The reader will remember Fuseli’s picture of the head of the spectre horse peering in at the sleeper between the curtains of her bed, whilst an imp sits on and oppresses her bosom.
Then head and top alone remained of board, two sides and foot were left open, or partially open; they could be closed with curtains, and the sleeper could and did convert his bed into a sort of box when he retired to rest.
That evening they all went to the theater as the guests of the Armour boys, and after the show took the sleeper at midnight for home.
But this time the sleeper perceived a resemblance between the gravity of that look and the gravity of the dancing-girls' faces.
And thesleeper was filled with what seemed to him fresh evidence that God is not!
Chapter II With the passing of a cooler air the sleeper wakened and rubbed his eyes.
Of course you have a lot to do, I know, and being such a poor sleeper doesn't improve matters.
At first it would seem to have been merely a veil that covered the head and face, like the keffiya of the modern Arab; in course of time it was extended to the cloak in which the sleeper or the dead man could be wrapped.
The belief is common to most primitive peoples, and is doubtless due to the dreams in which the sleeper imagines himself possessed of some bodily form that is not his own.
It appears all right to a casual observer, but when the victim gets into his hammock his weight begins to tell, and the knot slips away and precipitates the sleeper on to the deck.
REM), and in this state the sleeper is more easily wakened; the dreamiong alternates with a more profound sleep, from which it is more difficult to awake the sleeper.
Look on me now, the sleeper arisen; Look on me, who wandered, whose name is the Dawning!
She turned her head sharply to look at the sleeper by her side.
Next Morning, as a south-bound Passenger Train was crossing the Ohio River, the Colored Porter on the Atlanta Sleeper jumped eighty feet from the Trestle into the Water in order to Escape with his Life.
One day she read in a Veracious Newspaper that if the Left Hand of a Sleeping Person be immersed in Tepid Water, then the Sleeper will truthfully answer any Question that may be asked.
Occasionally from some cabin or hammock the snore of a tiredsleeper reached his ears.
The sleeper stirred, sighed a little, and opened his eyes.
There was plenty of time for this, as their sleeper being on the third and last section of the circus train, they would not leave for nearly two hours yet, at the earliest.
The lad was lame and sore from the cramped position in which he had been obliged to lie all night, but he was just as cheerful as if he had awakened in his own berth on sleeper number eleven on the Sparling train.
Seizing her left ear between his finger and thumb, he gave it a violent twist that caused the little sleeper to start up with a loud scream.
The bed on which the pretty sleeper reposed was near the center of the room, a low French bedstead, and her arms were resting above the white counterpane that covered it.
The sleeper stirred restlessly, raised himself painfully and slowly, and attempted to seek fleeting comfort in a new position.
An odor of drugs and fever tainted the air, and a small walnut table near the flushed sleeper was laden with the familiar prescription bottle, tumbler and box of powders.
Coal stocks are dropping like a thermometer in a cold wave," he said, like a fireman at a sleeper in a burning house.
Mrs. West also thought it wise to let the sleeper rest as long as she could, that she might be able to meet the strain of the day.
Bess sat beside the sleeper with an unopened magazine on her knee.
And in a few minutes after Herbert took his seat beside Traverse, it was noticeable that the face of the sleeper lost its look of pain, and his rest grew deep and calm.
Herbert drew a camp-stool and sat down beside his mat, resolving not to break that greatly needed rest, but to wait patiently until the sleeper should awake.
When quiet reigned once more in the black and white canyon, only one sleeper lay on the moon-silvered sand of the cave.
Like a sleeper half wakened he took full breath of the night air, and stretched his arms up above his head.
The realsleeper already feels the approaching awakening and would like to sleep longer (to phantasy).
The solution of the tormenting riddle, the magic word that banishes the ghost, is the cry of awakening, by which the sleeper is freed from the oppressing dream, the incubus.
They manage better on the Mississippi, and both boats often go down without waking the lightest sleeper on board.
But they think that the spirit can quit the body and return to it during life; it goes away, for example, in dreams, and if a sleeper should unfortunately waken before his soul has had time to return, he will probably fall sick.
That fire was part of the revelation of God there made to the Israelites.
And he came to Capernaum: and, being in the house, he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?
She listened; the sleeper could not be heard to breathe.
The sleeper moves, and sighs aloud in her dream, "Oh, my God!
He began to rub the temples of the sleeper with the fluid from the bottle.
Noemi held her child trembling in her arms, and listened to hear if the sleeper close by was yet awake.
