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Taste changes in horrors, as in other things, and "Ambrosio, or The Monk," would give nightmares to few modern readers.
But looking southward from this point, we had the satisfaction of seeing that intolerable river dragging its slimy length and ugly freight abruptly off towards New Orleans; and passing a yellow line which stretched across the current, were again upon the clear Ohio, never, I trust, to see the Mississippi more, saving in troubled dreams and nightmares.
Ducks often go to sleep flying and have nightmares." "I won't do it again, please don't get cross now." She laid her hand on his. He smiled and said nothing. "You're not angry, Jim?" she asked, peeping around shyly. She was sitting in the front of the boat with her back toward him. "How could any man get angry at such a wonderful shot.
"I may have said it was 'weird," he admitted, "but that's rather different to saying it was 'comic. There is dignity in weird things. For example, nightmares aren't comic but they're weird." "Thank you," she said pointedly. "Not that I mean your name is anything approaching a nightmare."
The electric cars, the crowds, the murders they read of and are told of, the bandits in the picture-shows, the fearful stranglers of Paris, the lynchers, the police, who in the films are always beating the poor, as in real life, the pickpockets, and the hospitals where willy-nilly they render one unconscious and remove one's vermiform appendix all these are nightmares to the aborigines whose relations are departing.
The spiritual voyage that had begun five years ago amidst a stormy succession of theological nightmares had reached harbour at last. He was established now in the sure conviction of God's reality, and of his advent to unify the lives of men and to save mankind. Some unobserved process in his mind had perfected that conviction, behind the cloudy veil of his vacillations and moods.
The opium naturally had the effect of making us both dream, and as we took similar doses of the same mixture, under similar circumstances, it is scarcely extraordinary that it should have effected the same portion of the brain, and caused a certain similarity in our dreams. In all nightmares something terrible happens, or is on the point of happening; and so it was here.
I slept very soundly, although with bad dreams nightmares which I ascribed to a late and heavy dinner, inasmuch as the peaceful occupations of the previous day consisting in viewing many promising crops and well-fed sheep, together with catching up with all sorts of police arrangements relating to dike, fire, and roads could not have occasioned them.
Second Cataclysm in the House; of the Dark Cloud obscuring the New Day, and the Violets that had faded behind a Curtain, etc.; but chiefly of a Little Talk with Mamma, which produced Moral Results, after all. The foolish nightmares receded; the sad faces of a dream dwindled again into air; and she waked suddenly in the sunshine to find herself quite well.
Of "Catholics" they had been accustomed to speak since childhood as of nightmares and Red Indians with bloody scalps at their waists; and perhaps that instinctive terror of the subtle heart of Rome is the religious prejudice which we will do well to part with last.
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