After he had gone the women sat about and moaned and wailed until Jane thought that she should go mad; but, knowing that they were doing it all out of the kindness of their hearts, she endured the frightful waking
nightmare of those awful hours in dumb and patient suffering.
The end of the
nightmare was not altogether according to Inspector Jacks' expectations.
My next
nightmare vision was a quiet street of the dead.
And they went through, winning half the length of the lake by nightfall and pulling on through all the night hours as the wind went down, falling asleep at the oars and being rapped awake by Liverpool, toiling on through an age-long
nightmare while the stars came out and the surface of the lake turned to the unruffledness of a sheet of paper and froze skin-ice that tinkled like broken glass as their oar-blades shattered it.
Why do you allow these two barbarous men to keep you here while the great Bootmann is playing the
Nightmare Sonata in the next room?
As to the cries, I was in no difficulty; since she was alone in her room these could result from
nightmare only.
Not for nothing had I been called "Sissy" Van Weyden, I thought, as I tossed restlessly on my bunk between one
nightmare and another.
But this dream weighed on her like a
nightmare, and she awoke from it in terror.
I left some Japanese prints there, and my favourite
nightmare is that someone has broken in and sneaked them.
I come up, after having fallen asleep myself, below, and find you in your wrapper here, with the
nightmare.
These weird apparitions had been handsome youths, clad in fashionable attire, fifteen minutes before, but now they did not resemble any beings one ever sees unless in
nightmares.
We waited a long time, but he didn't come back any more, or if he did he come around the other way; so at last we was tuckered out and went to sleep and had
nightmares, a million of them.
