night-mare

Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of night-mare;

Chapter 21 2010

Towards morning I was possessed by a kind of night-mare;

Chapter 4 2010

It was a night-mare, unbelievable, but in those few minutes, while dreadful grunts and an occasional choked-off scream came out of the dark, I strove to make some sense of it.

Fiancée 2010

"So when a person experiences something frightening at night, he calls it a night-stallion or a night-mare."

Falcon Street 2010

When you have been tranquil for a while, as I had been at Starotorsk, and then dreadful things begin to happen to you, one after another, it all seems like a terrible night-mare; you have to force your mind to steady up and take it all in, and make yourself understand that it is happening.

The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

Now, according to an account in the New York Times, Seán has decided to take on a wholesale hack job of perhaps Hemingway's best regarded later work to put out his amateur night-mare notion of a "restored edition."

Thomas Lipscomb: Fast Moves with A Moveable Feast 2009

As to the wife — oh how like a night-mare is the thought of being bound for life to one of my cousins!

The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

Davy Jones and the aboriginal night-mare, could Hell be?

Vailima Letters 2005

I heard and saw everything as if under the spell of a night-mare.

The Purcell Papers 2003

The night-mare became torture; with a strong effort I threw off sleep, and recalled reason to her wonted functions.

The Last Man 2003