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- This gentleman has written a volume of Essays, in which, among much that is dreamy and fanciful (if he will pardon me for saying so), there is much more that is true and manly, honest and bold. [6]
- In February, she writes as follows to Mr. Smith:-- "Something you say about going to London; but the words are dreamy, and fortunately I am not obliged to hear or answer them. [14]
- From her hand, which she lays upon his head, a mysterious influence steals through him; and he sinks into a dreamy tranquility. [5]
- You carry still what we call (Poets are dreamy we know) A heart, well, 'tis yours after all, And time hath its wonders, I trow. [11]
- At first it was thought he was joking, but when at last, in his calm and dreamy look, they saw he meant what he said, they rose and carried him round the room on a chair, making impromptu songs as they travelled. [11]
- A dreamy smile was on her face, and she lay unresisting, very still. [9]
- The dreamy haze was beginning to soften the landscape, and the mast delicious days of the year were lending their attraction to the scenery of The Mountain. [6]
- He did not unbend his dreamy gaze. [8]
- When France's great trouble came to her, and the nobles fled, or went to fight for the King in the Vendee, the old Duke, with a dreamy indifference to the opinion of Europe, had proclaimed alliance with the new Government. [11]
- It was a tranquil and dreamy picture, beautiful to the eye and restful to the spirit. [5]
- It was touching to read in the same confessions: "I was in a dreamy mood, and they said I must be longing for something--Paul, no doubt. [10]
- Then they seemed to lose their cold glitter, and soften into a strange, dreamy tenderness. [6]
- To one of them, I know, the colored landscape, the dreamy atmosphere, the unique glory that comes in October days, were only ecstatic suggestions of the life that opened before her. [4]
- To lie in the warm sand, which accommodates itself to any position of the body, and listen to the dash of the waves, is a dreamy and delightful way of spending a summer day. [4]
- Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above it, was green with vegetation and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting. [5]
- All features of the noble building are distinct now, but soft and dreamy, for the sun is lightly veiled with clouds. [5]
- Once we saw the dim bulk of a couple of them, far away, spectral and dreamy things; members of the Horne-Alofa and Fortuna. [5]
- But at dawn the bugles and the drums burst through the dreamy hush of the morning, and it was turn out all! [5]
- He fancied, too, that he had observed that the quiet, dreamy lad kept out of his way. [10]
- Silken coverlets were spread over their weary, beautiful limbs, and a troop of eunuchs took good care that the dreamy repose of the entire body should not be disturbed by quarrelsome or petulant individuals. [10]
- His face was smooth-shaven, thin, intellectual, or rather spiritual; the nose long, the mouth straight, the eyes deep gray, sometimes dreamy and puzzling, again glowing with an inner fervor. [4]
- There was nothing significant in the fact that Louise, dreamy and distraught, stood at her bedroom bureau that night, scribbling "Washington" here and there over a sheet of paper. [5]
- By and by she turned; her countenance had cleared; the dreamy look was gone out of her face, all indecision had vanished; the poise of her head and the firm set of her lips told that her resolution was formed. [5]
- The evening we sailed away from Gibraltar, that hard-featured rock was swimming in a creamy mist so rich, so soft, so enchantingly vague and dreamy, that even the Oracle, that serene, that inspired, that overpowering humbug, scorned the dinner gong and tarried to worship! [5]
- But the schooners sail idly, and the fishing-boats that have put out from the marina float in the most dreamy manner. [4]
- On Konovnitsyn's handsome, resolute face with cheeks flushed by fever, there still remained for an instant a faraway dreamy expression remote from present affairs, but then he suddenly started and his face assumed its habitual calm and firm appearance. [2]
- The peaceful face reflected somewhat of peace and healing into his own spirit, and his thoughts wandered away to bygone times and dreamy memories. [5]
- Richter smoked his pipe 'mid dreamy silence, the tear still wet upon his face. [9]
- The Cathedral six or seven miles behind us; vast, dreamy, bluish, snow-clad mountains twenty miles in front of us,--these were the accented points in the scenery. [5]
- It was Sunday; one is not used to such dreamy Sundays on the continent. [5]
- He is an old, retired, and very rich silk manufacturer from Lyons, they say, and I guess he is alone in the world, for he always looks sad and dreamy, and doesn't talk with anybody. [5]
- Then he turns off slow and dreamy towards the stairs, saying: "Well, for the life of me I can't remember when I done it. [5]
- She thought often of Venters, but in a dreamy, abstract way. [13]
- It has none of that vagueness, that dreamy spirituality about it, which many of the first critics of Arkansas have objected to in the Murillo school of Art. [5]
- The atmosphere was not too clear on the horizon for dreamy effects; all the headlands were softened and tinged with opalescent colors. [4]
- There is a noble and beautiful view of ocean and islands and castellated peaks from the governor's high-placed house, and its immediate surroundings lie drowsing in that dreamy repose and serenity which are the charm of life in the Pacific Islands. [5]
