nightmare vs taking

nightmare

noun
  • Any bad, miserable, difficult or terrifying situation or experience that arouses anxiety, terror, agony or great displeasure. 

  • A very bad or frightening dream. 

  • A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis. 

verb
  • To have a nightmare. 

taking

noun
  • A state of mental distress, resulting in excited or erratic behavior (in the expression in a taking). 

  • A seizure of someone's goods or possessions. 

  • The act by which something is taken. 

  • Cash or money received (by a shop or other business, for example). 

adj
  • Alluring; attractive. 

How often have the words nightmare and taking occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )