What is "phantasms"

Usage examples of "phantasms".

Meekly, sorrowfully, the phantasms did as they were commanded, each moving away from its corpse, each standing as near as it dared without risking the ire of the necromancer.

Their phantasms, drifting restlessly behind the cadavers, had eyes that retained the wisdom and knowledge of the living.

But his gaze shifted from the cadaver to the phantasms, those pathetic, shadowy forms always hovering near their bodies, within reach, yet unable to touch.

Those that were fighting were being battered into shapeless heaps of bones and armor over which their phantasms wavered and twisted with pleading, outstretched wisps of arms.

Barely distinguishable from the mist around them, the phantasms trailed disconsolately after the cadavers.

Or perhaps the mist around them was made up of nothing but phantasms belonging to those whose bones had sunk into the ground and would never rise again.

Their phantasms, barely visible, stirred as if shaken by a hot wind, Alfred could almost feel their agitated whisperings breathe against his cheek.

Even the faint plaintive moaning of the phantasms sunk into stillness.

The dead obeyed, the cadavers ceased their hollow cries, the phantasms hushed their endless moaning.

The phantasms directing the Hairy Men were in the same mold and of similarly insubstantial fabric, but the scale of this semblance had deceived her.

Now phantasms prowled the timber mat and drove the brutish humans with gestures and eyes which smoldered like live coals.

Beyond the fringe of branches and yellowing foliage, Hairy Men crouched and phantasms laughed silently.

Directed by the phantasms, the new rowers brought those ships that had drifted a distance from the raft back against its ragged margins.