The shifting mirages seemed like the ghosts of dead armies, magnified and transfigured, huge and spectral, moving along the horizon and bearing the wind-tossed phantoms of golden blood-stained banners.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Returning to the window, she saw such fearful phantoms in the darkness that she ran, bareheaded, into the street, and up the hill to her father's house.
"The Mystery of the Locks"
Edgar Watson Howe
Local information there is none, but I have spoons and phantoms, and so-who knows!
"From Edinburgh to India & Burmah"
William G. Burn Murdoch