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Phantom

This page groups search-ready records carrying the label “Phantom” in public source text or archive coding. It preserves a discovery term without treating the label as proof, a biological category, or a claim that distinct cultural traditions are interchangeable.

Search-ready records
31
Public sources
5
States / territories
5
Dated span
1854–2022

Terminology belongs to the cited public sources and may be historical, contested, culturally specific, or outdated.

Public records

  1. Finding true love at the barre#42502022 / Australian Broadcasting Corporation / QLD / Ghost and Apparition AccountsFinding true love at the barre Finding true love at the barre Finding true love at the barre Finding true love at the barre Dancers Ako Kondo and Chengwu Guo travelled great distances at a very young age to join The Aus…
  2. phantom in Australia Felix#30391917 / Project Gutenberg / VIC / Retellings and Adaptationss. And he saw a figure that looked like his the centre of a boisterous crowd; saw himself slapped on the back by dirty hands, shouting and shouted to drinks. He turned his pillow, to drive the image away. Whatever he ha…
  3. phantom in Australia Felix#30381917 / Project Gutenberg / VIC / Retellings and Adaptationsw her out, by being kind and encouraging. Instead of which he had acted towards her, he felt convinced, like an ill-mannered boor. He did not know how it was, but he couldn't detach his thoughts from Polly this evening:…
  4. phantom in The Last Chance#26061905 / Project Gutenberg / WA / Retellings and Adaptationses_; what strange movement of the hour hand of fate had brought her to the often distasteful work, the dire climatic hardships of a hospital nurse on a West Australian goldfield? Who could doubt her stainless purity who…
  5. phantom in The Last Chance#26011905 / Project Gutenberg / WA / Retellings and Adaptationse, equally free from doubt or fear—the sweet, sad eyes which so rarely gave token of the spirit-light which illumined them, at rarest moments, ‘like melancholy stars,’ of which Mrs. Banneret said they always reminded he…
  6. phantom in The Last Chance#26001905 / Project Gutenberg / WA / Retellings and Adaptationsee. Some of it was available for camel food; but, in a general way, it appeared to the Commissioner as a land accursed of God and man—unfitted for providing sustenance for man or beast. As the night dragged through, he…
  7. phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#22131905 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativeson yourself ? " " I have seen him on three occasions," re plied Spicer solemnly. " The first time was the week after I arrived on the place, the second was three months ago, and the last was the very Saturday upon which…
  8. phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#22121905 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativesysteries, save in mining matters, are few and far between. I am all impatience to hear what shape yours assumes." While I had been speaking Spicer had been leaning on the verandah rail looking down the hillside towards…
  9. phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#22111905 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativess," said Spicer, as he walked to the rail of the verandah, and looked down upon the moonlit plain, " it is, as you say, by no means a bad sort of place. As I shall show you to morrow, the station buildings are above the…
  10. phantom in The Crime of the Under Seas#22101905 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativesn the Bush. The property itself is a large one, and certainly the best in that district. The homestead is a neat Bush building con structed of wood, roofed with shingles, and boasting on every side a broad verandah. It…
  11. phantom in Such Is Life#29771903 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationshe culvert, and send him at the drain: and, with that danger-begotten fascination by trifles which, in situations like mine, you must often have experienced, I noticed her pliant waist spring in easy undulation to the h…
  12. phantom in Thirty Years in Australia#29011903 / Project Gutenberg / VIC / Descriptive Belief Recordsthe people who, as in this case, were supposed to be entertaining her, were neither mean nor selfish, nor intentionally rude. I am sure the idea that they were not treating her with the highest consideration never cross…
  13. phantom in My Brilliant Career#29121901 / Project Gutenberg / NSW / Retellings and Adaptationsfollowed, March is doing likewise, and my life is still the same. What the future holds I know not, and am tonight so Weary that I do not care. “Time rules us all. And life, indeed, is not The thing we planned it out, e…
  14. phantom in Joe Wilson and His Mates#21511901 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativesve dead, Up-Country and Out- Back : To where *fuath glorious clustered stars The dreamy plains expand — My hovu lies wide a thousand miles In the Never-Never Land It lies beyond the farming belt. Wide wastes of scrub an…
  15. phantom in Babes in the Bush#26501900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsons gird the sphere, We know their time and place, but thou, Whence art thou, Child of Light, And what thy mission here? Like meteor stars that stream Adown the dark obscure, Didst thou descend from angel homes, To bles…
