He floated wraithlike through a chaotic jumble of dreams. From Wordnik.com. [Shield of Thunder]
Time had added a woman's curves to the wraithlike child as well. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
Followed by wraithlike figures in glowing giant gel-like snowballs. From Wordnik.com. [2010 February] Reference
The massive lines of the chair made her proportions seem wraithlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Cockade] Reference
Still in that wraithlike state, he started for the Unkerlanters 'line. From Wordnik.com. [Rulers of the Darkness]
Formless and vague, the wraithlike images followed her into wakefulness. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
It was hard for a woman as vibrantly alive as Storm to appear wraithlike. From Wordnik.com. [Gold of Kings] Reference
Noticed this in reference to Nancy Reagan; "...the wraithlike former actress...". From Wordnik.com. [What? Is it Linktastic Friday Already? - A Dress A Day] Reference
A cloaked figure materialized in front of him, appearing all at once, wraithlike. From Wordnik.com. [Ilse Witch]
She said nothing as she opened the door and slipped inside, a wraithlike presence. From Wordnik.com. [Morgawr]
Nor did they come from the dozens of wraithlike figures that suddenly materialized. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Tempest]
She glanced behind her at her husband, always tall and thin, but now almost wraithlike. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
"Fair winds!" he cries to her and sets off, his lunchbox carried by a wraithlike parrot. From Wordnik.com. [Children's Books] Reference
Father Donovan was wraithlike, impossibly emaciated, his eyes deepset and strangely peaceful. From Wordnik.com. [King Rat]
A wraithlike face of a sort possessed only by the most exalted and highly trained of her kind. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
As MacArthur 's eyes adapted, he detected other hunters moving wraithlike through the shadows. From Wordnik.com. [Genellan- Planetfall]
A muscular jet-black shape was with him, gliding wraithlike across the floor despite its bulk. From Wordnik.com. [Into the Thinking Kingdoms]
Within seconds a wraithlike image of the Eagle appeared in the air above Richard and the biots. From Wordnik.com. [The Garden of Rama]
But they had sounded aloud in the grotto, echoed by voices as wraithlike as they were distinctive. From Wordnik.com. [The Chronicles of Riddick]
The moor cat was himself again as well, no longer faint lines and shadows, no long - er wraithlike. From Wordnik.com. [The Elf Queen of Shannara]
A haze hung over the plateau, smoky and wraithlike, and from that haze the Phyrexians kept advancing. From Wordnik.com. [Bloodlines]
Buffy withdrew the stake and stabbed it down again, but the wraithlike vampire slipped away from her. From Wordnik.com. [KING OF THE DEAD] Reference
A bridge extended outward from the broken floor, a bridge that glimmered with a ghostly, wraithlike glow. From Wordnik.com. [The Reign of Istar]
Gliding wraithlike over the staircase it then entered the bedroom where my wife and I lay sleeping peacefully. From Wordnik.com. [The horror of blimps] Reference
Later, when the Baron had departed, Philip flushed suddenly at the ugly suspicion rising wraithlike in his mind. From Wordnik.com. [Diane of the Green Van] Reference
His St. Petersburg is another "Unreal City" whose wraithlike inhabitants leave hardly a smudge where they've passed. From Wordnik.com. [A Master of Technique] Reference
In moments thousands of wraithlike things would be involved in the search for Sahra -- and everyone else still missing. From Wordnik.com. [Soldiers Live]
Men, attracted by the noise, had begun filtering in from the surrounding campsites, sliding wraithlike out of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
Stretch bolted toward the slipway—as a dozen wraithlike figures rained down the manhole behind him, entering the antechamber. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference
He stared down the empty basement corridor, watching the occasional passage of wraithlike white-coated figures in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Devil's Waltz]
The mist of the afternoon had scattered before a faint sea-wind, and settled wraithlike in the hollows of the hills across the bay. From Wordnik.com. [Where the Sun Swings North] Reference
Lida stood pale and wraithlike in the dark, lit by the flames of a flickering torch set on the stairs leading to the inner courtyard. From Wordnik.com. [The Eternal Mercenary]
The wraithlike felines padded swiftly toward the granary, emerald eyes winking mysteriously, before disappearing through the open door. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
Struan was exhausted by his vigil, and anguished by the fact that she seemed thinner than before, wraithlike, her eyes deeply shadowed. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
Pictures I had seen of famine victims passed wraithlike before me. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of a Yogi] Reference
For, each wraithlike smoke-swirl meant the death of tree and shrub. From Wordnik.com. [Further Adventures of Lad] Reference
The young moon shed only a wan and wraithlike radiance over the plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border] Reference
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