715 examples of nightmares in sentences

I persuaded myself that I was but now beginning; that there had been no reality in these latter experiences, only a curious succession of nightmares, such as might so well be supposed to follow a wonderful transformation like that which must take place between our mortal life andthe world to come.

In his nightmares Dorn had to be held forcibly.

It was quite the sort of thing that nightmares are made of.

Basilio was unable to refrain from a gesture of impatience, but he was determined not to recur to the old subject, so he proceeded as if he had heard nothing: "What weakens him the most is the nightmares, his terrors" "Like the government!"

It was the scene of the terrible night of the storm that was beginning over again, the gallop of nightmares, the procession of phantoms, rising at his call from this heap of old papers.

And therefore did she sit still for three mortal minutes, with her burglars making tracks for the kitchen window under her very eyes, in order to prove to herself and an incredulous public, beyond all shadow of doubt or suspicion, that they were robbers and not dreams; actual flesh and blood, not nightmares; unmistakable hats and coats in a place where hats and coats ought not to be, not clothes-lines and pumps.

"It's good for nightmares, at any rate."

The wheels, bodies and tongues of the carts; and the canopies that cover those in which women are carried, are nightmares of yellows, greens, blues, reds and purples, like cheap wooden toys.

Night after night I thought of my five hundred hussars, and had dreadful nightmares, in which I fancied that the whole regiment needed shoeing, or that my horses were all bloated with green fodder, or that they were foundered from bogland, or that six squadrons were clubbed in the presence of the Emperor.

The sting of defeat had lost its power to annoy, and his experience had become merely one of a thousand other nightmares of the past.

* NIGHTMARES.

Toggle and cinch perform their proud functions, and I sleep undisturbed by Arctic nightmares, for I have substituted green ties for the stoneware buttons which reduced my vitality by absorbing heat.

"If I had a dog with a mug like that I'd hire him out to the man who manufactures nightmares.

Their life is one long, sweet dream broken by nightmares of indigestion.

America was still a land of wonder and romance, full of rumors, nightmares, and enchantments.

* NIGHTMARES.

Dorothy Chamberlain (E); 9Jul68; R439092. Land of dreams and nightmares.

Robert Bloch (A); 9Apr70; R482208. Nursemaid to nightmares.

Robert Bloch (A); 9Apr70; R482208. Nursemaid to nightmares.

"One touch of unreality," he said, in the low tone of a man who speaks to himself, "and they would have been nightmares.

But they were not nightmaresthey were not nightmares.

"Yes?" "Nightmares," he cried; "nightmares indeed!

"Yes?" "Nightmares," he cried; "nightmares indeed!

Search in the unsavory kitchen revealed no cook, coiled up in a corner, suffering nightmares for the last greasy dinner he had brewed in his frying-pan.

For the delight of his spirit and the joy of his eyes, he had desired a few suggestive creations that cast him into an unknown world, revealing to him the contours of new conjectures, agitating the nervous system by the violent deliriums, complicated nightmares, nonchalant or atrocious chimerae they induced.

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