Coming into the presence of a sound-hearted American democrat, who never had dreamed of one mortal kneeling to another, Ivan throws himself on his knees, presses his forehead to the minister's feet, fawns like a tamed beast, and refuses to move until the minister relieves himself from this nightmare of servility by a full pardon.

Four men, crude shapes of nightmare in enveloping dust-coats and disfiguring goggles, were swarming round the wreck.

"This protracted and momentous battle, which raged day and night for so many weeks, became a continuous nightmare to the men engaged in it, every one of whom knew that upon its issue rested one of the great deciding factors of the war.

The heat, combined with her own restlessness, made the weary hours one long nightmare for her.

You perceive that by this time I had become the prey of every threatening possibility; even of that which made the present a nightmare from which I should yet wake to old conditions and old struggles, bad enough, God knows, but not like thisnot like this.

I looked back as if upon a nightmare on the dreadful city which I had left, on its tumults and noise, the wild racket of the streets, the wounded wretches who sought refuge in the corners, the strife and misery that were abroad, and, climax of all, the horrible entertainment which had been going on in the square, the unhappy being strapped upon the table.

I gloried in his calm repose; for the day was yet young, and I flattered myself that a three-hours' snooze would restore his muddled intellects to their normal mediocrity of useful instinct, and that I might still achieve my triumphal entry into the city,a procession I had been so much in the habit of picturing to myself over the nocturnal camp-fire, that it had become a sort of nightmare with me.

"I thought I had a nightmare at first.

We seem to have had one nightmare after another, Honora and I." They turned their steps up the trail that mounted westward.

He had never seen her moved like this, nor did he believe her capable of such agitation, and the contrast of her present with her usual demeanour made it the more impressive. 'Oh,' she said, leaning forward and looking at him fixedly, 'take this nightmare off my brain, or I shall go mad!

"There's nothing like a quick spin for driving the nightmares out of your mind, is there?"

It all still seems a nightmare over England and one feels that the morning must come when one will wake up and find it has all been a hideous dream, and that peace is the reality.

The whole affair seemed more a nightmare than a reality.

So on his NIGHTMARE through the evening fog Flits the squab

Yes, the thing she had feared so horribly was being enacted like a ghastly nightmare above her.

"Go back to the girls and make them laugh over some funny stories instead of getting nightmares about the scenery.

We should hardly have seen such a nightmare as the Anglicising of Ireland if we had not already seen the Germanising of England.