Ryan recalled a dreadful nightmare that the Trader had once shared with him.

Eyes closed, they twisted as though in the grip of a dreadful nightmare.

But this was like some dreadful nightmare, the product of a fevered brain.

Cold; James Foster shivered for with the coming of day this could no longer be dismissed as some dreadful nightmare.

He is having dreadful nightmares and suspects he might be turning into a werewolf.

The narrative is "imaginative, fascinating, convincing, as some dreadful nightmare," the Book Review said in 1930.

Everything would be just fine-if it weren't for the dreadful nightmares I've been having here lately.

His expression was grim as if he were the victim of some dreadful nightmare, which seemed quite likely in view of the circumstances.

I had a dreadful nightmare, and woke sweating all over.

She lamented that she had no friends or money, and that "it seems like some dreadful nightmare".