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Definition of Phantoms
1. phantom [n] - See also: phantom
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Literary usage of Phantoms
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1. Poems by Mary Ann Hanmer Dodd (1844)
"phantoms. LIFE is but a changeful story, Of its end we little know ; AH its years
are but a moment, Shadow-like they come and go. ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Charles Robert Cross (1861)
"This process certainly enables us to obtain the general form of the phantoms;
but all physicists can sec that it suppresses the details. ..."
3. Annual of Scientific Discovery: Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, George Bliss, Samuel Kneeland, John Trowbridge, Wm Ripley Nichols, Charles R Cross (1861)
"The paper upon which the phantoms are to be fixed is " waxed " paper. A sheet is
placed over the poles of the magnet in question, anil kept in a liori- ..."
4. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1861)
"ON FIXING MAGNETIC phantoms. The name "phantom" was given by M. de ... The paper
upon which the phantoms are to be fixed is " waxed " paper. ..."
5. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"PART Ш.—phantoms. " Persons, after a debauch of liquor, ... phantoms, then, must
have ready-prepared witnesses, suffering under dyspepsia, or otherwise ..."
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