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Definition of Nightmares
1. nightmare [n] - See also: nightmare
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nightmares
Literary usage of Nightmares
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. William Gilmore Simms by William Peterfield Trent (1892)
"ROMANTIC DREAMS AND POLITICAL nightmares. DURING the twelve years from 1850 to
1861 inclusive, Simms lived in two very different worlds. ..."
2. Your Child from One to Six by Richard H. Granger, M.D. (1995)
"Why Do Children Have nightmares?—An especially tiring or overactive day, or a
day in which some upsetting event happens may be the cause of nightmares. ..."
3. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"CHAPTER VI OPERA nightmares AN INDULGENT PUBLIC — PROGRESS — ENGAGEMENT AT GENOA —
PALAZZO PICCASSO — SUCCESS — THE DE LORENZIS OUR GUESTS — A DEVOTED ..."
4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... Phenomena of the World—Pervading Spirits as good and evil Demons affecting
man—Spirits manifest in Dreams and Visions : nightmares ; Incubi and Succubi ..."
5. Ordeal by Battle by Frederick Scott Oliver (1915)
"Indeed it was less dream than nightmare ; and in some degree, no doubt, it owed
its origin, like other nightmares, to a sudden surfeit— to a glut of ..."
6. Science from an Easy Chair by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"... its cleanser from the crippling infection of prehistoric error and from
domination by the terrifying nightmares of our half-animal ancestry. ..."
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