  16. phantom in Babes in the Bush#26431900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationserstand my position, I feel sure.’ He rode forward with a more upright seat, a firmer hand upon his bridle-rein, and that stern lighting of the eyes that may be seen when, and when only— Bridle-reins are gathered up, An…
  17. phantom in Babes in the Bush#26421900 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsm Adown the dark obscure, Didst thou descend from angel homes, To bless with angel joys Abodes less bright and pure? Thy beauty and thy love May mortal transports share, Aspire with quivering wings to reach The spirits…
  18. phantom in Australian fairy tales#23831897 / Project Gutenberg / Giant and Ogre Narrativesis no water in Phantom Hollow? And last but not least: Why figs do not grow on the tree by the hut? Now begone! and bring me the answers before sundown,” cried the Red Giant in a towering rage. Our hero departed with a…
  19. phantom in Australian fairy tales#23811897 / Project Gutenberg / Spirit-Person Narrativesto behold, as it came slowly out of the water and crouched abjectly at the feet of our hero. “What want you with me?” it cried presently. “Tell me why the leaves of the gum-trees grow edgeways to the sun,” said Cocky. “…
  20. phantom in Australian fairy tales#23751897 / Project Gutenberg / Giant and Ogre Narrativesought you were going to set me something very difficult. What are the three questions?” “Why the leaves on the trees grow edgeways to the sun?” said the giant. “Next: What is the reason there is no water in Phantom Holl…
  21. phantom in Australian fairy tales#23741897 / Project Gutenberg / Giant and Ogre Narrativesthree questions—the answers to which you must bring to me before sundown, otherwise your miserable life shall answer for it.” “Oh, that’s quite easy,” replied Cocky, with a dash of his city assurance. “I thought you wer…
  22. phantom in At Midnight and Other Stories#22541897 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Spirit-Person Narrativeshusband's hand, and after a little only spoke in low tones, glancing hither and thither in a furtive way, with occasional jumps and starts; for the sense of mystery was upon her--delightful certainly, enchantingly Engli…
  23. phantom in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#27691896 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsin the days ere you were born? Ah! we read about the drovers and the shearers and the like Till we wonder why such happy and romantic fellows strike. Don't you fancy that the poets ought to give the bush a rest Ere they…
  24. phantom in In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses#27681896 / Project Gutenberg / Retellings and Adaptationsa swagman's ghost out late; And the horseman blurs in the distance, While still the stars remain, A low, faint dust-cloud haunting His track on the Great Grey Plain. And all day long from before them The mirage smokes a…
  25. phantom in Australian Tales#22661896 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Spirit-Person Narrativesyou like a strip of grey cloth spun by a furiously flying boom, the air strikes your face sharply, the bush, always grey and colourless, parts before you, and closes behind you like a fog. You lose yourself in this prev…
  26. phantom in Tales of the Austral Tropics#18531893 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Spirit-Person Narratives. We'll turn our horses out behind that patch of scrub, and be up there at crow-chirp and catch my gentleman in his blankets as soon as the others go down to the yard. There's an old hut alongside the kitchen we can pla…
  27. phantom in Old Tales of a Young Country#18671871 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Spirit-Person Narrativesthemselves along the shore when Millechant gives utterance to a wild shout, and runs whooping like a madman along the sand. A boat full of men cheering in English is coming straight to them over the sparkling sea. Down…
  28. phantom in Old Tales of a Young Country#18661871 / Project Gutenberg Australia / Spirit-Person Narrativeswas decided that John Soper should go with him, carrying a tinder-box in order that he might make a fire if necessary, and attract the notice of the crew. The pair started. Night fell and they did not return. It was sug…
  29. phantom in How did the Natives of Australia become Acquainted with the Demigods and Daemonia, and with the Superstitions of the Ancient Races?#21091854 / Internet Archive / Spirit-Person Narrativesrofess to derive 22 W. A. Miles on Demigods and Daemomia. their power from some pretended communication with this object. Although there seems to he nothing deserving the name of a regular religious rite among them, I a…
  30. phantom in The Three Miss Kings#2931Undated / Project Gutenberg / VIC / Retellings and Adaptationsried to attend to what he said, but she found herself thinking less of him now than of her unknown friend--less occupied with the substantial figures upon the stage of action around her than with the delusive scene-pain…
  31. phantom in For the Term of His Natural Life#2841Undated / Project Gutenberg / TAS / Retellings and Adaptationse ocean seemed to be rising up and surrounding him. He retreated to the brink of the gulf, and the glare of the upheld brand fell upon a rounded hummock, whose coronal of silky weed out-floating in the water looked like…