daymare

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Well, I keep having this re occuring daymare that we miss the playoffs by one point.

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  1. A feeling resembling that experienced in nightmare, but felt while awake. The daymare, Spleen, by whose false pleas Men prove mere suicides of ease. Green, The Spleen. A monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them! Dickens, David Copperfield, viii.

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  • Well, I keep having this re occuring daymare that we miss the playoffs by one point. —  Rangers Report
  • Article: totem destroyer spot the difference memory checker split words coign of vantage open doors daymare town previously on web zen: mind games zen Permalink for this edition. —  Feeds4all documents in category 'SEO'
  • What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlour, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it, everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them! —  David Copperfield
  • It so happened, however, that at the very moment the Mouse began his conversation with the Sentry, the Owl awakened with a start from a bad daymare, and all but hooted with fright. —  Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly
  • In the meantime, the recollection of this sin of mine has been my nightmare and daymare too, and the sin has been the 'Blot on my escutcheon.' —  The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
 

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