| 单词 | somnambulist |
| 例句 | Lourdes did not battle her cravings; rather, she submitted to them like a somnambulist to a dream. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Cade Hernandez, accomplished sleeper that he was, snored throughout the entire conversation, his face buried beneath a portion of the wall, a somnambulist’s unfinished escape tunnel out of the Soviet sector on our king-size bed. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z The somnambulist provided an early role for Conrad Veidt, the German officer in Casablanca. From Ida to The Evil Dead: 10 of the best films under 90 minutes 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z Images of blank billboards, satellite dishes, airplanes, trapeze artists, drummers and somnambulists recur with a certain frequency. Can You Hear Me Now? 2011-07-22T15:41:12Z All we see on screen, the bizarre somnambulist behaviour, the anxiety and confusion, are delusional symptoms. Last Year in Marienbad ? review 2011-07-07T22:14:01Z There’s a lot of somnambulists around, sleepwalkers controlled by society. Forty Years On, What Does Punk Rock Mean? 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s a perfect beginning to this kind of somnambulist theater, where the subconscious is the star, trying to make sense of everyday anxieties and concerns while life has been irrevocably changed by a global pandemic. ‘A Dozen Dreams’ Review: Eerie Memories Bring Magic to the Mall 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z They walk and talk and move around the screen like lucid somnambulists. The Trouble With Harry: Hitchcock's lost masterpiece 2012-07-02T18:00:01Z The premise is a bit shadowy, something about a museum filled with somnambulists who enact passages from Jekyll's journal. Gothic feel but murky focus for Mammals' 'Dream Journal' 2011-03-08T17:11:00Z She sang, I wrote then, “with creamy strength and authority. Lively even when asked to walk like a somnambulist, she sounded plummy and penetrating.” Classical Music This Week: Bagatelles, ‘La Favorite’ and Kirsten Flagstad 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z There are moments in which the work seems like an extended dream sequence, with Mr. Jasperse as the somnambulist. Dance Review: John Jasperse?s ?Canyon? at Brooklyn Academy of Music - Review 2011-11-17T22:18:12Z I’m a confabulating somnambulist, a bundle of reflexes, twitches and compulsions with no self-knowledge, let alone self-control. My Go-To Arguments for Free Will 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z If these scenes of daylight somnambulists seem dreamlike, that is consistent with the idea that there is no time in the unconscious. How to Photograph Eternity 2018-07-24T04:00:00Z People turned away, and from that moment they walked more slowly, like somnambulists, as if they no longer knew where they were going. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Let's hope many of our fellow cultural somnambulists awaken and make new meanings of what we are seeing happen in our culture, and the radical intersection of politic, social change, and art. How Artists Change the World 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z Behind his somnambulist eyes was a player clawing for his competitive life. Jason Day holds steady and savors emotional major breakthrough at PGA 2015-08-16T04:00:00Z The film is an iconic example of German expressionist cinema, with dizzying sharp angles, deep shadows and a creepy tale about a “doctor” who brings a spooky somnambulist to perform at a town fair. Stuck inside with the kids? Theater’s a fine escape. 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Open was praised, or accused, of crowning the man most likely to aim away from the pin, avoid the rough and make 72 consecutive somnambulist pars. U.S. Open: Merion is everything a championship venue should be, but rarely is 2013-06-15T00:54:00Z She was not a thing of the past, but alive as I myself was; and the only scruple was, how or how soon to awaken her from her somnambulist's dream. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z I hasten to say that I regard that only as a probability, and that I think I have observed a certain resemblance between these personifications and the secondary personalities of somnambulists. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z There is no doubt but that in somnambulists the intellectual functions are not only active, but frequently more developed than when the individual is awake. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z 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. Hegel's Philosophy of Mind 2012-03-07T03:00:14.327Z After a while the somnambulist seemed penitent and troubled. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z Prejalmini, in November, 1840, raised a blister on the healthy skin of a somnambulist by a piece of ordinary writing paper on which he had written a prescription for a blister. Essays In Pastoral Medicine 2012-03-05T03:00:09.993Z Disreputable somnambulists do not forbid the existence of magnetism, hypnotism, and genuine somnambulism. Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants 2012-03-28T02:00:29.747Z They found a somnambulist, of the name of Paul, to all appearance fast asleep. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The cairngorm eyes of the elder damsel were opened to their full width with the far-seeing blindness of a somnambulist. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z The somnambulist was in a very happy state. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z In this crisis, I made a bold leap from this Devil's-torus, and, leaping, snapped asunder my somnambulist tether. Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter 2012-02-08T03:00:20.643Z Somnambūlis′tic, pertaining to a somnambulist or to somnambulism: affected by somnambulism. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z In two somnambulists we witnessed the faculty of foreseeing acts of the organism to take place at periods more or less distant. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z The somnambulist, like the man of genius, brings into play resources which are beyond ordinary reach. Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death 2012-01-05T03:00:42.307Z She was no longer a somnambulist, though, from a nervous disease, very susceptible to magnetic influences. Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. 2012-03-05T03:00:13.070Z It moved like a great somnambulist below her window, with a fatuous complacency in its dead eyes. Gargoyles 2012-01-05T03:00:27.063Z Many intelligent somnambulists have distinctly stated that they obey the will of their master and not his hands; that manipulation, in fact, merely serves to communicate this will to their inner sense. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z We have only seen one somnambulist who had described the symptoms of the diseases in three individuals presented to her. Curiosities of Medical Experience 2012-03-09T03:00:20.410Z I had been permitted to come into the dining-room with the family, and was seated accidentally near the unconscious somnambulist. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 2011-12-27T03:00:07.217Z And he walked straight to his desk, eyes dead ahead like a somnambulist's, unheedful of the men who watched him silently with drawn, anxious faces. The Lash 2011-12-20T03:00:32.457Z To blame the doings of a family divided against itself is much the same as blaming the actions of somnambulists. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z This case is peculiarly interesting as proving that the perceptions of somnambulists are dependent upon conditions similar to those which govern the ordinary senses. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z But Frank never afterwards cared to have any allusion made to his night ramble, and resented almost warmly Fred Freeman’s attempt to dub him the “somnambulist.” Wild Adventures in Wild Places 2011-12-12T03:00:22.477Z When I sang Amina I was greatly complimented on my walk and my intonation, both most characteristic of a somnambulist. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z "You may be a somnambulist," said Dup�train; "very likely you were asleep when you got into the bath." San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Some people are somnambulists; in a sense she is a somnambulist too. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z When somnambulists are asked why they keep their eyes shut, they answer: "I do not know what you mean; I see you perfectly well." Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Plainly the somnambulist was vaguely conscious that a voice had spoken. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z If he were intercepted, Schoeffer would pose as a somnambulist and suffer himself to be led back to his cabin. The Wireless Officer 2011-10-24T02:00:17.560Z "If Monsieur Albert had chosen," said Monsieur Dup�train, "he would have made a first-class subject for magnetism; he had just the right look in his eyes to put himself in communication with a somnambulist." San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams 2011-11-14T03:00:22.247Z Something like what happens to a suddenly awakened somnambulist, perhaps. Chronicles of Martin Hewitt 2011-10-24T02:00:16.617Z On the other hand, time is no more an obstacle than space, and genuine somnambulists have seen past and future events as well as distant scenes. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z That thing of which she had read and heard, but never dreamt to be--a somnambulist. Miss Arnott's Marriage 2011-11-11T03:00:33Z But steadily, steadily works the earth-spirit, and the nations almost unconsciously—like somnambulists—carry out its will. Psychical Miscellanea Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, etc. 2011-10-01T02:00:35.717Z Not a bit of him; and presently he got up and scratched his poll and gazed about him like a somnambulist. Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy 2011-09-08T02:00:23.340Z "Oh!" replied Coyctier, with a coarse, diabolical laugh, "somnambulists have no recollection of their acts and deeds when they awake." The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z Other somnambulists also, as well as mesmerized persons, have seen the hair of persons shine with a multitude of sparks, while the breath of their mouth appeared as a faint luminous mist. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The case of Alexis, the noted French somnambulist and clairvoyant, is worthy of notice here. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z She is my daughter, and is a somnambulist, and consequently of unsound mind, at times. No title 2011-08-23T02:00:29.833Z One commanding officer sat helplessly on the spur of the hill, staring like a somnambulist, deaf to all consciousness of the outer world; another, lying among the trenches, was given up for dead. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 3 (of 6) From the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899, to Lord Roberts's Advance into the Free State, 12th Feb. 1900 2011-07-29T02:00:27.053Z The consoling picture he had conjured up was still before his mind; like a somnambulist he pushed through the crowd and got into a cab. The Chief Justice A Novel 2011-07-27T02:00:28.873Z In somnambulists, however, the eyes are generally closed or violently turned up; and in the rare cases in which they are open, they evidently see nothing. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z The somnambulist panted for breath, tears flowed down her face, and perspiration bathed her brow. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z His faculties handle his organs; the hands, like somnambulists, playing their under parts to ideas; these, again, serving uses still higher. Tablets 2011-07-25T02:00:17.487Z But Albert with a deep sigh sank senseless into the arms of the bystanders like a somnambulist suddenly aroused from a heavy slumber. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z The lookers-on moved as in a dream, as if they all were only half-awakened somnambulists, but the actors were simply victims of St. Vitus's dance. The Best Psychic Stories 2011-07-13T02:00:21.943Z The Romans also had their somnambulist prophets from the earliest days, and whenever the state was in danger, the Sibylline books were consulted. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z X. is asleep, but his subliminal self is on the alert—like the second self of the somnambulist or subject in the hypnotic trance—it sees that unless checked there will be a destructive conflagration. Telepathy and the Subliminal Self 2011-08-26T02:00:28.567Z A somnambulist who insists on stepping out of a solid window into the air. The Roycroft Dictionary Concocted by Ali Baba and the Bunch on Rainy Days. 2011-07-02T02:00:10.980Z His eyes were half-shut, his bowing suggested the performance of a somnambulist. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z His eyes were like those of a partially awakened somnambulist, and his voice had dreamy inflections. Jessamine A Novel 2011-06-15T02:00:24.413Z Magnetic and miraculous cures differ not in their nature, but only in their first cause, precisely as the trance of somnambulists is identical with the trance of religious enthusiasts. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z Mrs. Armstrong thinks that some one of us may be a somnambulist and have hidden the things in our sleep.” Witch Winnie's Mystery, or The Old Oak Cabinet The Story of a King's Daughter 2011-06-06T02:00:08.460Z But she knew that somnambulists did very strange things, and, of course, Aunt Sarah might be a sleep-walker. The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to 2011-05-31T02:00:34.950Z Meanwhile Akaki wandered about the streets like a somnambulist, at random and without an object. The Mantle and Other Stories 2011-05-29T02:00:07.233Z It wore a rapt expression of supreme exaltation, as if a somnambulist walked with eyes fixed on some goal beyond a yawning black chasm. A Speckled Bird 2011-05-06T02:00:09.097Z The immediate causes of night-walking are often most trivial; as Muratori, for instance, tells us of a priest who became a somnambulist whenever he neglected for more than two months to have his hair cut! Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z It is to be wished then that the spirits had on this occasion spoken less like somnambulists and uttered less indigested verse. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z In this crisis, I made a bold leap from this Devil's-torus, and leaping, snapped asunder my somnambulist tether. The Campaner Thal and Other Writings 2011-04-26T02:00:29.827Z What of these tiny statesmen, these sleek somnambulists who held lace handkerchiefs before their narrow mouths and laughed while fascism marched in Spain? The Five Arrows 2011-04-21T02:00:45.940Z The somnambulist has lost the use of his senses. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z She was a somnambulist, and subject to cataleptic attacks. Modern Magic 2012-01-01T03:00:09.557Z "Pretty good for a somnambulist," he conceded when I had done. I Walked in Arden 2011-04-10T02:00:06.137Z The Odiyan is also credited with the power, by means of certain medicines, of inducing sleeping persons to open the doors, and come out of their houses as somnambulists do. Omens and Superstitions of Southern India 2011-03-28T02:00:25.937Z Of old—the life of strayed somnambulists, When the right hand of God to Canaans blue The road of gold through gloaming deserts drew, Through morns and evenings swayed with shifting mists. Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell 2011-03-10T03:00:44.993Z The case of Jane C. Rider, known as the Springfield somnambulist, created in its time much wonder and speculation among intelligent persons acquainted with the facts. Studies in the Out-Lying Fields of Psychic Science 2011-04-14T02:00:40.453Z Cleve Verney was glad that he had pulled up before he stood upon the door steps; and he felt like an awakened somnambulist. The Tenants of Malory Volume 1 of 3 2011-03-04T03:01:04.443Z Passion walks, like a somnambulist, in entire security on the edge of profound abysses, so long as "sense is shut" in its eyes. 'O Thou, My Austria!' 2011-03-04T03:01:01.630Z She was making automatically for the garret, like a somnambulist, with no definite object, morbidly drawn towards the old home. The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z I did not want to warn or frighten you--no one arouses a somnambulist upon his dangerous walk. 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day 2011-02-09T03:00:49.283Z What is impossible?" asked the young man with intense bitterness, "that the somnambulist, who is suddenly waked to see the gulf at his feet, should be seized with giddiness? Danira 2011-02-06T03:00:59.460Z "In Nantes?" queried the duc vaguely, not understanding, speaking tonelessly like a somnambulist or a man in a trance. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z Yes, the somnambulist had wakened when his name had been called, out the call had been rude, and the awakening bitter. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z When I found Dr. Frœber alone, I told him that I believed the Count was unwell, that he had had frightful dreams, was possibly a somnambulist and would be dangerous in that condition. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z I felt like an awakened somnambulist at the brink of a precipice. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z The fact that these involuntary, reflex acts are performed with great precision, will explain why it is that accidents seldom befall the somnambulist, or sleep-walker, although he often ventures in most perilous places. A Treatise on Physiology and Hygiene For Educational Institutions and General Readers You don’t happen to be a somnambulist, do you? A Little World Like a somnambulist, she wandered on the brink of clefts and abysses, not heeding the perils of a path which she never would have dreamed of traversing in the broad light of day. Saint Michael A Romance 2011-01-31T03:00:12.470Z “Am I a madman or a somnambulist, or do I lead a double life?” A Double Knot "If Mademoiselle Marie be pleased to take it off we will place it as the doctor wishes in the hands of the somnambulist." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 She came back into the room, and moved about it like a somnambulist. Regina or the Sins of the Fathers She paused, looked down, commenced pulling at her gloves again with the self-absorbed gestures of a somnambulist. The Guarded Heights His face was so near hers that she could see every muscle in it quiver; his eyes gleamed with a wild fire, like the gaze of a somnambulist. In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. He gave a few directions, said a soothing word to Leah, who was gazing at him with a strangely intent expression, like that of a somnambulist, and then proceeded to his difficult task. The Children of the World Ah!" said the somnambulist, "what a magnificent country! The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Stein started like a somnambulist suddenly awakened and looked at her stupidly, then at the motionless girls in the shop. A Bed of Roses At George's question her form had lost its alertness and had assumed the unyielding lines of a somnambulist; and her voice had the colorless tone of one who speaks out of a dream. The Gray Mask In the interim he knew no more than a somnambulist what he was about. The Perfume of Eros: A Fifth Avenue Incident In the pose of his body he is a tight-rope walker, in the hitch of his legs he is a convict, in the blank stare of his face he is a somnambulist. Careers of Danger and Daring "The Prince," said the Marquis, "has often told me she is a somnambulist." The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Victoria started like a somnambulist aroused and looked at her vaguely. A Bed of Roses With the aimlessness of a somnambulist, and reasoning with himself the while, he walked down through Madison Avenue until he reached the square. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel Slowly Nivin levered his lank frame out of the chair and moved a pace like a somnambulist and stood staring at those fingers. Where the Pavement Ends But now, as in the case of the somnambulist, matter triumphed over mind. Renshaw Fanning's Quest A Tale of the High Veldt "I wish you to——" "No, no!" said the somnambulist. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 Lind in one of her extemporaneous effusions, which was a long and extremely difficult elaborate chromatic exercise, which the celebrated cantatrice tried by way of taxing the powers of the somnambulist to the utmost. Trilbyana The Rise and Progress of a Popular Novel The tension of thought gave to his features something of the ecstatic or the somnambulist. The Brain 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. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 The secretary entered the drawing-room with the unembarrassed step of a somnambulist. Eden An Episode In short, this threat of his made me quite a somnambulist. Eyes Like the Sea Over what highways of sea or sky, the living Word, which Ormuzd spoke, reached them, there has been no somnambulist of history to divine. The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal Nobody seemed to notice that there was a somnambulist passing by.... The Brain The words of the somnambulist recurred to him; he looked round for the old man—he was riding among the troops. Hungarian Sketches in Peace and War Constable's Miscellany of Foreign Literature, vol. 1 As a somnambulist might, she drew her mantle closer, and, moving to the wayside, ascended the hill. Mary Magdalen By a singular chance, I was one day led into the midst of the somnambulists. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 Like one subject to the power of magic, I had to go on--on--in the track of the spectre-like somnambulist. Weird Tales, Vol. II. Chronic somnambulists that they are, they took their monopolist way thither in their sleep. The Kempton-Wace Letters There might be found a plenty of nervous women, easy to excite, the very ones to make into somnambulists, subjects of miracle, bearers of mystic marks, and so forth. La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages But she remains as calm and cold and passionless as a somnambulist. Timar's Two Worlds He perceived that he was in presence of a somnambulist. Weird Tales. Vol. I Researches of this kind," Laycock continues, "whether instituted on the insane, the somnambulist, the dreamer, or the delirious, must be considered like researches in analytical chemistry. Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles And yet, comprehending this, he went to work slowly, and as a somnambulist might, acting almost by instinct, and well knowing that a blunder now meant irrevocable death. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8 Gallagher felt as if he had been suddenly dragged into consciousness out of a bad dream, and stood for a second like a half-awakened somnambulist. The Boy Scout and Other Stories for Boys What if we should prove to be somnambulists treading some dizzy edge between two abysses, and able to reach the goal only on condition that we are unconscious of the process? God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' A strange drive, and a queer little numbed driver, creaking along through the ghostly bush, exactly as a somnambulist might, the most of his faculties in abeyance. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography His visits to the spots where the money was concealed, were not conclusive of guilt, since he was a somnambulist, and in his sleep-walking he was not responsible for his actions. The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller He was angry till my mother assured him that I was a somnambulist and not responsible for what I did at such a time. Robert Coverdale's Struggle Or, On The Wave Of Success It was Baumgartner who had first caught sight of the somnambulist, treading warily like the blind, yet waving the revolver as he went, as though any moment he might let it off. The Camera Fiend Fouchette in the dazed way more characteristic of the somnambulist than of one awake and in the full possession of his senses. Mlle. Fouchette A Novel of French Life Through all the customary bustle of an ocean liner's departure, I moved slowly, silently, aloofly, as a somnambulist. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography The somnambulist had walked on earth for the last time. The Somnambulist and the Detective The Murderer and the Fortune Teller The eyes of the somnambulist are said to be open, and therefore there is every optical power of vision, and an increase of ordinary visual perception is all that is requisite. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 In somnambulists, who are the most suggestible people, we can produce or suppress amnesia at will by a single word, and make them forget or remember what has passed. The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study One learned man prophesied that all educated women would become somnambulists. The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV You pretend to be a somnambulist in order to carry out your ends. The Ivory Snuff Box I have not yet known a poor person's child a somnambulist. The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases Big Harry reeled into the living room like a somnambulist. Teething Ring The horses plodded along and doubtless were asleep too, doing their work as a somnambulist might, walking while they slept. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War The phenomena effected by magnetism, and the oracles uttered by the somnambulist, vary with every magnetiser. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 "I'm a somnambulist, only I somnambulate faster than most people." Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate They set their faces toward the golden north, and went on and on through every obstacle like men dreaming, like somnambulists—bending their backs to the most crushing burdens, their faces distorted with effort. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse Experiments of this kind succeeding in a great many somnambulists, and usually producing very curious results, have long been known and have been repeated, one might say, almost to satiety within the last few years. Introduction to the Science of Sociology He approached but did not touch her, for he had heard that it was dangerous to awaken a somnambulist. The Invader A Novel I asked my somnambulist, if she saw any thing: "certainly, I see something that shines; it hurts me." North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 I know: you are referring to your mother, and are haunted by an idea that through some hereditary taint you might be a somnambulist and have done these things in your sleep. Fantômas Late at night, when all honest ducks, excepting somnambulists and such as have vindications on hand, are asleep, Quackalina led the way back to the old nest. Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales Natural somnambulism similarly exhibits the force of ideas; whatever idea is conceived by the somnambulist, he carries into action. Introduction to the Science of Sociology The past lay behind her, as if she had traversed it, covered with a veil like one in a swoon, or with the unconsciousness of a somnambulist. Germinie Lacerteux In somnambulism there is only a disordered sensibility, and not an increase of it; and the pretended clairvoyance of the somnambulists, has no real existence, &c. &c. North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 In his hand he held a long military musket, and he dashed along on the tips of his slippers with the air of a somnambulist and with the nimbleness of a tiger. Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man His black hair that fell in a slant across his forehead and the rigidity of his eyes gave him the appearance of a somnambulist. Fantazius Mallare A Mysterious Oath Patiently she allowed herself to be lifted on the horse, and sat there like a somnambulist—as one who walked in his sleep. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen He returned to the front of the house, shambling like a somnambulist. The Day Time Stopped Moving Patiently she suffered the priest to lift her on the horse, and sat like a somnambulist, neither completely asleep nor wholly awake. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales It was altogether possible, as she told herself, that one of these keys should fit the somnambulist’s door. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Yet she dared not wake her, for stories of the serious harm which had befallen somnambulists, when wakened suddenly in unfamiliar surroundings, flashed through her brain, and she was nearly beside herself with anxiety. Caps and Capers A Story of Boarding-School Life She allowed herself patiently to be lifted upon the horse, and she sat on its back like a somnambulist, who was neither in a waking nor a sleeping state. The Sand-Hills of Jutland Her sleep was of that somnambulist character, so common in this country of moral and physical excitement. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 All of a sudden, Excourbani�s, who was swallowing his food like a somnambulist, came out of his plate, and sniffing the air about him, remarked: "I smell garlic!.." Tartarin On The Alps Her eyes, dark with bewilderment, sought his blankly like those of a somnambulist. The Secret Witness Love was impossible in such a place as that; and did he want confirmation of the fact that Katrine was a somnambulist, he felt that he had it here before him. The Dark House A Knot Unravelled “Oh, winged creature, winged creature,” he would say to himself, and smile like a somnambulist. The Goose Man The next morning I sent for the somnambulist, and asked him, without any apparent emotion, of what he had dreamt the preceding night? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 He now advances with lifted arms, open mouth, and his head towards Heaven, without seeing anything, like a somnambulist. The Temptation of St. Antony or A Revelation of the Soul In the same way the somnambulist accepts any fancies that you desire him to accept. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life "I don't care about your making fun of me," replied the poor somnambulist. In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. And yet she knew where they were; she knew, too, that it is dangerous to disturb a somnambulist by calling to him. The Goose Man It also should be observed that although somnambulists will light a candle, it does not follow that they are guided by its light, or that they really see any thing by it. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 What else could have brought her creeping like a somnambulist down the stairway to demonstrate her tormentor's demoniacal sovereignty? The Tyranny of the Dark Now these masters lay down that somnambulists have predicted events, and submitted without pain to cruel operations. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life Leaving the window open, as a somnambulist would naturally be expected to do, he crept softly over the roof, and reached the trellis without accident. In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. It is indisputable that the hands will follow the inclinations of the brains of somnambulists. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly We conceive, therefore, that somnambulists who may be considered in a state of preternaturally profound sleep, ought not to be forcibly awakened. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 But occasionally, a somnambulist has missed his footing, fallen, and perished. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 He started like a somnambulist awakened suddenly, and there was now some meaning in his stare; a sort of alarmed speculation. Chance A Tale in Two Parts Though Richard had every reason to be satisfied with the success which had attended his representation of the character of a somnambulist, he could not banish the doubts and fears that haunted him. In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. I told my wife that Colensoe was a somnambulist, and that he worked at the canvas equally as well whilst sleeping as waking. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly 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. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The somnambulist then, half waking in trance, is disposed to rise and move about. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847 His eyes continued to bulge from their sockets, and he looked like a suddenly-awakened somnambulist. A Chinese Command A Story of Adventure in Eastern Seas Yes, sir; your boy is unquestionably a somnambulist. In School and Out or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. He used no manipulations and had no baquet, but he boasted of having produced five thousand somnambulists by this method. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing May not the somnambulist walking through intricate passages and performing complicated manual operations in the dark, have his movements guided by this sense? Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Some held that he was a somnambulist and irresponsible for his acts; others that he was a murderer through love of blood, having no other possible motive for committing these crimes. The Dean's Watch She drove home with feverish cheeks, and when her husband spoke to her she gave him the blank stare of a somnambulist. Sacrifice For the most recent mile he had been, practically, a somnambulist. Fair Harbor I could not suspect the gentle little lady of conscious deceit, but with a knowledge of the wonderful deceptions of somnambulists and hysterics, I began to doubt. The Shadow World 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. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 Perhaps both were right, for it is an undeniable fact that moral being, will, soul, whatever name you choose to call it by, is wanting in the somnambulist. The Dean's Watch I thought at first that he was walking in his sleep,–for he was a somnambulist,–and gave him a shake. The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 "Where are you running to, uncle, just like a somnambulist?" Balthasar and Other Works - 1909 Mademoiselle Olivia," said Count Victor, "I am—what do you call it?—a somnambulist. Doom Castle Some somnambulists have not been able to distinguish wine from water. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 I would sooner have faced a dozen ghosts than a somnambulist. Tom, Dick and Harry Seymour Perhaps we are all somnambulists moving about in this dream-world we call practical life. The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays He walked along in the moonlight like a somnambulist, conscious of nothing but his pain. The Child of Pleasure He was brushed past as by a somnambulist, without greeting or question, though to accomplish it the other in the narrow stairway had to rub clothes with him. Doom Castle 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. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 A man in love wanders in the world as a somnambulist, with eyes that seem open to those that watch him, yet in fact view nothing but their own inward fancies. Henrietta Temple A Love Story He reached the house in which he was sojourning, and ascended the stairs slowly and with dilated eyes, like a somnambulist. Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia Penny was coming back, walking like a somnambulist, her brown eyes wide and fixed. Murder at Bridge He began to think that the footsteps had probably been made by some servant or by a somnambulist. Frank Merriwell's Reward Both answers were correct; and it may be here observed that somnambulists, if equivocated with in conversation, or in any way played upon, will express themselves annoyed, and betray angry feelings. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 These somnambulists will not hesitate either, you may be sure, to make a denunciation, or to bear false witness; they are, I repeat, the passive instruments of your will. Complete Hypnotism, Mesmerism, Mind-Reading and Spiritualism How to Hypnotize: Being an Exhaustive and Practical System of Method, Application, and Use "If I told you I was a somnambulist you wouldn't believe me, would you?" he replied. The Lost Valley Courant's kiss had brought her to a place toward which, she now realized, she had been moving for a long time, advancing upon it, unknowing, but impelled like a somnambulist willed toward a given goal. The Emigrant Trail This was owing to windows facing each other being left open, and as a result articles of clothing disappeared so mysteriously that we thought there must be a thief or a somnambulist on board. My Lady Nicotine A Study in Smoke Another somnambulist, a patient of Hufeland, used to say invariably, "I feel"—"I am conscious" of the existence of this or that object. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 My eyes, which were wide opened like those of a somnambulist, were fixed upon him, but I did not see him, nor could I clearly make out anything around me. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth Even his voice, when he was permitted to speak, had lost its timbre and suggested the voice of a somnambulist. The Mayor of Warwick He was taken to a 'somnambulist,' and felt 'magnetic' pulls and pushes, and a strong current of air. Historical Mysteries By virtue of this faculty of second sight, of intuitions like those of a somnambulist, he sees farther into the supernatural world than any one else whatever. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art Brimstone and phosphorus are said to have a pleasant scent to the somnambulist, but sometimes it appears completely abolished. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The somnambulist will now exhibit the utmost sensibility to suggestions made to him by the hypnotizer, so that he seems to be almost entirely controlled by the influence of the latter’s will. Moral Principles and Medical Practice The Basis of Medical Jurisprudence Now I'm not going to lose my best stool pigeon to please these somnambulists of the Secret Service. The President A novel "Unless one of you, or some servant you trust with the key, is a somnambulist," said Knight. The Second Latchkey In point of fact, the dreamer, not to speak of the somnambulist, is often conscious of voluntarily going through a series of actions. Illusions A Psychological Study In one case, a snuff-box filled with coffee, was given to a somnambulist, who took it as he would have taken snuff, without perceiving the difference. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 “Well, you had quite a hard fall, sir,” he said, in a loud, cheerful voice, and directly Carroll answered, like a somnambulist: “Yes, quite a fall.” The Debtor A Novel He came up to him pale and queer, like a somnambulist, and shook his fingers very cordially with a very cold grasp. The House by the Church-Yard He was not a somnambulist, as far as I knew. Romance As they were passing in front of a somnambulist's van, Monsieur de Fontrailles stopped and said to Madame d'Ormonde: "Would you like to have our fortune told?" The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 We had in the monastery in which I was formerly prior, a monk of melancholic temperament and sombre character, who was known to be a somnambulist. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 The moment came when with her eyes closed, like a somnambulist, she sniffed the perfume and began to seek its source. Atlantis He had up to this moved with her like a somnambulist. The House by the Church-Yard It was as if some barbarous somnambulists had mumbled in the daytime the bizarre atrocity of their thoughts. Romance It was in this fashion that Madame d'Ormonde, for the first and last time, deceived her husband; and it was at the fair at Saint Cloud, in a somnambulist's van. The Works of Guy de Maupassant, Volume 2 We remember meeting with the case of an Italian servant, who was a somnambulist, and who enjoyed the character of being a better waiter when he was asleep than when he was awake. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851 He must have, in an unconscious state of mind like a somnambulist, carried the dead body of Smith to his own house without being detected in the act. Indian Ghost Stories Second Edition Down the old river-path to the Hewsons' house, she had walked as if asleep, the glazed eyes of the somnambulist, staring in front, but seeing nothing. Sally Bishop A Romance When they post our bald somnambulist as missing from his flat We take soundings for the digger with a prop. 'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Amina, a rustic damsel, betrothed to Elvino, is a confirmed somnambulist, and her nocturnal peregrinations have given the village in which she dwells the reputation of being haunted by a spectre. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. Corona, like a somnambulist or a blind woman, went slowly toward the log cabin, holding out her hands before her. For Woman's Love —He thought that she bore herself and moved like a hypnotised person, like a somnambulist…. A Reckless Character And Other Stories He walked on with his arms hanging beside him, with his face turned towards the ground, seeing nothing, but taking long strides like a somnambulist who is guided by instinct. His Masterpiece They seem to be somnambulists who talk out and write out what they see and hear in their dreams. The Unpopular Review, Volume II Number 3 "Ah! madam, who could possibly attach any reality to the action of a somnambulist?" The Man-Wolf and Other Tales Was this a somnambulist, then, who wandered idly along through the silent streets, apparently seeing nothing of the closed doors and the shuttered windows on either hand? Macleod of Dare So the sight of Jimmy Wallace had something the effect that a sudden awakening has on a somnambulist—bewilderment at first, and after that a sort of panic. The Real Adventure Above all, rises to our ears from below the sound of Madame Prune's long prayers, ascending through the floor, monotonous as the song of a somnambulist, regular and soothing as the splash of a fountain. Madame Chrysantheme We left them after Harry had driven a stake to mark the place which the somnambulist had pointed out as indicating the concealed mine. Deadwood Dick, The Prince of the Road or, The Black Rider of the Black Hills Like a somnambulist, he received upon the pupils of his eye impressions which did not awaken a response in his reason. The Redemption of David Corson It was pretty evident, first, that I had a neighbor; secondly, that he spoke English; and thirdly, that he was either a somnambulist or a soliloquist. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy But his face was livid, his eyes like a somnambulist's, and he was afflicted as with a palsy. A Daughter of the Snows Throughout each day all things around him were dreamlike and unsubstantial, and he performed many actions as automatically as if he had been a somnambulist. The Devil's Garden The man had been standing over her, speechless, motionless, breathless, like some wretched somnambulist, suddenly awakened in the commission of a crime, and gazing in horror, amazement, and unbelief upon the work of his sleep. The Missing Bride And with the eyes of a somnambulist he looked down at his fingers and shook them as if blood were dripping from them. Là-bas A deep amazement fell upon the Cherokees of Citico—the sort of superstitious consternation that a somnambulist might feel in contemplating in broad daylight the deeds he had wrought in sleep-walking. The Frontiersmen For whoso takes much wine to bed with him, has a bedfellow, more restless than a somnambulist. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Dreamers, hypochondriacs, somnambulists; who, from the cark and care of outer Mardi fleeing, in the poppy's jaded odors, seek oblivion for the past, and ecstasies to come. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I The notion of a town of sleep, where men and women walked about in nightcaps, a nation of somnambulists, was the kind of thing that Browning in his heart loved better than Paradise Lost. Robert Browning She single-footed in like a derby colt, and the somnambulists in the front row begin to show cause. Pardners An angel could have as well been brought from the cabinet as a murderous somnambulist, and every act of his could have been a work of beneficence and health and healing. The Art of the Moving Picture As somnambulists fast-frozen in some horrid dream, ghost-like glide abroad, and fright the wakeful world; so that night, with death-glazed eyes, to and fro I flitted on the damp and weedy beach. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II Such things do not occur without cause, and he was not the sort of man to yield himself, physically and mentally, his will and his perceptions, to the unconscious caprice of a somnambulist. What Dreams May Come She had got to dream while awake, and, like a somnambulist, to perform acts in a semi-unconscious state. Recollections of My Youth She was making automatically for the garret, like a somnambulist, with no definite object—morbidly drawn towards the old home. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People A somnambulist, to whom a phantom had given a letter, might walk as he did. The Man Who Laughs Before a stairway leading to an upper floor, he stopped, and, with the dreamy, passive air of a somnambulist, ascended, entering through swinging doors a large, pleasant room, tapestried, ornamented with paintings and statuary. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts O sir! do not mock our dreamers, for now and then they speak, like somnambulists, wondrous things in sleep, and their words become the seeds of freedom. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The apothecary fixed upon it long and silently the gaze of a somnambulist. The Grandissimes They had forgotten to fix the hour for the next sitting: so, to repair the omission--by means of a few passes--the somnambulist was restored to sleep and lucidity. Delsarte System of Oratory Sue was indeed deeply absorbed in thoughts, walking with head bent and eyes fixed on the ground like a somnambulist. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Every one looked like a somnambulist as he pulled and hauled. Between the Dark and the Daylight A fancy to humbug him came over me, and I told him that I was a somnambulist, and must beforehand beg his pardon should I unwittingly disturb his slumbers. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Had you Not called me to the garden, I had not, Following a whim of curiosity, Made harmless fun of this somnambulist. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 04 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes Our Italian had another specialty: he was perpetually in search of some notorious somnambulist. Delsarte System of Oratory She felt like a somnambulist, and wondered how soon she would wake and find herself in her small and uncomfortable bed at the Court. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk Nick followed, and entered the room close behind the somnambulist. The Crime of the French Café and Other Stories By the glare of men's eyes it understood how all were somnambulists. A Tramp's Sketches Sir Bale signed towards the door; and like a somnambulist, with dilated gaze and pale as death, Philip Feltram, at his wit's end, went out of the room. J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Slim Simpson, white before, was like a corpse; only his great boyish eyes stared out, as a somnambulist stares, as one hypnotised. Where the Trail Divides He walked somewhat like a somnambulist, with eyes fixed—almost expressionless in the intensity of their gaze. The Nest of the Sparrowhawk That tone of the somnambulist, differing so slightly yet so distressingly from normal, waking speech, seemed to her somehow wicked. The Man Whom the Trees Loved Who of us but can see the wearing-away of nervous energy which took place with the perpetual care of a cancer and a somnambulist pressed also by the hard reading suggested by Dr. Arthur Lütze? A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia I went upstairs with madame, like a somnambulist. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Again within the ranch house, Mary Landor sank into a seat with the utter weariness of a somnambulist awakened. Where the Trail Divides Such evidence of unnatural knowledge might have convinced a more sceptical mind than Matilde's of the fact that the somnambulist could at least read her thoughts and memories from her mind as from a book. Taquisara Finding the drawing-room dark, he went upstairs, and spent some time between the bedroom and the dressing-room, changing his clothes, going to and fro with the air of a thoughtful somnambulist. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale She was a somnambulist; and, though weak enough when awake, threatened several times to pull the house down, by her violence in this condition. A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia To imagine while dreaming that you are a somnambulist, portends that you will unwittingly consent to some agreement of plans which will bring you anxiety or ill fortune. Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or what's in a dream: a scientific and practical exposition M. Petit was magnetised by M. Dupotet, who asserted that the somnambulist would be able to choose, with his eyes shut, a mesmerised coin out of twelve others. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 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. Taquisara In short, the night's work had so exhausted and worn out this actor in it, that he had become a mere somnambulist. Our Mutual Friend She was a most peculiar woman, and was a clairvoyant and somnambulist of the most decided kind. A Practical Illustration of "Woman's Right to Labor" A Letter from Marie E. Zakrzewska, M.D. Late of Berlin, Prussia Napoleon, "The mighty somnambulist of a vanished dream," had abolished feudalism and absolutism, made monarchs and dynasties obsolete, and substituted for the divine right of kings the sovereignty of the people. Democracy in America — Volume 1 The experiment was tried, and the somnambulist chose the wrong one. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 Bosio started uneasily, though like most Neapolitans, he had visited somnambulists more than once. Taquisara Willis cites an example in which the father and the children were somnambulists, and in other cases several individuals in the same family have been afflicted. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Almost with the abstraction of a somnambulist he stretched out his hand and gently caressed the flower. The Woodlanders A visitor from some bustling city might have rubbed his eyes, on any but a market-day, and imagined the whole town asleep—that the people were somnambulists and did not know it. The House Behind the Cedars Thus the somnambulist, though his eyes and ears are closed, not only sees and hears, but sees and hears much better than he does when awake. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 He thought he could hear the clear, bell-like voice of the somnambulist telling him that he should be forced to marry Veronica. Taquisara Schenck remarks on the particular way in which somnambulists seem to escape injury. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Annie was always regarded as a very nervous child; she was frequently a somnambulist until she was about 12. Pathology of Lying, accusation, and swindling: a study in forensic psychology He must have searched through the woods again that night just as a somnambulist searches, for he found himself towards dawn in the valley before the idol. The Blue Lagoon: a romance He would tell the somnambulist to raise her arm, and if she did not raise it, the limb was to be considered paralyzed. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 There was nothing at all unnatural in the name or the profession, in Naples, where somnambulists are plentiful enough. Taquisara In order to ascertain whether the somnambulist made any use of his eyes the Archbishop held a piece of cardboard under his chin to prevent his seeing the paper upon which he was writing. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine I was a nervous, sensitive boy, a dreamer, a somnambulist, full of impressions and intuitions. The Parasite It was a ramshackle affair, dragged along by a knock-kneed, broken-winded somnambulist, which his owner, in a moment of enthusiasm, during conversation, referred to as a horse. Three Men in a Boat Such is the wonderful sympathy," says the latter, "between the magnetiser and the somnambulist that he has known the latter to vomit and be purged in consequence of medicine which the former had taken. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 He had no more notion than a somnambulist of the mental process that had led up to this action. The Touchstone With those words uttered impetuously, Will rose, put out his hand to Rosamond, still with the air of a somnambulist, and went away. Middlemarch Madame Sand arrived, looking like a somnambulist, and remained half asleep all through the meal. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings It was Napoleon, the immense somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to advance. Les Misérables He boasted of having in his time produced five thousand somnambulists by this method. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 3 Slowly, like a somnambulist, she walks up to the table and sits down beside it, leaning her chin on her hand. