Her sleep was disturbed withnightmares caused by the miseries she had experienced in the day.
Now since she had been at Maraucourt and had new hopes and was at work, the nightmares had been less frequent and so she was not so sad.
Perhaps he and every one else wandered in an abyss of bottomless scepticism; and he was but the victim of one out of numberless nightmares of eternity, as he wandered a shadow with shadows and wailed by impassable streams.
No one has done justice to the meaning of Mr. Wells and his original departure in fantastic fiction; to these nightmares that were the last apocalypse of the nineteenth century.
They did heroic service in the war; and more than justified their glorious place in the day-dreams and nightmares of our boyhood.
He has many true inventions in the perilous and diabolic; he has many startling nightmares realised.
There may be nightmares down cellar, as we thought as a child, but even in those days we knew how to dodge them when we went after apples; that is, take down a light and slam the door quickly on coming up.
Algernon Blackwood in numerous stories not only uses the elements of dreams and nightmares but explicitly calls attention to the fact.
It would appear that all one needs to do is to look into his own nightmares and write.
The nightmares began on that night; and the nightmares have followed me home.
He was not even having nightmares about being all alone, separated, and on a train trip bound for nowhere.
He further averred that a moment or two of confusion when waking up from nightmares was totally understandable and natural in life's craziness.
They were salient neither in nightmares as it was not night, nor daydreams as this word only had positive connotations, but in a sense, daymares.
No, he had to admit, he was not having nightmares about the women he cared for--and he cared for them all with these two specially mixing in himself as paint, their pleasures and sorrows his tenebrism.
Alan learned to talk him down from these crises, to soothe the worry, and in the end it worked to everyone's advantage, defusing the nightmares themselves when they came.
His nightmares ran twice: once just before bed, in clairvoyant preview, and again in the depths of REM sleep.
All the nightmares and phantasms that ever haunted the human imagination have been packed upon him unto this day, when it is almost as common to hear his name in India and China as in Europe and America.
If people only knew how few are ever really wide-awake, these spiritual nightmares would soon reach their termination.
He 'gave up all worldly learning,' shut his intellectual eyes, and sank under all the nightmares which his first vision saw burnt up as vermin.
Yet she cast a look of dread at the rising tent, thinking of the hours of sleeplessness, of appalling thoughts on the borderline between nightmares and flashes of fever.
In those nightmares of hers, however, he was still a man, subject to mortal tragedy.
The nightmares of the night before fell on him again; groaning and muttering he tossed to and fro, and presently awoke.
The peculiarity about the nightmares and miscalculations of McClellan was that they persisted long after the data for their correction were available.
Norm did his work rapidly and fostered no hideous nightmares about tests.
I'm not afraid of his spirit, but rather of the nightmares which might evolve from the trauma of finding Norm and the inability to help.
Because the truck had a manual transmission, steering and brakes, and Mom's blood pressure rose at the mere thought of having to drive it, we presumed it would nullify her nightmaresif she retained use of the family car.
The soreness was still there, thumping dully in his stiff muscles, but sleep had been deep and brought no fresh nightmares to worry about.
Only in his nightmareshad he seen what he saw now!
Never in its worst nightmareshad hallucinated imagination conjured up the progress made in the art of mowing down human lives.
Go back to the girls and make them laugh over some funny stories instead of getting nightmares about the scenery.
We fought with the nightmares that entered our minds, and conversation languished.
At the prospect of unending nightmares Jimmie's voice shook with terror.
It was like those nightmaresin which in a minute one is whirled through centuries of fear and torment.
He only had frantic and fantastic nightmares of things as they are.
A nurse that scares the nightmares off A mother nearer than a spouse Whose picture once I saw; and there Wild as of old and weird and sweet In sevenfold splendour blazed the moon Not on her brow; beneath her feet.
And these nightmares overpassed the limits of abomination that the most dangerous madness dreams.
It is difficult to pass from the enchanted childhood of this eternal child, with its imaginative playing at everything, broken only by fevers whereof the dreams were the nightmares of unconscious genius.
He could not hear his own voice--the old nightmares danced before his eyes, roared their horrors in his ears.
Steeped in crime this miserable young man dragged out his awful life at Temple Colney: nightmares by night, horrors by day.
Practice days succeeding that were worse nightmaresto Ken Ward than the days he had spent in constant fear of the sophomores.
Not in the wildest flights of your nightmares have you ever said anything so impossible as that.
Ken's dodging and loneliness--perhaps necessary and curbing nightmares in the life of a freshman--were things of the past.
The vision, for vision it was, approached like one of the nightmares that haunt people's dreams.
In nightmares and hours of feverish unrest, she had suffered the same vague, morbid feeling that she now experienced.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nightmares" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
