And the sea-bird hushes-- The bird and all far cries within my blood-- And earth as a somnambulist moves on.
The earth as a somnambulist moves on In a strange sleep .
At least, on one occasion, Bysshe Shelley was a somnambulist during the time he passed under Dr.
At least, on one occasion, Geordie Byron was a somnambulist at Aberdeen.
But between the healthysomnambulist and the subject of nightmare we find from another point of view a contrast resembling that between the man of genius and the hysteric.
Rarely or never will a somnambulist spontaneously notice what other persons are doing, and adapt his own actions thereto.
The somnambulist arises from his bed in his sleep, and proceeds to prepare a meal or work out a mathematical problem or write a thesis or a letter, or sometimes to describe distant scenes and events transpiring far away.
The case of Alexis, the noted French somnambulist and clairvoyant, is worthy of notice here.
The somnambulist panted for breath, tears flowed down her face, and perspiration bathed her brow.
General, without taking offence, "now I remember, that the somnambulist foretold me this just a year ago.
The words of the somnambulist recurred to him; he looked round for the old man--he was riding among the troops.
Another of the prophecies of the somnambulist was, that the country should be visited by cholera, and that those whom it carried off would be the happiest.
As a somnambulist moves, he had accomplished the deed.
With an air of a somnambulist did Amelie comb out her long blond hair and arrange it in its accustomed style.
Since you have hinted at the possibility of my playing in your beautiful piece,[78] I am like a somnambulist who has been made to drink too much champagne.
Then she found herself lonely indeed, oblivious of her surroundings, like a somnambulist who walks and speaks and acts in a dream.
We heard the subdued rustling of the crowd in the 'east room,' while we in the sitting-room were awaiting the involuntary signal which would render it proper to enter the parlor where the bed of the somnambulist was placed.
Unless you forbid me, I will drop it into the river to-night; it is the evidence of an act for which you are, I thank God, no more accountable than a somnambulist for what she does in her dream.
I felt like an awakened somnambulist at the brink of a precipice.
Stein started like a somnambulist suddenly awakened and looked at her stupidly, then at the motionless girls in the shop.
Victoria started like a somnambulist aroused and looked at her vaguely.
The somnambulist and the clairvoyant see without eyes, and carry their vision directly into regions where the waking consciousness of orderly intelligence cannot enter.
It is foolish therefore to expect revelations about the higher ideas from the somnambulist state.
It is further to be noted on this point that the somnambulist is thus brought into rapport with two genii and a twofold set of ideas, his own and that of the magnetiser.
Wishing, however, to have the alleged somnambulist under his inspection, he assigned to the Major a spare bed in his own dormitory, and gave Mogyorody a separate room.
Yes, the somnambulist had wakened when his name had been called, out the call had been rude, and the awakening bitter.
The torpor and composure of a somnambulist had come upon Frederick, who with his shirt sleeves rolled up was ceaselessly washing his arms and hands and brushing his finger nails, all at the bidding of a will not his own.
Dresden" (1843), we find the truth in question confirmed in another way by what the somnambulist herself says, p.
I did not know what there could be to laugh at in an interchange of fisticuffs with a somnambulist or a maniac.
Such evidence of unnatural knowledge might have convinced a more sceptical mind than Matilde's of the fact that the somnambulistcould 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.
He thought he could hear the clear, bell-like voice of the somnambulisttelling him that he should be forced to marry Veronica.
It was indeed a spirit's painting; for love had in this instance burst the bands of matter, and the somnambulist had achieved a work of art that surpassed all the efforts of his waking hours.
May not the somnambulist walking through intricate passages and performing complicated manual operations in the dark, have his movements guided by this sense?
The youthful somnambulist is put to sleep in bed with a companion who is not affected, and the leg of the one boy is linked by a pretty long band of ribbon or tape to the leg of the other.
The actions of the somnambulist are, doubtless, prompted and governed by those dream-impulses which the imaginary incidents passing through the sleeper's mind suggest.
In the "Transactions of the Medical Society" at Breslau, we meet with the case of a somnambulist who did not hear even the report of a pistol fired close to him.
In the case of a femalesomnambulist described in "The Philosophy of Natural History," by Dr.
At length this sinister somnambulist stirred from his motionless position and advanced at a slow pace; he walked like an automaton.
That is the mole," thought he, and he fancied he could hear the voice of the somnambulist cry: "Take away that mole!
We have only seen one somnambulist who had described the symptoms of the diseases in three individuals presented to her.
After a while the somnambulist seemed penitent and troubled.
As to the third question, how the somnambulist can safely move where the waking person cannot, as along the edge of precipices, and on the roofs of houses, the explanation is simple and easy.
How is it that the somnambulist rises and moves about in a state of apparently sound sleep?
This virtually answers the second question, how the somnambulist can perform actions requiring intelligence, yet without apparent consciousness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "somnambulist" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
