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.

That this is so is shown by the experience of somnambulists.

Much less could an I exist for us, except as it exists during the suspension of the will, as in dreams; and the nature of brutes may be best understood, by conceiving them as somnambulists.

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.

Somnambulists do unaccountable thingssuch as overcoming locked doors" "Don't, Bobby!

There was nothing at all unnatural in the name or the profession, in Naples, where somnambulists are plentiful enough.

" Bosio started uneasily, though like most Neapolitans, he had visited somnambulists more than once.

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.

In this state he walked into several of the boarders' chambers, his eyes wide open, as is usual with somnambulists, and, from some odd instinct or other, wishing to know what the hour was, got together a number of their watches, for the purpose of comparing them, as it would seem.

SOMNAMBULISTS act from the impulse of a blind science, the understanding being asleep, 134.

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.

" 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.

By the glare of men's eyes it understood how all were somnambulists.

Hitherto they had lived resigned to the life that surrounded them, moving like somnambulists on the undecided boundary which separates soul from instinct, but the unexpected presence of that fugitive from social battles was the impulse that launched them into full thought, walking tentatively and with no other light than that of their master.

] 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.

"My God," said the old woman in her own tongue, "the child did not live!" Honora walked as somnambulists walk, seeing nothing.

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

and then they speak, like somnambulists, wondrous things in sleep, and their words become the seeds of freedom.