It was a phantasmal world altogether, the most cheerful feature of it being that at last the snow had ceased to fall.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
At first, indeed, there was something curiously uncanny-something unearthly and phantasmal almost-in the spectacle of these figures, the women in white, the men in black, moving through this wan light; and their voices sounded strangely in the dead silence; but ere long a soft saffron tinge began to show itself in the east; one or two scraps of cloud in the violet skies caught a faint touch of the coming dawn; there was a more generous tone on the masses of foliage, on the flower-beds, and on the grass; and now the cheerful chirping of the birds had begun among the leaves.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black
I am sick at heart because of this woman; I am lost to shame because of my want; And mine own people have come to mean naught to me; And with many about me still am I utterly alone, And quite solitary now I take my way Where men are intent on puny things And phantasmal legions pace!
"Open Water"
Arthur Stringer