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Example sentences for "phantoms"

Lexicographically close words:
phantasms; phantastic; phantastical; phantasy; phantom; pharaon; pharisaical; pharmaceutic; pharmaceutical; pharmaceuticals
  1. Hurried on by phantoms too indistinct to be now recalled, I wandered from my chamber to the desert.

  2. No signs of furs yet," cried Fritz, who was every now and then levelling his rifle at the phantoms on shore.

  3. From the first day of his imprisonment the people and life seemed to him to have turned into an incomprehensibly terrible world of phantoms and automatic puppets.

  4. What is more, death seemed to have been destroyed completely in this insane world of phantoms and puppets, having lost its great and enigmatic significance, becoming something mechanical and only for that reason terrible.

  5. Every where we behold mortals obstinately attached to phantoms from which they expect their happiness; notwithstanding these fallacies are evidently the source of all their sorrows.

  6. But as they rise into definiteness, intelligence, individuality, the phantoms rise also into love and joy.

  7. I have assumed that these phantoms coincided with no marked event.

  8. Independent records must be made on each side, of all attempts made, and of all phantoms seen.

  9. In spite of all his efforts the demon urged them on to still greater crimes by showing them phantoms of those who had been executed, pretending that he had resuscitated them and would resuscitate all who might be put to death.

  10. The order was obeyed--the sacrifice performed--and the phantoms were seen no more.

  11. He now knew what sleepless nights were, and days haunted by the phantoms of memory, and slight rustling sounds of hideous import.

  12. This direct contact with the phantoms of the executed set a wind of terror blowing and bowed all heads.

  13. Between these two phantoms in front the sable swarm outspreads.

  14. What becomes of those phantoms of tranquil pride, the will and prudence?

  15. If he fell into a slumber, he beheld in his dreams the shadowy phantoms of the necromantic tower, or the injured Florinda, pale and disheveled, imprecating the vengeance of Heaven upon his head.

  16. He beheld direful phantoms glaring and gibbering around him, and heard the sound of pursuit in the echoes of his footsteps.

  17. It is in this valley-region, amid these mists, beneath these clouds, that these monsters and phantoms are born.

  18. The phantoms whom we are endeavoring to destroy do not exist; they are all imaginary.

  19. It was known to the priests of Baal, and it is known to the modern ecstasy dancers who cut themselves to produce objective phantoms who dance with them.

  20. Yet there was not a breath of wind: she banish'd These phantoms with a nod.

  21. Like a city, round the Sun: Beyond these clouds, ere the phantoms part, Thou wilt lean in bliss on my loving heart.

  22. And it may be such dreams are given In mercy by indulgent Heaven, To solace them that mourn: The absent bless our longing sight, The future shows than truth more bright, And phantoms of expir'd delight Most passing sweet return.

  23. Yet these painted phantoms were most appropriate inhabitants of this desolate abode; real living people would have seemed out of place in the death-stricken house.

  24. For a single night an appearance of life pervades these phantoms of real things.

  25. Unthinking stupidity cannot sleep, without being appalled by phantoms and shaken by terrors.

  26. Then the death of Sita was bewailed; or that of Cama, slain by Iswara, and committed to the waves on a chest, like Osiris and Bacchus; during which the candidate was terrified by phantoms and horrid noises.

  27. Photographs are the colourless phantoms from which these glowing life-like beauties start.

  28. If each man's forehead could project its shadows and the light of his spirit shine through, and the confluence of figures and phantoms that cross and march behind it become visible, how that magic-lantern might appal good easy people!

  29. Explain how two phantoms may be joined by a physical circuit.

  30. Two Phantoms Joined by Physical Circuit] A circuit may be built up by adding a physical circuit to a phantom.

  31. In the obscurity he at first heard the plashing of the fountains without being at all able to see them, but on approaching he at last distinguished the slender phantoms of the ever rising jets which fell again in spray.


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