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He himself had no great desire to sleep, thoughts of the day's events would give him the night terrors for certain.
This was not the jitters one would get before a battle, or even the childish night terrors she got when one of her nightmares hit her.
Many parents have experienced the world of nightmares, night terrors and sleep paralysis with at least one of their children.
No one at Holy Angels invited me to their sleepovers anymore, on account of my loud, thrashing night terrors.
The terrors of the early 21st century will be as remote to their lives as Viking longships are to ours.
Fantasy, by contrast, enables writers to confront the terrors of our time by way of parabolic indirection.
God to me is simply an artefact of my brain, a curiosity that has evolved to appease the terrors of contemplating my own end.
I only hope that I am able to restrain them before these unutterable terrors escape into the world at large.
Damion and I, however, were only peasants, commoners seeking a means of escape from the terrors of poverty.
We know the names of the countries, we hear the names of the leaders every day in the news, we discuss the politics, the horrors and the terrors.
The 18th-century mind preferred homely dirt and the occasional clean shirt to the terrors of cold water or the deep ocean.
Has anybody suffering from night terrors ever wet their bed from fright while sleeping at the clinic?
It's impossible to read of the terrors abroad in her shabby streetscapes without total emotional involvement.
Nyctophobia is mostly present in young children, and starts out with night terrors and a healthy fear of the boogeyman.
Other common problems are night terrors, dream disturbed sleep and also light sleepers, waking every couple of hours.
Night terrors often occur in patients with psychopathology, especially in adults with post-traumatic stress syndrome.
Another great thing about living with the Barkers was the miraculous deterioration of my night terrors.
Several adolescents also developed night terrors and needed to be escorted by their parents to the outdoor toilets.
They graduate together, drift apart at University and begin to face the terrors of being a twentysomething at the same time.
Clumsy as were their galliots, they were among the first to brave the mysterious terrors of unknown seas and oceans.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors.
It all has come so suddenly that I scarce believe that either of us realizes the real terrors of our position.
But at night, after shelter staff left, the nocturnal kinkajous turned into tiny terrors, she added.
Equatorial work at low levels is trying enough in all conscience without the added terrors of scientific hooliganism in the Doldrums.
All the terrors of the French Republic, which held Austria in awe, were unable to command her diplomacy.
As he said this, Ahab advanced upon him with such overbearing terrors in his aspect, that Stubb involuntarily retreated.
Then we bounded from the ground, for our hearts were fierce with hate and with longing to avenge the terrors we had borne.
He had her in his arms, her face like a wet flower at his lips, and all their vain terrors shrivelling up like ghosts at sunrise.
So we circled about, with terrors and scruples, like fighters not daring to close.
He glanced in, and hurried on, for the sight of his uncle was nothing but terrors for him tonight.
Giles, Brittles, and the tinker, were recruiting themselves, after the fatigues and terrors of the night, with tea and sundries, in the kitchen.
Nature in one of her beneficient moods has ordained that even death has some antidote to its own terrors.
I came out of this age of ours, this ripe prime of the human race, when Fear does not paralyse and mystery has lost its terrors.
But despite the providential loneliness of the road, there were one or two terrors that could not be disposed of so summarily.
For me no terrors resided in the thought of bugaboos and wicked ogres.
It seemed unbelievable that serious mishap could have overtaken her wonderful Korak who daily passed unscathed through all the terrors of the jungle.
Thus accoutered, bog and marsh and undergrowth had no terrors for him.
But man, reckless animal, is so made that in him curiosity, the paltriest curiosity, will overcome all terrors, every disgust, and even despair itself.
And I began to run towards the anchorage, my terrors all forgotten, while close at my side the marooned man in his goatskins trotted easily and lightly.
In the turmoil of his wits, a thousand hints and hopes and threats and terrors dinning continuously in his ears, he was like one plunged in the hubbub of a crowd.
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