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phantom

/ˈfæntəm/ adjective B1
  1. Illusive.
  2. Fictitious or nonexistent. · a phantom limb
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Thus the terrible secret, which Beauchamp had so generously destroyed, appeared again like an armed phantom; and another paper, deriving its information from some malicious source, had published two days after Albert’s departure for Normandy the few lines which had rendered the unfortunate young man almost crazy.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 864 · C1
Again the phantom city burns;
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 18 · C1
The phantom armies marching go!
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 18 · C1
Our phantom voices haunt the air
A Child's Garden of Verses, p. 24 · C1

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