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nightmare-laden1865
nightmare-ridden1875
1875 Cornhill Mag.31 55 The vast unsettled populations of medieval Europe, haunted with the recurrent instinct of migration, and nightmare-ridden by imperious religious yearnings.
1961 Times 10 Nov. 18/7 Schoenberg's nightmare-ridden territory.