I will but say it was old-fashioned to her heart's content; that it seemed full of shadowy histories, as if each succeeding occupant had left behind an ethereal phantasmic record, a memorial imprint of presence on walls and furniture-to which she now was to add hers.
"Weighed and Wanting"
George MacDonald
He shrunk none the less, however, from such phantasmic presence as Sefton had described; a man's philosophy made but a fool of him when it came to the pinch!
"Home Again"
George MacDonald
The question of phantasmic apparitions, and the development of astral bodies, was of course quite a different matter, and really not under his control.
"Humorous Ghost Stories"
Dorothy Scarborough