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Definition of Fantasms
1. fantasm [n] - See also: fantasm
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fantasms
Literary usage of Fantasms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"Yes," added he, " we have many examples to show that certain fantasms may rise
before a man, and pester and plague him not a little; but this is bodily ..."
2. German Romance: Specimens of Its Chief Authors by Thomas Carlyle, Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, Jean Paul (1841)
""Yes," added he, "we have many examples to show that certain fantasms may rise
before a man, and pester and plague him not a little ; but this is bodily ..."
3. The Early Religion of Israel as Set Forth by Biblical Writers and Modern by James Robertson (1892)
"... therefore, this England of the year 1200 was no chimerical vacuity or dreamland,
peopled with mere vaporous fantasms, . . . but a green solid place, ..."
4. The French Revolution: A History. In Three Volumes. by Thomas Carlyle (1837)
"Man awakens -from his long somnambulism ; chases the fantasms that beleaguered
and bewitched him. Behold the new morning glittering down the eastern steeps; ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Jackson, D.D. ...: Sometime President of Corpus Christi by Thomas Jackson (1844)
"The same fantasms which by floating in our brains breed dreams by night, ...
No man that reads their writings but will perceive many fantasms or models of ..."
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