I was a somnambulist when I was young but now I do not move as I sleep through the night. From LearnThat.org.
V — — the effect of a pail of water upon a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
She uttered another cry, rubbing her hands like a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
She arose as gracefully as a dancer, as serenely as a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Dreams of Reality, 5] Reference
But occasionally, a somnambulist has missed his footing, fallen, and perished. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
The somnambulist then, half waking in trance, is disposed to rise and move about. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
“It is time for the spirit to leave us,” he murmured in a somnambulist voice. From Wordnik.com. [Kangaroo] Reference
Like a somnambulist functioning without conscious awareness, she opened the case. From Wordnik.com. [From This Beloved Hour]
Penny was coming back, walking like a somnambulist, her brown eyes wide and fixed. From Wordnik.com. [Murder at Bridge] Reference
"Ah! madam, who could possibly attach any reality to the action of a somnambulist?". From Wordnik.com. [The Man-Wolf and Other Tales] Reference
He thought that she moved and held herself like one hypnotised, like a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
I could those things in my sleep, and often did, a somnambulist ekeing out a living. From Wordnik.com. [notes from the peanut gallery] Reference
His eyes became fixed and staring, -- resembling the glassy orbs of the somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [The Beetle] Reference
In the case of a female somnambulist described in "The Philosophy of Natural History," by. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
If, as Mirsky suggests, I was sleeping during all this I must be an accomplished somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Weekend] Reference
XZMs can explain somnambulist-effect, double-personality, and many illogical or bizarre activities. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain, A Decoded Enigma] Reference
He approached but did not touch her, for he had heard that it was dangerous to awaken a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [The Invader A Novel] Reference
Almost with the abstraction of a somnambulist he stretched out his hand and gently caressed the flower. From Wordnik.com. [The Woodlanders] Reference
I began to think of getting out of her way, as you would for a somnambulist, stood still, and looked up. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of Darkness] Reference
Her sleep was of that somnambulist character, so common in this country of moral and physical excitement. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
I thought at first that he was walking in his sleep, -- for he was a somnambulist, -- and gave him a shake. From Wordnik.com. [The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879] Reference
Usually all we hear about is "I have a Dream," as if Dr. King won his Nobel Peace Prize for being a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpts From Edwards' Scheduled Antiwar Speech On Hillary's Turf] Reference
From there, things mellow out considerably, with Ms. Gibbons sticking closer to the somnambulist folk of Mr. Drake. From Wordnik.com. [Going Ape Over Gibbons; But Not Willie's Weak Guests] Reference
She drove home with feverish cheeks, and when her husband spoke to her she gave him the blank stare of a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
Like a somnambulist, he received upon the pupils of his eye impressions which did not awaken a response in his reason. From Wordnik.com. [The Redemption of David Corson] Reference
He felt like an awakened somnambulist who should find that he had been accessory to a tragedy during his unconsciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Two on a Tower] Reference
He reached the house in which he was sojourning, and ascended the stairs slowly and with dilated eyes, like a somnambulist. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
John Turnel, the Sheriff of London, is the somnambulist, and he suspects his own daughter and his cook of stealing his money. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac] Reference
Brimstone and phosphorus are said to have a pleasant scent to the somnambulist, but sometimes it appears completely abolished. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
He moved and spoke like a somnambulist, with the same insulation from surrounding minds and superiority to material obstacles. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference
He happened to wake up while the somnambulist was in his chamber, and, not knowing his infirmity, caught hold of him and gave him. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a somnambulist will go on working in his sleep. From Wordnik.com. [The Road to Wigan Pier] Reference
Castelli, another somnambulist, was found by Dr. Soames translating Italian into French, and looking out the words in his dictionary. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
It was pretty evident, first, that I had a neighbor; secondly, that he spoke English; and thirdly, that he was either a somnambulist or. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
It's The Cabinet of Caligari here, with the mesmerist (O'Reilly) sending out a mass suggestion to its suggestible somnambulist audience. From Wordnik.com. [Steven Weber: Bill O'Reilly: Culture Terrorist] Reference
Another somnambulist, a patient of Hufeland, used to say invariably, "I feel" -- "I am conscious" of the existence of this or that object. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
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