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...think," he said, "that psychology will ever fully account for this matter of dreams. I once had so strange an one, fulfilled in so strange a way - I hardly know how to begin my story; and perhaps after all I should only weary...
...hour, I took her hand a moment, - I suppose we had drawn very near together during that moonlight interview, - and held it in mine somewhat longer than the occasion demanded, perhaps. She did not withdraw it, but looked at me shyly through the loveliest blue eyes I had ever seen (so I thought then) and was altogether so bewitchingly pretty, that I - quickly stooped and kissed her. She left me suddenly enough, then; but I could not tell whether I had offended her or not. I thought not. You may laugh as much as you choose, young friend...
...improbable that he might have witnessed the some what startling finale to the evening's comedy. However, it could not be helped. As to his favor or disfavor, he was always a moody, eccentric sort of man, and I had no reason to think that he had ever liked me better than I had liked...
...seemed to be walking down a long hall, that ever opened before me in an endless vista. At last, far off, white and pale, I saw the figure of a woman coming towards me swiftly, terribly, like a ghost; I, coward enough in my dream, tried to turn away from her. I could stir neither hand nor foot. I pray God I may never again experience that feeling of powerless, supernatural terror. She drew nearer and nearer; and I recognized the face of Bertha Carlin. Then suddenly she stopped, pointed backward; the hall disappeared, the broad sea was before...
...Imagine, if you can, the shock that the discovery gave me: it was the first time, to my knowledge, that I had ever been guilty of sleep-walking. I could hardly believe that I was yet awake. I hurried shivering back to the hotel, found the door of my bed-room open; else I might have had some trouble in re-entering it. I wrapped myself up in blankets, and tried to collect my scattered senses...