fantasies

Example Sentences

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Think what it was to me to see them land in the dusk, fantasms from the sea—apparitions, chimeras!

From Victory An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph

They had been shooting at only fantasms of their own brains.

From The Flying Legion by England, George Allan

But at lowest, O dilettante friend, let us know always that it was a world, and not a void infinite of gray haze with fantasms swimming in it.

From Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. by Carlyle, Thomas

The Thought conducts not to the Deed; but in boundless chaos, self-devouring, engenders monstrosities, fantasms, fire-breathing chimeras.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

But at lowest, O dilettante friend, let us know always that it was a world, and not a void infinite of grey haze with fantasms swimming in it.

From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas