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  • An example is maybe you nightmared that your leg was cut off in say, a garbage disposal accident.

    These Dreams We Are Having Tara Cottrell 2009

  • An example is maybe you nightmared that your leg was cut off in say, a garbage disposal accident.

    These Dreams We Are Having 2009

  • Not only were both main characters abused as a child each in their own horrific and brutal manner, the abuse is ongoingingly flashbacked, nightmared, contemplated, referred to, dealt with, breakthroughed and used as plot bait to within an inch of its life.

    Killed! « Whatever 2006

  • This was like some vision of planetary armageddon -- the type of thing that primitive civilizations nightmared about -- but blown up to a galactic scale.

    A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992

  • He nightmared Evoe's abduction and woke sick with anguish.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • I do not think it would be pleasant to be nightmared to death.

    The Hour of the Gate Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984

  • Taxation, which kills a weak country crippled by feudal laws and nightmared by an extravagant court and nobility, simply induces fresh and vigorous effort to make additional profits in a land of endless resources and of vast territory, where every man is free to work at what he chooses.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 3, March, 1862 Various

  • In his sleep the blowee was straightway nightmared with the dream that all the winds of heaven had drawn to a focus in his ear, where they did yell and hound him on through the world.

    Tiger-Lilies. A Novel. 1867

  • Nor did I reflect that it was a calling people from the nightmared slumber of frozen orthodoxy or bigotry to come and see a marvellous new thing.

    Memoirs Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Have I not risen refreshed from sleep? not nightmared by the cutting sarcasms of some noble earl on my fresh-gilt coronet, some slighting allusion to my

    Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General Charles James Lever 1839

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