Citations:nightmarey

English citations of nightmarey

Adjective: "beset by or resembling nightmares"

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• 1851, "Chamois Hunting", Littell's Living Age, 13 September 1851, page 488:

  Dream! quotha! we must dream of how we are to go at all, first, and a very nightmarey sort of dream it promises to be; […]

• 1883, "The Congo Mission: Tidings from Stanley Pool", The Missionary Herald, 1 March 1883, page 79:

  All their eyelashes being extracted, their eyes have a glaring, nightmarey, savage sort of appearance ; paint also is used as a further decoration, chiefly round the eyes, and a red parrot's feather is generally quaintly stuck into the hair.

• 1884, Marianne Filleul, Ellen Tremaine, or The Poem without an Ending, The Religious Tract Society, page 203:

  "What happened next I can scarce describe, for it sometimes seems to me as if it wasn't I myself who went through it all, but some one else in a tale, or myself in a nightmarey sort of a dream. […]

• 1884, "Night Shadows in Poe's Poetry", The Continent, Volume 5, Number 4, page 104:

  A book which, like the superb edition of "The Raven" issued by Harper & Bros., has come to its tenth edition three months from its first appearances, has no need of praise to ensure its success, and can well bear any degree of criticism that may be expended upon it; but none is needed, save for the crude and nightmarey effects, that are inseparable from all the work of Doré, and which here and there mar the pages.

• 1908, Elizabeth Robins, Come and Find Me, The Century Co. (1908), page 60:

  […] Then I looked at those nightmarey MacIvers and asked her if she was going home. […]

• 1914, William J. Robinson, "A Visit to the Inferno, or a Case of Appendicitis: A Personal Narrative", The Southern Practitioner, Volume XXXVI, No. 3, March 1914, page 129:

  To what low degree of criminal degeneracy must man fall to subject a human being to the ante-operative anxiety, to the shock of the anesthesia, to the post-operative vomiting and retching, to the pain of the wound, to the danger of infection, to the horrible paralytic distension of the bowels, to the nightmarey nights, to the fear of death — and all for some wretched lucre or rotten "reputation."

• 1917, Grace Hodgson Flandrau, Cousin Julia, D. Appleton and Company (1917), page 70:

  The house itself, which was built before the arrival of the von Ernsts, looked, in an uncertain nightmarey way, like the blurred skyline of a cathedral town.

• 1926, Gordon Stables, Kidnapped by Cannibals, Blackie and Son (1926), page 45:

  They were kind o' fixed on that, but my thoughts were at home, for father had settled down in the forest by this time, where the dear old fellow is now, when I heard Tom Roberts give a kind o' a long nightmarey sort o' scream.

• 1934, Nancy Noon Kendall, The New House, Caxton Printers, Ltd. (1934), page 63:

  And beyond his mother who could he turn towards? This thing, this intangible nightmarey thing that had come to him in the dark, how could he rid himself of it?

• 1952, John D. MacDonald, The Damned, Random House (2013), →ISBN, unnumbered page:

  “It's dark now. That seems to help a little. Think how blissfully happy we'd be, baby, if we'd never met one James Angus. Right now, it all seems kind of nightmarey. Right now I can't believe I've bared my fair white body for the public. Can you imagine what Granny would say?”

• 1969, Herbert Gold, The Great American Jackpot, Random House (1969), page 278:

  So, sleepless, nightmarey, spooked, Al swung over on a vine, like Tarzan, and spotted the smile on the former Wilbur X's lips before he could wipe it off.

• 1992, Tim Powers, Last Call, Avon (1996), →ISBN, page 472:

  “My other three haven't shown—down with the nightmarey shakes, I bet. That happens. Let's give 'em a few minutes for courtesy."