53 examples of somnambulist in sentences

Among the Poems which Wordsworth suppressed, in his final edition, is the Latin translation of 'The Somnambulist' by his son.

Morange, as if unconscious of what went on around him, as if he were quite alone there, continued walking softly hither and thither like a somnambulist.

To which she replied, 'Well, if it comes to that, my merry somnambulist, what are you?'

illusion &c (error) 495; phantom &c (fallacy of vision) 443; Fata Morgana &c (ignis fatuus) 423 [Lat.]; vapor &c (cloud) 353; stretch of the imagination &c (exaggeration) 549; mythogenesis^. idealist, romanticist, visionary; mopus^; romancer, dreamer; somnambulist; rhapsodist &c (fanatic) 504; castle-buildier, fanciful projector.

As in the time of the siege, if you desire to obtain news of your mother or your wife, you have no other alternative than to consult a somnambulist or a fortune-teller.

The name was 'Giuditta Astarita,' and under it, in another character, was printed the word 'Somnambulist.'

He had never heard a voice of which he had been so certain that it did not come from any one in the room, and he had never found any somnambulist who had so instantly grasped his most secret thoughts, without the slightest assistance or leading word from himself.

His visit to the somnambulist, too, had helped to unnerve him, and as he wandered through the streets he forgot that it was time to eat, so that physical faintness came upon him unawares and suddenly.

He thought he could hear the clear, bell-like voice of the somnambulist telling him that he should be forced to marry Veronica.

" Such evidence of unnatural knowledge might have convinced a more sceptical mind than Matilde's of the fact that the somnambulist could at least read her thoughts and memories from her mind as from a book.

" Matilde, believing that the somnambulist was one person when awake and quite another when asleep, did not care to enter into conversation with her in her present state.

She was a most peculiar woman, and was a clairvoyant and somnambulist of the most decided kind.

She was a somnambulist; and, though weak enough when awake, threatened several times to pull the house down, by her violence in this condition.

Who of us but can see the wearing-away of nervous energy which took place with the perpetual care of a cancer and a somnambulist pressed also by the hard reading suggested by Dr. Arthur Lütze?

ELVI´NO, a wealthy farmer in love with Ami´na the somnambulist.

Slim Simpson, white before, was like a corpse; only his great boyish eyes stared out, as a somnambulist stares, as one hypnotised.

Again within the ranch house, Mary Landor sank into a seat with the utter weariness of a somnambulist awakened.

" Sir Bale signed towards the door; and like a somnambulist, with dilated gaze and pale as death, Philip Feltram, at his wit's end, went out of the room.

Nick followed, and entered the room close behind the somnambulist.

] As a somnambulist, look, on that bench, Whither in sleep, as you would ne'er believe, The moonshine lured him, vaguely occupied Imagining himself posterity And weaving for his brow the crown of fame.

Every one looked like a somnambulist as he pulled and hauled.

Our Italian had another specialty: he was perpetually in search of some notorious somnambulist.

They had forgotten to fix the hour for the next sitting: so, to repair the omissionby means of a few passesthe somnambulist was restored to sleep and lucidity.

With a tense concentration, with the fixed gaze of a somnambulist, she beholds neither the trembling Tetrarch, nor her mother, the fierce Herodias who watches her, nor the hermaphrodite, nor the eunuch who sits, sword in hand, at the foot of the thronea terrible figure, veiled to his eyes, whose breasts droop like gourds under his orange-checkered tunic.

'The somnambulist and clairvoyant see without eyes, and carry their visions directly into regions where the waiting consciousness of orderly intelligence cannot enter' (Wallace).

53 examples of  somnambulist  in sentences