United States feminist (1860-1935)

Usage examples of gilman.

There was much in the Essex County records about Keziah Mason's trial, and what she had admitted under pressure to the Court of Oyer and Terminer had fascinated Gilman beyond all reason.

Yet nothing whatever happened to Gilman till about the time of the fever.

When Gilman climbed up a ladder to the cob-webbed level loft above the rest of the attic he found vestiges of a bygone aperture tightly and heavily covered with ancient planking and secured by the stout wooden pegs common in Colonial carpentry.

One could develop all sorts of aural delusions in this morbid old house -- for did not Gilman himself, even in daylight, now feel certain that noises other than rat-scratching came from the black voids beyond the slanting wall and above the slanting ceiling?

Elwood had been studying in the small hours and had come up for help on a differential equation, only to find Gilman absent.

In the lighter preliminary phase the evil old woman was now of fiendish distinctness, and Gilman knew she was the one who had frightened him in the slums.

Spurred by an impulse he did not originate, Gilman dragged himself forward along a course determined by the angle of the old woman's arms and the direction of the small monstrosity's paw, and before he had shuffled three steps he was back in the twilight abysses.

Again mustering his resolution, Gilman turned and dragged himself back to the sinister old house.

The whining prayers of the superstitious loom-fixer were still sounding through the mouldy halls, but Gilman did not mind them now.

Small objects of unknown shape and nature were ranged on the tops of the cases, and in the flaming violet light Gilman thought he saw a counterpart of the spiky image which had puzzled him so horribly.

There was time for a little conversation before leaving for breakfast and college, so Gilman hurriedly poured forth an account of his recent dreams and fears.

He had not seen Gilman on any sleep-walking expedition, and had no idea what the curious image could be.

He had, though, heard the French~Canadian who lodged just under Gilman talking to Mazurewicz one evening.

That Gilman talked in his sleep was plain, and it was obviously from Desrochers' keyhole listenings that the delusive notion of the violet dream-light had got abroad.

As for a plan of action -- Gilman had better move down to Elwood's room and avoid sleeping alone.