamers, some lying down, others rearing up like fearsome animals.
It seems like a phantasmagoric city with no real foundations, resting upon a cloud, a heavy cloud, whereon gigantic sheep, with necks enlarged by a thick brown fleece, move inoffensively.
