spiritlike

It was not the plot that made the original ballet so powerful but the Wilis, who were among the earliest dancers to perform on point, appearing to skim the ground and, harnessed to invisible wires, to fly spiritlike above it.

Those island stories often contained jumbies: scary, spiritlike creatures that took various forms.

"Very well, then," he said, "the Erl-King addresses the child; Erl-King is a spirit, a ghost—so play this place in a spiritlike way, ghostly, if you will, but not ghastly with false notes!"

The gold of her mantle seemed one with the gold of the candle rays, and, for many a silent watcher, those gliding, gleaming, spiritlike forms will move forever down a shining path in memory.

According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.