48 adjectives to describe trances

It shows Jemal the Great in a sort of hypnotic trance induced at Potsdam.

If they have to wait an hour or so for a train, they fall into a stupid trance with their eyes open.

Dimly they sounded through his ear, in that half-deadly trance,not with plaintive sweetness and motherly tenderness, but like notes of doom and vengeance.

" "But the torn tent and the wounded flesh?" "When she did not sleep deep enough to enter the somnambulistic trance he missed herhe went instinctively and in all innocence to seek her outwith the result, of course, that she woke and was terrified" "Then in their heart of hearts they love?"

But Christabel in dizzy trance

The oracles are dumb: No voice or hideous hum Runs through the archéd roof in words deceiving; Apollo from his shrine Can no more divine, With hollow shriek the steep of Delphos leaving; No nightly trance, or breathed spell, Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

In her now more infrequent magnetic trance, she was always seeking the true means of her cure.

It is an argument invested with the language of oracles and omens, conceived in some religious trance, and addressed to spirits.

The heart knoweth its own bitterness, and who shall say what expiation she may not have made for sin in that dull trance of pain which took no note of circumstance, kept no count of time?

WHITE, E. B. The delicious Sabbath trance.

Heedless of mortals dull, unmeaning trance; Where spirits in their mysteries might find, A sail to float upon the yielding wind; But see, it flies, its shadow; form outspread, In fainting radiance o'er earth's startled bed, Yet rests, like the death gleam of beauty's eye, Or last rich tint of an autumnal sky.

The waters broke my hollow trance, And with a temporary strength My stiffen'd limbs were rebaptized.

While I do rest, my soul advance; Make my sleep a holy trance, That I may, my rest being wroughtt Awake into some holy thought, And with as active vigour run My course as doth the nimble sun.

In her now more infrequent magnetic trance, she was always seeking the true means of her cure.

The use of voice, bell, or gong, has long been known as a means of inducing the hypnotic state, and during this almost instantaneous trance of his there came a sudden revelation of the magical possibilities of sound-vibration.

Nature herself seemed in a lethargic trance, and her name was mud.

it is briefer than the rage of an hour, fleeter than a mid-day trance.

They hung not:no one on his form or face 660 Could gaze, as on a show by idlers sought; No kindred sufferer, to his death-place brought By lawless curiosity or chance, When into storm the evening sky is wrought, Upon his swinging corse an eye can glance, 665 And drop, as he once dropped, in miserable trance.

A butterfly sometimes may chance In heedless play to flutter hither And stop in momentary trance Where the narcissus blossoms wither; A dove that through the grove has flown Above this dell no more will utter Her coo, one can but hear her flutter And see her shadow on the stone.

120 Then, first awaking from his mournful trance, The wretched Capac cast an eager glance On his lov'd babe; th' unconscious infant smil'd, And showers of softer sorrow bath'd his child.

Pa Fewkes was quite disappointed when Magnus said he could not play the Money Musk nor Turkey in the Straw, nor the Devil's Dream, but when he went into one of his musical trances and played things with no tune to them but with a great deal of harmony, and some songs that almost made you cry, Rowena sat looking so lost to the world and dreamy that Magnus was moist about the eyes himself.

Not only were those occasional trances an intoxication, nay, a coveted indulgence, but they cast a consecration over my life.

A heavy sigh near her aroused her from her painful trance, and starting, she beheld the object of her thoughts standing by her side.

Why, sometimes, out in the hills, in the torrid quiet of summer noons, she had knelt by the shaded pools, and buried her hands in the great slumberous beds of water-lilies, her blood curdling in a feverish languor, a passioned trance, from which she roused herself, weak and tired.

Maxime however persisted,doctus cum libro,arguing that from one thing to another, this shock no matter how distant, might bring about a general explosion; but Clerambault, who was beginning to come out of his pleasant trance, smiled calmly, and said that nothing would happen.

48 adjectives to describe  trances