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Spectrally

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spec·tral  (spktrl)
adj.
1. Of or resembling a specter; ghostly.
2. Of, relating to, or produced by a spectrum.
spec·trali·ty (-trl-t), spectral·ness (-trl-ns) n.
spectral·ly adv.
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Ahab and all his boat's crew seemed asleep but the Parsee; who crouching in the bow, sat watching the sharks, that spectrally played round the whale, and tapped the light cedar planks with their tails.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
As instance: dim shapes and shadowy forms would sometimes appear to him out of the night, and as they flitted spectrally past he would hear, as in a dream, the hunting cries of the pack; and, as his pulse quickened, his own hunting instinct would rouse until his controlled soft-howling in the song broke into eager whinings.
Jerry of the Islands by London, Jack View in context
He looked up at the high tower spectrally resisting the wind, and he looked round at the white tombstones, like enough to the dead in their winding-sheets, and he counted the nine tolls of the clock- bell.
Our Mutual Friend by Dickens, Charles View in context
 
 
 
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