phantasma

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And yet, after a week that included a shooting, massive wildfires, and a doctored White House video presented as truth, Fleck’s exuberant phantasma made about as much sense as anything else.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 15, 2018

The sound of this man's voice, so lusty, ringing, and healthful, served to scatter before it the phantasma that yet haunted Glyndon's memory.

From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron

With eyes tight closed one may conjure up the phantasma of green leaves waving and of meadows knee-deep with lush grasses and starred with ox-eyes.

From The Gates of Chance by Sutphen, Van Tassel

The influence of the incomprehensible phantasma which hovered about Lord Byron has been more or less felt by all who ever approached him. 

From The Life of Lord Byron by Galt, John

Between the acting of a dreadful thing       And the first motion, all the interim is       Like a phantasma or a hideous dream.

From Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution by Waller, Alfred Rayney