He did not know. He was not conscious of speaking them, yet he seemed to hear them. He looked at the blackness. And again it surely moved. Again he surely saw it gathering itself together, and towering up as a wave towers. His sensation was absolutely one of nightmare. And exactly as in a nightmare a man feels that he is no longer fully himself, has no longer the power to do any manly or effective thing, so Artois felt now. It seemed to him that he was nothing, and yet that he was hated.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
"Ah, tell me more about them," she said. "I want to get this nightmare out of my head. Sylvia, now. Sylvia is a good cure for the nightmare. Is she kind as she is fair, Michael?"
Michael was silent for a moment. Then he turned a quiet, radiant face to her. "I can't talk about it," he said. "I can't get accustomed to the wonder of it."
"That will do.英文原著 · 《Michael》
The girl made no response. She lived still in the nightmare of murder--that nightmare wherein she had seen Griggs fall dead to the floor.英文原著 · 《Within the Law》
"'Tis like a nightmare," she said--"as if one dreamed, and choked, and panted, and would scream aloud, but could not. I cannot! I must not! Would that I might shriek, and dash myself upon the floor, and beat my head upon it until I lay--as HE does."英文原著 · 《A Lady of Quality》
We were in a land where none could strive or cry out; a white nightmare. The moon looked at me across the valley like the enormous eye of a hypnotist; the one white eye of the world.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
Her choice was usually judicious; she omitted the ghosts and goblins that would have haunted our dreams; although I was now and then visited by a nightmare-consciousness of being a bewitched princess who must perform some impossible task, such as turning a whole roomful of straws into gold, one by one, or else lose my head. But she blended the humorous with the romantic in her selections, so that we usually dropped to sleep in good spirits, if not with a laugh.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》