With shrill and piercing cry Gwendolaine broke the strange, benumbing trance That had withheld her; rushing from the dames And falling prone upon the silent form That gave her heart no answering throb, she cried, With voice grief-pierced and sorrow-broken, "Wait For Gwendolaine, O Sanpeur!

There are probably but few Stiltons among its apostles, few Miss Fetterses among its Mediums; but the condition which accompanies the trance, as I have shown, inevitably removes the wholesome check which holds our baser passions in subjection.

" "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?"

My outward consciousness appeared to be somewhat benumbed, as if by some present fascination or approaching trance, but I retained curiosity enough to look at my companion.

Anthropologists have gone on discussing the trances, and visions, and so-called "demoniacal possession" of savages, as if no new researches into similar facts in the psychology of civilised mankind existed; or, if they existed, threw any glimmer of light on the abnormal psychology of savages.

They dread these trances, whose dim fame Hath floated on the ignorant air to them.

It came on a quiet summer night, that ended a long trance of a week's continuance.

So, too, I send my glance On distant scenes to dwell; I see in torturing trance The night of our farewell.

"He's in a queer sleep," said he; "kind o' trance more like.

Mr. Long, in his history of the West Indies, states that, under the general name of Obi-men is also included the class of Myal men, or those who, by means of a narcotic poison, made with the juice of an herb (said to be the branched Calalue, a species of solanum) which occasions a trance of a certain duration, endeavour to convince the deluded spectators of their power to reanimate dead bodies.

Soon were heard the deep breathings preceding the trance, then the 'Indian' began to manifest, at first somewhat sullenly, as if not pleased with the conditions, some of the instruments sounded, and at last the drumsticks began their tattoo.

I also found that the passive state into which I naturally fell had a tendency to produce that trance or suspension of the will which I had discovered when a boy.

The information which I gathered was briefly as follows: The "Anadyrski bol," so called from its having originated at Anadyrsk, was a peculiar form of disease, resembling very much the modern spiritual "trance," which had long prevailed in north-eastern Siberia, and which defied all ordinary remedies and all usual methods of treatment.

She struggled to shake off the trance that her terror had cast about her.

El Hadj Batâtasee his silly trance!