Lexicographical Neighbors of Phantomy
Literary usage of Phantomy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"... without distinguishing a phantomy pair of thick black brows and straight
crimson lips that might be mulberry-stained, or worse ? ..."
2. A Glossary of Words Used in the Dialect of Cheshire by Egerton Leigh (1877)
"PETTY, s.—Little house, privy, from the French petit, little. PHANTOM, adj.—Weak.
" Horses are very phantomy at this time of year" (Autumn). ..."
3. The Second Part of Goethe's Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1886)
"Spread wavelike far and wide: phantomy reappearance Of that all-anxious night—dread
night of deepest sorrow. How oft doth it repeat itself! ..."
Other Resources:
