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Sentences starting with dreams

Dreams I am unused to have troubled me. [14]
Dreams and visions have little to do with measured time, and ten minutes, possibly fifteen or twenty, were all that had passed since the beginning of those nightmare terrors which were evidently suggested by the suffocating air he was breathing. [6]
Dreams were like broken mosaics,--the separated stones might here and there make parts of pictures. [6]
Dreams that were as real as reality--delirium, of course, but _so_ real! [5]
Dreams are phantoms, and even if sent by the gods, the interpreters thereof are human and erring. [10]

Sentences ending with dreams

After which, he would go forth in his rags and beg a few farthings, eat his poor crust, take his customary cuffs and abuse, and then stretch himself upon his handful of foul straw, and resume his empty grandeurs in his dreams. [5]
He lay and wondered for a long time, but fell asleep again; and the steely iteration went on in his dreams. [11]
Her fingers, however, which used to be so skilful, either broke the threads they tried to spin, or lay for hours idle in her lap, while she was lost in dreams. [10]
Presently dreams came-kind, vague, distant dreams. [11]
If you get too tired you'll have bad dreams. [11]
I leave you to your dreams. [11]
Their visit came to interrupt Selene's blissful dreams. [10]
It sounded as though she was speaking from the happiest of dreams. [10]
Within an hour they saw the wild duck-again passing the crest of Guidon, and they watched it sailing down to the Post, Pierre idly fondling the gun, Macavoy half roused from his dreams. [11]
He saw in them infinitely more than he saw in his dreams. [13]

Short sentences using dreams

Peace to his starlit dreams! [6]
His dreams were propitious. [5]
For Laura had her dreams. [5]
There are no dreams here. [12]
I've had dreams, Doctor. [6]
They were now discussing dreams. [2]
His dreams were coming true. [11]
He only writes and dreams. [11]
Dream other dreams, and better! [5]
And such dreams! [5]

Sentences containing dreams two or more times

Of such delicate texture was the fabric of Janet's dreams that not only sordid reality, but contact with other dreams of a different nature, such as her sister's, often sufficed to dissolve them. [9]
But it is like all the dreams of all busy men--fated to remain dreams. [5]
I recall, too, innocent dreams of a future unidentified, dreams from which I emerged vibrating with an energy that was lost for lack of a definite objective: yet it was constantly being renewed. [9]
All his visions had been true visions, his dreams true dreams. [11]
They brought her dreams, sleeping or waking; dreams a thousand times more delightful than her real, desolate existence. [10]
It's dreams that do it, Barry; it's dreams that drive us on, that make us see beyond the present and the stupefying, deadening grind of the day. [11]
When he spoke at last, she cast down her eyes, for he said: "In my dreams, Sappho, you have always been the most lovely creature that Auramazda ever created, but now I see you again, you are more lovely even than my dreams. [10]

More example sentences with the word dreams in them

Instantly the fickle youth's dreams forsook the magic eye-water and flew back to the Tennessee Land. [5]
Nay, let the young, who have no wrongs to satisfy, let the young who have dreams and visions and hopes, rule; not the old lion of the hills, who loves too well himself and his rugged ease of body and soul. [11]
Strange, indeed, that you should not have suspected that your universe and its contents were only dreams, visions, fiction! [5]
It was only yesterday that he had tried to moderate Olympius' sanguine dreams, and had said to him: "It is not by enthusiasm but by tactics that we defeat a foe! [10]
She turned quickly, with the pageant of her dreams still wavering in her face; smiled at him distantly, looked towards the window again in a troubled way, then stepped softly and swiftly to the door, and passed out. [11]
Crozier was speaking with the look of the man who hypnotises himself, who "sees things," who dreams as only the gambler and the plunger on the turf do dream, not even excepting the latter-day Irish poets. [11]
Indeed, the Island Wilderness is the very home of romance and dreams and mystery. [5]
This was the wife of his dreams, the proud woman, with whom the Eletto desired to share power and grandeur. [10]
Only a little while before he had had one of those vivid dreams of Virginia which left their impression, but not their substance, to haunt him. [9]
Dreams, to him, were matters for suspicion and distrust. [9]
In busy life we have no real or lasting dreams, no ideals. [11]
It's little time we get for dreaming, these sodden days, but it's only dreams that do the world's work and our own work in the end. [11]
But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shewn by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? [1]
In her heart was working the consciousness that she had been singled out as worthy to share the confidence of a man in his most secret ambitions and aspirations, in the dreams of youth which seemed to her so noble. [4]
Mr Swiveller, who was perfectly ravenous, and had had, all night, amazingly distinct and consistent dreams of mutton chops, double stout, and similar delicacies, felt even the weak tea and dry toast such irresistible temptations, that he consented to eat and drink on one condition. [12]
At first it was only as though a wind stirred the air of dreams, then it was like the sounds that gather behind the coming rage of a storm, and again it was as though a night- prowler plucked at the sleeve of a home-goer. [11]
But its glory was departed, its day was done, it was a place of dreams and memories: the Queen came here no more. [11]
His wife, Electra, was a capable helpmeet, although--like himself --a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in romance. [5]
I had angry visions, I dreamed absurd dreams, but I did not think of disobeying. [11]
He had retired very late to rest, and the chamberlain therefore put off waking him, especially as he had been troubled by evil dreams, in spite of his happy frame of mind when he sought his couch. [10]
His dreams of vengeance were abruptly broken by a messenger, covered with dust from head to foot; he brought good news: Orion was taken and safely bestowed in the Kadi's house. [10]
Having ended the usual formalities, he told how favorable his dreams were, and that he had called them together to know if they would accompany him in a war excursion. [5]
And those dreams used to linger with me half the day as I went about my work. [9]
But faintness was upon me, and dreams came. [11]
Strange suggestions and unsafe speculations began to mingle with his dreams and reveries. [6]
No one, I trust, wishes to cloud the dreams of youth, or to dispel by excess of light what are called the illusions of hope. [4]
The sight nearly took his breath away!--He stood gazing at the fair young face like one transfixed; then presently ejaculated-- "Lo, the Lord of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows on his throne! [5]
And when I told my dreams, Shaken and humble,--"Dear, there was no cause," Your words; proud, sorrowful, as it beseems Such as thou art. [11]
When Philip went to sleep at night--he was in the front chamber reserved for guests--the loud murmur of the Deerfield was in his ears, like a current bearing him away into sweet sleep and dreams in a land of pleasant adventures. [4]
You are dear to me, like the beautiful by-gone days of my youth, like pleasant dreams, like a noble song, in which we take delight, and which refreshes our souls, whenever we hear or remember it--but more you are not, more you can never be. [10]
Here was one to lift a youngster into the realm of emulation, like a character in a play, to arouse dreams of Washington and its senators and great men. [9]
Perhaps there came to him then the dreams of his youth, before a thing happened which made him at last a servant of the Church after he had been a soldier of the king. [11]
The latter began to feel that it was in bad taste to speak of his enthusiasms, dreams, and hopes of happiness or goodness, in Prince Andrew's presence. [2]
It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? [5]
These dreams grew, till they were broken by a hand placed on my shoulder, and I saw that one of the passengers, Clovelly, an English novelist, had dropped out from the promenade to talk with me. [11]
Sometimes we dream things, and these dreams are true. [11]
What demons are these that make us do and feel things in our dreams which when we are waking we should drive far, far from our thoughts? [10]
Toward morning all these dreams melted and merged into the chaos and darkness of unconciousness and oblivion which in the opinion of Napoleon's doctor, Larrey, was much more likely to end in death than in convalescence. [2]
And now and then, rippling among his visions and his dreams, did he hear familiar laughter and half-forgotten voices, and did he catch fitful glimpses of the friendly faces of a bygone time? [5]
Usually she distinguished them in dreams, but they often came to her also in solitary hours, when she was deeply absorbed by thoughts of the past or the future. [10]
Shall it give thee the power of reading hearts, or shall it beget beautiful dreams? [10]
Then he brought the world-renowned Turkish coffee that poets have sung so rapturously for many generations, and I seized upon it as the last hope that was left of my old dreams of Eastern luxury. [5]
And that other, the world of my dreams, simply did not exist. [9]
The fluctuations of the Washington weather had influenced his dreams, perhaps, for during the recent tempest of applause he had hoisted his gingham umbrella, and calmly gone on with his slumbers. [5]
We passed through the strangest, funniest, undreampt-of old towns, wedded to the customs and steeped in the dreams of the elder ages, and perfectly unaware that the world turns round! [5]
Even in sleep the song makes itself heard, and a happy choir from the land of dreams lift up their voices about his bed. [10]
Spaciousness, remote altitudes, the sense of mystery which haunts apparently inaccessible mountain domes and summits reposing in the sky--these are the things which exalt the spirit and move it to see visions and dream dreams. [5]
Far off, above, the sapphire gleams, Far off, below, the sapphire flows, And this, my place of morning dreams, The bank where my vain visions rose! [11]
My dreams of the past are here begun in very truth and fact. [11]
They have passed the outer wall, and stand in the open air--in the street he has so often pictured to himself when hemmed in by the gloomy stones, and which has been in all his dreams. [12]
My dreams for the most part fade away so soon after their occurrence that I cannot recall them at all. [6]
Was this, then, the meaning of her restlessness, of her charitable activities, of her unconfessed dreams of some career? [4]
The spectre-knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows is become a spectre-earl--a dizzy flight for a callow wing! [5]
Take me to the king my father, and he will make thee rich beyond thy wildest dreams. [5]
We kept up the festivities many hours; then, at last, the guests departed and the rest of us distributed ourselves along the walls on sleeping-benches, and soon all were steeped in dreams but me. [5]
The return of the drunken chair-maker made a deep impression on him--almost as deep as the waking dreams he had had of his uncle calling him. [11]
There were dreams that tossed and mingled in one whirlpool vision; and then at last came a dream which was so cruel and clear that it froze his senses. [11]
I think, Katuti, that the figures in our dreams are this day taking forms of flesh and blood! [10]
The feeling was that of flying, which I have often had in dreams, as have many other persons. [6]
It was he that brought me the invitation from his master to go to Baroda and lecture to that prince--and now he was misbehaving in my dreams. [5]
I have dreams that are like that. [5]
No man may tell his dreams fasting; but as soon as I had eaten my first mouthful she would bid me tell her all, to the veriest trifle, and would solemnly seek the interpretation of every vision. [10]
I have no sympathy with those who, living out their dreams, turn regretfully to another course or another aim, and wonder-wonder, if a mistake hasn't been made. [11]
It was the swan's first breasting the water,--bred on the desert sand, with vague dreams of lake and river, and strange longings as the mirage came and dissolved, and at length afloat upon the sparkling wave. [6]
It was not surprising that she, with the spirit of dreams and romance deep in her, should be sympathetic, even carried away for the moment. [11]
Her dreams were suddenly disturbed by a loud noise, and she clapped her hands directly to warn the lovers and call Sappho, as she perceived by the stars that the dawn was not far off. [10]
We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. [5]
He stood fixed, struck dumb, staring back into them with dilating pupils and sudden numbness of fear that cannot move, as in the terror of dreams. [6]
She gasped and staggered up out of her seat muttering and mumbling incoherently, and gazed vacantly upon the people and the scene about her like one who is dazed, or thinks he dreams, and does not know where he is. [5]
The hurry of spirits consequent upon the events of yesterday, and the unexpected intelligence he had heard at night, had troubled his sleep through the long dark hours, and summoned such uneasy dreams about his pillow that it was rest to rise. [12]
All her old sorrows had come back upon her, augmented by new fears and doubts; by day they were ever present to her mind; by night they hovered round her pillow, and haunted her in dreams. [12]
Later on the sophisticated mind, left to its own guidance in the night, wanders amid the complexities of life, calling up in confusion scenes long forgotten or repented of, images only registered by a sub-conscious process, dreams to perplex, irritate, and excite. [4]
These hints come sometimes in dreams, sometimes in sudden startling flashes,--second wakings, as it were,--a waking out of the waking state, which last is very apt to be a half-sleep. [6]
She brought him some milk, and he drank of it gratefully and lay down again, to forget in pleasant dreams his lost battle and his humbled pride. [5]
That faintness which so often comes over people in decline, had seized her and was sweetening her last hours with pleasant dreams. [10]
Now he was so no longer, and pleasant dreams blended with his ambitious plans, like golden threads in dark cloth. [10]
Presently, dreams and sleep and the sullen hush of the night were startled by a ringing report, and cloven by such a long, wild, agonizing shriek! [5]
Nebenchari had been sitting three days and nights with scarcely any intermission by this sick-bed, and such dreams were the natural consequence. [10]
He very kindly showed me the neighbourhood, as it can be seen from a carriage, and I discerned that the Lake country is a glorious region, of which I had only seen the similitude in dreams, waking or sleeping. [14]
When evening came she went to rest early, but troubled dreams disturbed her sleep. [10]
In her dreams she saw the hanging lamp, the moving panel, the little cupboard, the fatal paper. [11]
In her dreams she had felt herself lifted and borne off, breathless in his arms, to Elysium. [9]
In any case she had dreams. [11]
By and by she got quiet, rose and went to her bookcase, took down a volume of Coleridge, and read a short time, and so to bed, to sleep and wake from time to time with a sudden start out of uneasy dreams. [6]
What disturbs me," she continued, "is to find you and the poets founding your new freedom on new justifications, discarding the old law only to make a new one,--as though we could ever get away from necessities, escape from disagreeable things, except in dreams. [9]
Three times has she appeared to me in my dreams, and said, 'Go to the Herr Givenaught, go to the Herr Heartless, ask them to come and bid. [5]
For I had seen visions, I had dreamed dreams, beheld a delectable country of my very own. [9]
For this we seem to have lived; it was foreshadowed in dreams that we leaped out of in the cold sweat of terror; in the "dissolving views" of dark day-visions; all omens pointed to it; all paths led to it. [6]
And so, having satisfied ourselves, we depart to-morrow, and leave the venerable Queen of the Republics to summon her vanished ships, and marshal her shadowy armies, and know again in dreams the pride of her old renown. [5]
And there I sat in my solitude and dreamed such wondrous dreams! [6]
Number Five herself said she supposed she ought to be ashamed of its absurdities, but she did not know that it was much sillier than dreams often are, and she thought it might amuse the company. [6]
It interrupted the Sabbath stillness, and marred the dreams the luxurious rest and indolence brought. [5]
The finely-cut nostrils rose and fell with her regular breathing, and she lay there, a picture of innocence, of peace, smiling in dreams, and of the slumber that the gods bestow on early youth, when care has not yet come. [10]
Her own little room too, where she had so often knelt down and prayed at night--prayed for the time which she hoped was dawning now--the little room where she had slept so peacefully, and dreamed such pleasant dreams! [12]
It took the romance all out of the campaign, and turned our dreams of glory into a repulsive nightmare. [5]
I've heard my riders say he's as keen as a wolf.... "As to your reading my thoughts--well, your suggestion makes an actual thought of what was only one of my dreams. [13]
Jethro Bass was rich beyond the dreams of avarice--for Coniston. [9]
A night of restless slumber, filled with dreams of feasting--wakings distressed with the gnawings of hunger. [5]
I am not reckless enough to try to pronounce it when I am awake, but I make a stagger at it in my dreams, and get up with the lockjaw in the morning. [5]
Swedenborg, Emanuel: poetic rank, 202, 320; dreams, 306; Rosetta-Stone, 322; times mentioned, 382. [6]

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