Lady Sarah, apprehension and triumph contending in her agitated spirits; for it was surely a feather in her ladyship's cap to have produced such a phantasmal train at her party.
I am the phantasmal bell of tradition and of legend that swings alone on All Souls’ Night, rung by an invisible hand.
We remember it when phantasmal pictures of bright Damascus, or of colossal pyramids, of bazaars in Stamboul, or lengthened caravans that defile slow amidst the sands of Araby, have sated the wondering gaze.
Out of still duskier, more darkly glowing and phantasmal depths stared the great eyes of space, rimmed about with rainbow-dyes.
Terrible indeed in its beauty, its power, its calm, was this fiery phantasmal form beside the king of the Sidhe.
His dream changed; he went forth no more but shut himself up in his palace with his wisest princes, and as he took counsel with them, the phantasmal and brilliant towers without faded and fell away as a butterfly droops its wings.
On the lake where the Sidhe dwell the fishers row by and see nothing, or, mayhap, a flicker of phantasmal trees around the dun.
Sunshine succeeds the shadow passed away; Our faces, which phantasmal grew and false, Are all that felt it: they change round you, turn Truly themselves now in its vanishing.
When he dies, thisphantasmal personality fades away, and the author lives only in the impression created by his own literature.
There are also phantasmal visions which are merely the illusions of an estranged mind.
There are also phantasmal visions, which are illusions of an estranged mind.
The sun is already low, and yellow with a tinge of orange: as he falls between the palms his stare colors the world with a strange hue--such a phantasmal light as might be given by a nearly burnt-out sun.
Impossible and phantasmal as was this form in nature, its mystical meaning in the human mind was terribly real.
His appearance realized the phantasmal ideas which we form of inspired beings as we read the prophesies of the Bible.
This phantasmalappearance she called the projection of the astral form.
Vague, phantasmal and unreal, To our thoughts he seems, Walking in a world ideal, In a land of dreams.
It is as though you are living on the slopes of some vast volcano whose eruptions may at any moment submerge all this phantasmal life in a sea of molten lava.
But the voice of war that has broken in upon our peace fades when we are once more on the move over the downs, and the visions it has brought with it seem unreal and phantasmal in their serene and sunlit world.
My guide pointed to the constellation of Perseus, and I could discern a nebulous mass of considerable diameter from which proceeded a wisp-like exhalation, just a phantasmal fan of phosphorescence, behind it.
Of life and death, of happiness and woe, Of all that chequers the phantasmal scene That floats before our eyes in wavering light, Which gleams but on the darkness of our prison, Whose chains and massy walls 195 We feel, but cannot see.
The manure heap near the doorway presented an effect of unreality, the pig-pen seemed to have suffered witchery since the evening before, and the haystack, looming vaguely in the drab distance, appeared to be woven of some phantasmal fabric.
That afternoon she walked with him far across the fields, and they laid together phantasmal foundations of their future lives.
It was such ineffable relief to find himself looking out upon the world of mortals instead of into the black phantasmal abysses of his own complicated frightful structure.
My child, you are talking sentiment, which is the distraction of our modern age in everything--a phantasmal vapour distorting the image of the life we live.
Such thoughts came to my mind when I asked the Housekeeper whether she had ever seen any of the phantasmal apparitions of her mistress, my hostess, Mrs. M.
She did not believe in ghosts or phantasmal bodies or such like things, but one thing she knew beyond all possibility of doubt.
There is something behind thesephantasmal apparitions; there is a real substratum of truth, if we could but get at it.
Hardly had he descended the ravine when the phantasmal Rhoda rose from the rocking chair, with the child in her arms, and lay down on the threshold.
The theory that the phantasmal body is occasionally detachable from the material frame accounts for this in a fashion, and that is more than can be said for any other hypothesis that has yet been stated.
All the family collected--twelve in all--and they all saw the phantasmal Rhoda and Lucy, the real Rhoda and Lucy standing beside them.
In all the cases I have yet mentioned the departure of the phantasmal body is accompanied by a state of trance on the part of the material body.
As tophantasmal bodies, she would prefer to see them first.
Of her premonitions and dreams I could give you many instances; but as that is not the point at present, I will give you the narrative of her other faculty, that of seeing spiritual or phantasmal forms which were not visible to others.
The first says she has almost complete control over her movements, but for the most part her phantasmal envelope is invisible to those whom she visits.
Every day I live," sighed Kenelm, "still more confirms my conviction that real life is a phantasmal sham.
For the moment, therefore, I will leave the question aside and say no more of those three haunting eyes or the phantasmal scenes upon the magic screen.
For three weeks Davidson remained in this singular state, seeing what at the time we imagined was an altogether phantasmal world, and stone blind to the world around him.
I seemed to bring myself back by the effort, and the odd phantasmal quality passed into the concrete familiar.
Herbert even went so far as to plead guilty, when Grisel gave him the cue, of having a little heightened and overcoloured his story of the restless phantasmal old creature that haunted their queer wooden hauntable old house.
For Alice stood gazing stirlessly on and on into this infinitely strange, infinitely familiar shadowy, phantasmal face.
Sometimes this element becomes quite dominant; phantasmalfigures are seen; or there may be a prolonged symbolical representation of an entry into the spiritual world.
But they need not therefore be wholly cut off from discerning material things, any more than incarnate spirits are wholly cut off from discerning immaterial things--thoughts and emotions symbolised in phantasmal form.
But the point on which I would here lay stress is that phantasmal sounds--even non-articulate sounds--may be as clear a manifestation of personality as phantasmal figures.
From that level the traceable connections get weaker and weaker, until we come to phantasmal scenes where there is no longer any even apparent claim to the contemporary agency of human spirits.
His horse was of course as purely a part of the phantasmal picture as his hat.
The point of view from which he seems to himself to be surveying some phantasmal scene.
If it can get at phantasmal percepts outside the organism, may it not get at material percepts also?
Again, we cannot any longer take for granted that it will be cognisant only of phantasmal or immaterial percepts.
Again, my hypothesis of a real modification of a part of space, transforming it into a phantasmogenetic centre, applies to a phantasmal voice just as well as to a phantasmal figure.
The gas was burning low, and the phantasmal figure was seen with far more clearness than a real figure would have been.
