Meaning of nightmarey | Babel Free

Definitions

Alternative spelling of nightmary.

alt-of, alternative

Examples

“"What happened next I can scarce describe⟳, for it sometimes seems to me as if it wasn't I myself who went through it all, but some one else in a tale, or myself in a nightmarey sort⟳ of a dream⟳. […]”

“To what low degree of criminal degeneracy must man fall⟳ to subject a human being to the ante-operative anxiety, to the shock⟳ of the anesthesia, to the post-operative vomiting and retching, to the pain of the wound, to the danger of infection, to the horrible paralytic distension of the bowels, to the nightmarey nights, to the fear of death — and all for some wretched lucre or rotten "reputation."”

“The house itself, which was built before the arrival of the von Ernsts, looked, in an uncertain nightmarey way, like⟳ the blurred skyline of a cathedral town.”

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