spiritlike

Example Sentences

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According to Hahnemann, the vigorous shaking transferred the "spiritlike" essence of the medicine to the solvent.

From Time Magazine Archive

Perhaps we should add here that Prometheus is, and probably always will be, a poem for the chosen few who can appreciate its peculiar spiritlike beauty.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph

The gold of her mantle seemed one with the gold of the candle rays, and, for many a silent watcher, those gliding, gleaming, spiritlike forms will move forever down a shining path in memory.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Bates, Katharine Lee

Until the dry weeds seem more beautiful, More spiritlike than even summer's flowers.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

It was usually heard on cloudy evenings, a strange, unearthly, winnowing, spiritlike sound, yet easily heard at a distance of a third of a mile.

From The Story of My Boyhood and Youth by Muir, John