Somnambulic

Word SOMNAMBULIC
Character 11
Hyphenation som nam bu lic
Pronunciations N/A

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He was also a victim to somnambulic propensities, and very set in his ideas. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Had he not inadvertently fallen asleep with his mind in such condition, the somnambulic demon would not have been invoked, nor would Jim Cardegee have gone mining next day with a dish-pan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When it was put on top of the omnibus, and we were in probably unparalleled readiness for starting to the station, at an hour when scarcely anybody else in Valladolid was up, a mule composing a portion of our team immediately fell down, as if startled too abruptly from a somnambulic dream. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I love better to go through the old orchards of ungrafted apple-trees, at whatever season of the year, -- so irregularly planted: sometimes two trees standing close together; and the rows so devious that you would think that they not only had grown while the owner was sleeping, but had been set out by him in a somnambulic state. ❋ Various (N/A)

On her fifth hypnotisation, however, Lucie underwent a kind of catalepsy, after which she returned to the somnambulic state; but that state was deeper than before. ❋ William T. Stead (N/A)

If a few women of this age could be mesmerized and kept in the magnetic state five hundred years, and then unlocked from the somnambulic fetters, how would they compare with the women of that future age? ❋ George Sumner Weaver (N/A)

"Yes, Mac, the new life dawns upon me, -- no Plotinian trance, no somnambulic introspection, but a genuine awakening of the soul to a sense of its own beauty." ❋ Various (N/A)

A somnambulist, at Berlin, in one of her paroxysms, wandering in her sleep, was guilty of an indiscretion which she had no recollection of in her waking hours; but, when she again became somnambulic, she communicated all the circumstances to her mother. ❋ Various (N/A)

Any suggestion uttered by M. Janet in a brusque tone of command reached the Unconscious Self alone; and other remarks reached the subject -- awake or somnambulic -- in the ordinary way. ❋ William T. Stead (N/A)

In this state, the mind seems to struggle, in its connection with the body, to give utterance to its emotions; and it is reasonable to believe the greater the intensity of the dream-conception, the clearer will be the articulation of the voice, and the greater, also, the precision of the somnambulic movements. ❋ Various (N/A)

When the somnambulic state becomes more intense, the voluntary muscles of the limbs are excited into action; the somnambulist rises; dresses himself; and in pursuing his dream-imagery, wanders about, or sits down steadily to execute some task, which, however difficult in his waking hours, he now accomplishes with facility. ❋ Various (N/A)

Bellini, and others of their great maestros, and "Lucia di Lammermoor" lamented her lost love, and the amiable Amina sobbed forth her somnambulic sorrows for her false lover, upon these very boards. ❋ W. Hastings Macaulay (N/A)

In her case the somnambulic life has become the normal life; the "second state," which appeared at first only in short, dream-like accesses, has gradually replaced the "first state," which now recurs but for a few hours at long intervals. ❋ William T. Stead (N/A)

The somnambulic sleep, or trance, is induced in the subject whose voluntary powers are no longer under his control, and the involuntary processes are well-nigh suspended. ❋ William Walker Atkinson (1897)

Had he not inadvertently fallen asleep with his mind in such condition, the somnambulic demon would not have been invoked, nor would Jim Cardegee have gone mining next day with ❋ Jack London (1896)

The putting of his body into a somnambulic sleep for three days can only be denoted an outer event in comparison with the greatness of the transformation which was taking place in him. ❋ Rudolf Steiner (1893)

He abstained therefore from the magnetic manipulations and produced the somnambulic state by making the patients simply fixate his hands and by ordering them to sleep. ❋ Hugo M��nsterberg (1889)

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