She was as complete a mystery of the ocean night as any spectral fabric, and a heavier terror to me than a Phantasm worked by ghosts could have proved.
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
In the face of that, what was the worth of anything he should recollect now, that he should not discard it as a mere Phantasm, for her sake?
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
Limited as we are by the conditions of our nature, we can find no mode of expression except such as is based upon sensible experience; and although we can convince ourselves by rational inference of the existence, and to some extent of the character, of what is beyond sense, we can frame no description of it, nor even a Phantasm or image by means of imagination, except so far as we are able to draw upon the phenomena of the external world.
"The Old Riddle and the Newest Answer"
John Gerard