What would send my nephew, Martin Hearne, into a trance, supposing trances to be in it, and he rubbing the gold on the lion and unicorn that he had taken in hand to make a good job of for the top of the coach?
Sometimes he would vomit stones an inch and a half square, and in others of his trances there was a noise in his throat, as if he was singing psalms inwardly.
It keeps company with the sallies of the wit and the trances of religion.
Confined to her bed, her bodily temperature being low, and passing a good of her time in trances or periods of insensibility, the requirements of the system as regarded food would necessarily be limited.
Spasms and trances alternated with alarming frequency since Miss Fancher was first attacked.
Among the visions and messages some have always been too patently silly, among the trances and convulsive seizures some have been too fruitless for conduct and character, to pass themselves off as significant, still less as divine.
The great Spanish mystics, who carried the habit of ecstasy as far as it has often been carried, appear for the most part to have shown indomitable spirit and energy, and all the more so for the trances in which they indulged.
One of the most remarkable classes of magic phenomena, which combines almost all other known features of trances with the peculiar kind called stigmatization, is known as Mysticism in the more limited sense of that word.
Simple somnambulism is not unfrequently connected with magnetic somnambulism, and may occasionally be seen even in trances during daytime.
But it is not possession to the extent of complete expulsion of the original consciousness, as in the trances of Home, Moses, and Mrs. Piper.
Moreover, in many of her trances she seemed as if surrounded by a crowd of persons endeavoring, with different degrees of success, to express themselves through her, or she endeavoring to express them.
Give mercies, cruelties, and exultations, Give the long trances of the breaking heart; And we shall bring you great imaginations To urge you through the agony of Art.
During thesetrances he would maintain a standing posture for hours, buried in his thoughts, and was quite oblivious to the external world.
He "strutted proudly barefoot along the streets of Athens; he was careless and shabby in his dress; in his manner he was affected and haughty and was subject to ecstatic trances and visions.
The evidence elicited in the trials showed the errors ordinarily attributed to Illuminism, including trances and revelations and sexual abominations unfit for transcription.
As early as the twelfth century, Richard of St. Victor warns his disciples to beware of it, and Aquinas points out that trancesmay come from God, from the demon or from bodily affections.
Fray Alonso however encouraged him to investigate the lives and conversation of those who enjoyed trances and visions and the stigmata, when it became evident that all was magic art, the work of Satan and of hell.
In 1848 there was at Niederbronn, near Strassburg, a bride of Christ named Elizabeth Eppinger who, though denied the supreme favor of the stigmata, had trances and visions and the gift of prophecy.
You know I've given you four trances already this morning, and you have communed with the soul of Wurzburger at least a dozen times.
It was only by repeated private trances of their own that they were able to keep up their morale.
Moreover, the Bleak party had an irresistible assistant in the person of Miss Chuff, who put her trances unreservedly at Dunraven's disposal.
Through these trances of mine I have been privileged to put many bereaved ones in communication with their dear departed spirits.
A low fever of a nature little understood had fastened upon him, and he still fell frequently into those strange unnatural trances which were looked upon by the brothers of the order as due to purely satanic agency.
He could talk now of the strange trances into which he was thrown, and how he was made to see things at a distance and tell all he saw.
The marked ecstatic trances recurred every Friday after the date mentioned, generally about eight or nine o’clock in the morning, and ended about six in the afternoon, although sometimes lasting an hour longer.
It would be easy to show by similar proofs that the ecstatic trances could not have been feigned.
A further indication of contact with the Perceval romances is afforded by the love-trances which overtake the hero at the most inconvenient moment, and are repeated ad nauseam in the most clumsy and inartistic manner.
He professed to derive his knowledge from supernatural sources--from trances and visions.
There is not one single valid reason removing the ecstatic visions and trances of the Apostle Paul from this class.
Laying on of hands" must have been a form of mesmerism, and Greek oracles of Delphi and other places seem to have been delivered by priests or priestesses who went into trances of self-induced hypnotism.
She had discovered that she could go into trances by an effort of her own will.
Until the discovery of hypnotism these strange trances were little understood, and people were even buried alive in them.
I am subject to the same cataleptic trancesin which my boy often fell,’ said Mrs. Bishop.
Pridham described the trance as being exceedingly death-like in character, and added that, in such trances as the one in question, in the past people have no doubt been actually buried.
In fact, expressions that appear less serious than the subject merits are few, and the descriptions, of the trances for example, are almost strangely appreciative, and for a scientific study keenly sympathetic and beautiful.
The book opens with an account of the trances of the three young men on Mount Ontake, for that sight was the source of all these researches.
At trances he was allowed to examine the possessed, take their pulse, and even to stick pins into them to test their sensibility, sometimes in a way that they were far from not feeling afterwards.
Most of them are frauds for money, but there are some, like that ridiculous Marietta Hoag, who pretend to go into trances and get messages just because they like to be the center of a sensation.
I am confident of my power to free you from your trances and all their phenomena, but you must, at once and for all time, break every tie that binds you to your 'controls.
There are men, and very great investigators, who would say that your daughter's trances and all phenomena connected therewith were pathologic, explainable on the grounds of some obscure neural derangement.
I think these trances have been fastened upon her by those about her, and if she consents to come to me I shall stop them forever.
To rid her of her trances will liberate her from a belief in her ills, and that is the main consideration.
Why should this teasing, tormenting girl from the mountains come with her trances and tricks to make life furious and antic where it had been amusing and accountable?
She rebels at times, but she has been having these trancesever since she was ten years old.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "trances" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