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Bertha let her talk and hesitated to interrupt her with a word, as though she were a somnambulist wandering on the ridge of a roof. Bertha Garlan She has very slow gestures, the gestures of a somnambulist. George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Then a bewildered, struggling look came into his face, then a helpless look, and he stood staring vacantly, like a somnambulist, at the waiting audience. Stories Worth Rereading He moved and spoke like a somnambulist, with the same insulation from surrounding minds and superiority to material obstacles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862 No question but that he had locked the door securely, on leaving after his adventure with the charming somnambulist…. The Lone Wolf A Melodrama You know, my dear," she began, "I have a mania for somnambulists and fortune-tellers of all kinds. My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt I can see her now sitting in the doorway of the little house, hour after hour, staring into the woods like a somnambulist, one arm behind her head. Eleanor It was the dominant idea; as with the somnambulist whose perceptions are dead to every other subject save the one absorbing thought, and all subsidiary ideas linked with it by the subtle chain of association. The Golden Calf I must have walked like a somnambulist, without consciousness, and Top’s instinct brought me here after he rescued me from the waves. The Mysterious Island He thought that she moved and held herself like one hypnotised, like a somnambulist. Dream Tales and Prose Poems I saw the fact in a moment: the Lady Alice was a somnambulist. The Portent & Other Stories She wore a coral necklace in those days, and never took it off, and her long hair half hid her face, which had the unnatural, uncanny look somnambulists always wear. The Abbot's Ghost, or Maurice Treherne's Temptation A Christmas Story Faith is the reminiscence of that vague Eden whence our individuality issued, but which it inhabited in the somnambulist state anterior to the personal life. Amiel's Journal Mr. Beauclerc, now piqued, with a look and voice of repressed feeling, said, that he hoped her ladyship did not include him among that set of fashionable somnambulists. Tales and Novels — Volume 10 There used to be an excellent pilot on the river, a Mr. X., who was a somnambulist. Life on the Mississippi, Part 3. They walk about shyly, like somnambulists in brightly lighted streets. Men in War After that I was called the great somnambulist and men who had watermelon conservatories shunned me. Remarks A man may go on talking, teaching, writing—but the spring of personal action is broken; his actions are like the actions of a somnambulist. Amiel's Journal From a great distance Davray's words came to him, and in the dialogue that followed he spoke like a somnambulist. The Cathedral For many days there has not been a wind in the trees, and the landscape reminds me of a somnambulist—the same silence, the same mystery, the same awe. Memoirs of My Dead Life Thus sit the dead upon their graves in the silent night; thus gazes the somnambulist upon the living world around him. O. T. a Danish Romance Night came again at last, and with it other somnambulists similar to the first, only that they were riding on their own beasts. Remarks If I had but desired it ever so little, I should have had the magical clairvoyance of the somnambulist, and could have reproduced in myself a number of strange phenomena. Amiel's Journal As in the time of the siege, if you desire to obtain news of your mother or your wife, you have no other alternative than to consult a somnambulist or a fortune-teller. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) Much less could an I exist for us, except as it exists during the suspension of the will, as in dreams; and the nature of brutes may be best understood, by conceiving them as somnambulists. Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. That this is so is shown by the experience of somnambulists. The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer; On Human Nature The coyote slunk back to his home, but the somnambulist did not. Remarks The strange lucidity of the somnambulist still hung over her brain and mind, though outwardly she appeared troubled and confused. Three More John Silence Stories I am told by some one standing near me, that the orator is a monthly nurse, who used to be a somnambulist in her youth. Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) To which she replied, 'Well, if it comes to that, my merry somnambulist, what are you?' Right Ho, Jeeves Morange, as if unconscious of what went on around him, as if he were quite alone there, continued walking softly hither and thither like a somnambulist. Fruitfulness He seemed to think that he who starts out to be a somnambulist should never turn back. Remarks Now go to bed," he broke in; "you're talking like a somnambulist. The Mystery of the Boule Cabinet A Detective Story Now the somnambulists of our day fulfil the second and third conditions without dispute; and some account for the divining power by saying it is the effect of the increased activity of the soul. Sidonia, the Sorceress : the Supposed Destroyer of the Whole Reigning Ducal House of Pomerania — Volume 1 The lookers-on moved as in a dream, as if they all were only half-awakened somnambulists; but the actors were simply victims of St. Vitus's dance. From the Caves and Jungles of Hindostan The only possible solution was, that it might have been some somnambulist; and, in that case, it must have been some acquaintance who bad been in the house in his waking moments. The Old Stone House He did so at the request of other somnambulists. Remarks Then, remembering the shock experienced by a suddenly awakened somnambulist, and remembering that the Chinese ladder hung from the window at my feet, I changed my mind. Bat Wing He walked as a somnambulist down the street. Amanda — a Daughter of the Mennonites She went and came among them like a somnambulist, guided by unconscious instincts, memories, and habits. His Sombre Rivals She was subject at times to curious fits of self-absorption or absence of mind, and while she was under their influence she resembled a somnambulist rather than a sane human being awake. Clara Hopgood The other somnambulists then took the mule safely back to his corral, and the tragedy of a night was over. Remarks Absolutely disinterested friends I do not seek, as I should only find them among idiots or somnambulists. Cashel Byron's Profession That faint touch of the somnambulist had passed. The Great Impersonation He may even feel like a victim of chronic insomnia, and fancy himself obliged to bring his clear, sleepless, and conscious life into touch with somnambulists and ghostly well-intentioned creatures. Thoughts out of Season Part I On the next day I sent for the somnambulist and asked him what he had dreamed of during the preceding night. The Physiology of Taste He then fully realized that he had made his debut as a somnambulist. Remarks Gallegher felt as if he had been suddenly dragged into consciousness out of a bad dream, and stood for a second like a half-awakened somnambulist. Short Stories for English Courses His eyes became fixed and staring,—resembling the glassy orbs of the somnambulist. The Beetle When the somnambulist's deliberate progress toward the mouth of the well continued he called her name softly. Rainbow's End There was," said he, "before I went to Pierre Chatel, a monk of a very melancholy humor, whose character was very sombre, and who was looked upon as a somnambulist. The Physiology of Taste Some somnambulists ride their own animals, while others are content to bestride the steeds of strangers. Remarks I had heard of dreams that kill, of unconscious murder, of the terrible acts of the subconscious somnambulist of which the actor has no recollection in the waking state until put under hypnotism. The Dream Doctor The world of claw and fang and fist and club has passed away—so say the somnambulists. Revolution, and Other Essays In the doorway stood Liubka, grown thin, with dark rings under her eyes, and, just like a somnambulist, was searching with her hand for the door-knob, as a point of support. Yama: the pit But he moved towards her, the strangest look in his eyes, the fixed expressionless gaze of a somnambulist. The Crown of Life Attracted and fascinated by his heroes, his thoughts and intentions gradually turn more and more towards them, till one fine day we find him walking among us like a somnambulist. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic The word applied very well to Rosamund's condition; her fixed eyes were like those of a somnambulist. Will Warburton The red animal in the somnambulist will out. Revolution, and Other Essays Stephen, having listened with a face of a somnambulist, went to the mantel-piece and looked into the teapot. The Nether World And in the street she walked like a somnambulist, with wide eyes, straight on. The Whirlpool Once the illusion has been created, Don Quixote develops it logically enough in all its consequences; he proceeds with the certainty and precision of a somnambulist who is acting his dream. Laughter : an Essay on the Meaning of the Comic We wonder superfluously when we hear of a somnambulist walking a plank securely,—we have walked a plank all our lives up to this particular string-piece where we are. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers They do not really know the meaning of these phrases, but they think they do, and that is all that is necessary for somnambulists. Revolution, and Other Essays As he led her along the street, she staggered from the numbness that possessed her, and her eyes stared blankly, like those of a somnambulist. At the Mercy of Tiberius Barbarina, if I dream, if I am a somnambulist, do not awaken me! Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Marie appeals to the King to spare her lover's life, and Louis, on investigating the matter, discovers that Cornelius is a somnambulist, and has been robbing himself and burying his gold. Balzac Calm and cool, he acted under the power of an hallucination, almost like a somnambulist. The Widow Lerouge Yet in the world of the somnambulists, where soar the sublimated spirits, there are no classes, and foul blows are continually struck and never disallowed. Revolution, and Other Essays To Vera Timanoff Dear illustrious One, I don't know how you will manage to adapt the "Sonnambula" to your little hands; they will have to trot about on the roofs in the style of somnambulists. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End It is high time that Germany, which is now tottering about like a somnambulist, should be aroused by a manful word from her slumber, so as to take heart again and draw the sword. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times They came into the Strand, and the masses of moving people seemed to her like somnambulists walking without reason or purpose. The Captives I am a somnambulist, who, with smiling courage, moves along a dizzy height; call me by name, and I shall awake, and, shuddering, plunge into the abyss beneath. Henry VIII and His Court It is a blow of the fist between the eyes of the somnambulists, teetering up and down, muttering magic phrases, and thanking God that they are not as other animals. Revolution, and Other Essays Finally Richards got up and strode aimlessly about the room, ploughing his hands through his hair, much as a somnambulist might do who was having a bad dream. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Then he rose slowly, and like a seer or a somnambulist, with eyes opened but seeing nothing, he went to his piano without knowing what he was doing. Louisa of Prussia and Her Times It is only a bid for a somnambulist. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 2 (1867-1875) He had heard of cases of somnambulists who, on being startled from their unnatural sleep, only woke to die. Beatrice But between the men on the hillside and the somnambulists of the column, six hundred, about equally divided between the Irish Rifles and the Northumberland Fusiliers, had been left as prisoners. The Great Boer War Coming just then, its contents produced upon Mademoiselle V--- the effect of a pail of water upon a somnambulist. A Changed Man; and other tales They might have been somnambulists for all they saw of us, or of the Boer trenches and the battle-field before them. Notes of a War Correspondent Hurriedly closing her door, she locked and bolted it, firmly convinced that Gabriel Lane was harboring in the guise of Uncle Sylvester a somnambulist, a maniac, or an impostor. Sally Dows I do not know whose colors I wore—the Benician's, or those of the Irish champion; nor remember where the fight took place, which, indeed, no somnambulist is bound to recollect. Roundabout Papers Like a somnambulist aroused from her sleep Natasha went out of the room and, returning to her hut, fell sobbing on her bed. War and Peace Much less could an I exist for us except as it exists during the suspension of the will, as in dreams; and the nature of brutes may be best understood by considering them as somnambulists. Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit and Some Miscellaneous Pieces He carried his head well up, but he had the expression of a somnambulist struggling with the very dream which drives him forth to wander in dangerous places. Under Western Eyes A somnambulist on shipboard was clearly a humorous object, who might, however, become a bore. The Crusade of the Excelsior Such must have been Mr. Pike’s profundity of passion, that he paused like a somnambulist, actually rubbed his eyes with the back of his hand, and seemed to awaken. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Her waking will and conscience had asserted themselves in her sleeping acts; and the memory of the somnambulist lived still in the waking woman. David Elginbrod I'm not a somnambulist and never was, to my knowledge. He Fell in Love with His Wife And, remembering the expression of the young man's face seen not much more than four hours ago, the look of a haunted somnambulist, I wondered with a sort of awe. Under Western Eyes But his furtive movements had not the serene impassibility of the somnambulist. The Crusade of the Excelsior From his gait and carriage, the moon, which shone brightly in the sky, must have taken him for a madman, or a somnambulist. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels "Like a — somnambulist," answered Hugh, choosing the word for its intensity. David Elginbrod "Hullo!" said Mr. Scogan, catching him by the arm; dazed and hardly conscious of what he was doing or where he was, Denis stood there for a moment like a somnambulist. Crome Yellow Mrs. Clapp was obliged to ask Uncle Dozie to accompany her home; and as he was no somnambulist, with all his napping, he carried his niece safely to her own door. Elinor Wyllys, Volume 1 Like a somnambulist wrenched from sleep, Vera gave a scream of fright, half genuine, half assumed, and swayed as though about to fall. Vera, the Medium "That is the mole," thought he, and he fancied he could hear the voice of the somnambulist cry: "Take away that mole! it hurts me!" The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels But he heard me as a somnambulist might have heard me—dreaming with his eyes open. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English At this point the somnambulist suddenly woke up. Crome Yellow I had walked in this garden like a somnambulist in the sun. The Trees of Pride As though already in a trance, she moved slowly, without volition, like a somnambulist. Vera, the Medium At length this sinister somnambulist stirred from his motionless position and advanced at a slow pace; he walked like an automaton. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels Had a light been flashed on him suddenly he would have appeared like a man walking in his sleep: the somnambulist of an eternal dream. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows Basil, who walked behind, with his face turned blindly to the stars, had the look of a somnambulist. The Club of Queer Trades I think there are many such somnambulists in our set and our society; stunned with health, drugged with good manners, fitting their surroundings too well to be alive. The Trees of Pride Down went his happiness, just as a somnambulist, having attained the peak of a roof, hears a voice, awakes, and falls crushed upon the pavement. Modeste Mignon He could not look without shuddering at the place where he had stood like one petrified, listening to the horrible groans of the somnambulist. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels He started like a somnambulist awakened suddenly, and there was now some meaning in his stare; a sort of alarmed speculation. Chance A Tale in Two Parts "Ha!" cried Coyctier, bursting into a diabolical, coarse laugh, "somnambulists never remember on their waking what they have done when asleep." Maitre Cornelius They said she was a somnambulist, and the Pole was a magnetizer who was using her to discover the philosopher's stone. Paz I must have walked like a somnambulist, without any knowledge of my steps, and Top must have guided me here, after having dragged me from the waves... The Mysterious Island When he turned his eyes upon the Count again, he could not repress a shudder, for he fancied he saw the somnambulist. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels Bernheim demonstrated upon a hypnotized patient how the amnesia of the somnambulist is only an appearance. The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10 "Love for whom?" asked the doctor, who, until now, would have listened to no word said to him by somnambulists. Ursula Finally Richards got up and strode aimlessly about the room, ploughing his hands through his hair, much as a somnambulist might do who was having a bad dream. The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg So he left her to remain in the shop in a waking trance, and went away himself down the street like a somnambulist. The Game This young man is a somnambulist, and the conclusion of your little story is, that his window must be barred. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: French novels The happy dreamer wandered into storm-areas like a somnambulist, and wandered out again unawakened. The Turmoil, a novel The two friends returned to the house opposite to the Assumption and found the somnambulist, who in her waking state did not recognize Doctor Minoret. Ursula He found himself sitting on the edge of the bed and staring about him like an awakened somnambulist. Martin Eden I stared anxiously about me like an awakened somnambulist. 'Twixt Land and Sea At night, asleep, he lived with the gods in colossal nightmare; and awake, in the day, he went around like a somnambulist, with absent stare, gazing upon the world he had just discovered. Martin Eden |
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