The night was full of torrid heat and fiery light, in which everything looked unnatural, shifting, uncertain, but daylight, when it finally came, was of a crude coldness; under it everything returned to be itself, meager and stationary, and he knew that it was no phantasmagorical Aurora making preparations to wash his face.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall
She had lost her count of time; things were phantasmagorical and unreal; all that she could realise was this one overpowering, crushing fact-John was dead!
"Jess"
H. Rider Haggard
Who dares to think Truth frozen-on this phantasmagorical planet, that whirls in beginningless time through endless space!
"Dreamers of the Ghetto"
I. Zangwill