- But Phelps's voice is not seldom plaintive, as if touched by the dreamy sadness of the woods themselves. [4]
- She did not include the business of bread-winning in these; that was an affair that might safely be left to his absent-minded, dreamy inefficiency, and she did not interfere with him there. [8]
- As she lay in her hammock in those dreamy days a new world opened to her. [4]
- A railway here in Asia--in the dreamy realm of the Orient--in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights--is a strange thing to think of. [5]
- Mr. Tooting put his tongue in his cheek; and, seeing a dreamy expression on his friend's face, accidentally helped himself to a cigar out of the wrong box. [9]
- I glanced at her and saw that her knitting-needles were idle in her hands, and that her face had a dreamy and absent look in it. [5]
- The first two have something in common, the almost mystic union of sky and sea and shore, a soft atmospheric suffusion that works an enchantment, and puts one into a dreamy mood. [4]
- He was still handsome, but something of the spring had gone from his walk, the quick light of his eyes had given place to a dark, dreamy expression, his skin became a little dulled, and his talk slower, though not less musical or pleasant. [11]
- Many an hour had Irene and Stanhope passed in dreamy contemplation of it. [4]
- Poor Joan was grown dreamy and absent; possibly she was tired. [5]
- He had to grow into the habit of passing from one dreamy pleasure to another, like a bee going from flower to flower in the valley, and he found this wandering habit likely to extend to his labors. [13]
- She was undoubtedly good-looking; her hair, of a more golden red than her brother's, was really wonderful; her neck was slender; and she had a strange, dreamy face that fascinated Cynthia, who had never seen anything like it. [9]
- The ocean is gold, the city is gold, the meadow, the mountain, the sky--every thing is golden-rich, and mellow, and dreamy as a vision of Paradise. [5]
- His dreamy eyes glittered like a drunkard's when he spoke of Barine. [10]
- Was this her gentle, dreamy daughter? [10]
- Her distress at first we thought could only be for you, but when she sank into that dreamy state, Ibykus, who was still at our court, said she must have been seized by some strong passion. [10]
- When the newspaper fell to her lap a dreamy expression clouded Lise's eyes. [9]
- Her large blue eyes had an innocent, dreamy, half-melancholy expression, which I was not the only person who found unspeakably charming. [10]
- The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of ante-natal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden. [6]
- I was dazed, dreamy, wretched, seedy, unrefreshed. [5]
- I wanted the dreamy stillness of a large, tranquil sheet of water that had nothing in particular to do, and would leave me to myself and my thoughts. [6]
- Jane Withersteen gazed down the wide purple slope with dreamy and troubled eyes. [13]
- It might be disappointment, melancholy, or only the dreamy sadness of a young person who sees the future he is to climb, not as a smooth ascent, but as overhanging him like a cliff, ready to crush him, with all his hopes and prospects. [6]
- How shall I describe the conflicts of those dreamy, bewildering, dreadful years? [6]
- It cut him deep, but her eyes only had a distant, dreamy look which conveyed nothing of the sting in her words. [11]
- But when the day is done, even the most unimpressible must yield to the dreamy influences of this tranquil starlight. [5]
- No shrewdly-worded history could have brought the myths and shadows of that old dreamy age before us clothed with human flesh and warmed with human sympathies so vividly as did this poor little unsentient vessel of pottery. [5]
- She was not conscious that, in her dreamy abstraction, she was leaning towards him. [11]
- I can almost conceive of a dozing and dreamy centenarian saying to one he loves, "Go, darling, go! [6]
- Cable told Mrs. Clemens when he returned here, that he seemed to have been entertaining himself with horses, and had a dreamy idea that he must have gone to Boston in a cattle-car. [5]
- Suddenly her manner changed, and she looked at her son with dreamy intensity. [11]
- A strange, dreamy, calm peace pervaded her soul. [13]
- Who would have believed that the silent, dreamy lad had so much presence of mind, and such cunning powers of invention? [10]
- They had probably been lying a full hour in this dreamy silence, when the sound of a gong produced another transformation. [10]
- It was a beautiful picture--very soft and dreamy and beautiful. [5]
- Washington shuddered slightly at the suggestion, then his face took on a dreamy look and he dropped into a trance of thought. [5]
- I sat down and fell into a dreamy contemplation of that great footprint in the ashes. [5]
- He became silent, and dreamy, as it were. [6]
- The wife had an aesthetic dress, and defined her pretty head by wearing her back-hair pulled up very tight under her bonnet; the husband had dreamy eyes set wide apart under a pure forehead. [8]
- Light, sure-footed as a mountain goat, Bess pattered down at Venters's heels; and they went on, calling the dogs, eyes dreamy and wide, listening to the wind and the bees and the crickets and the birds. [13]
- They stood there a full minute before he opened his mouth: then he did not rise, but slowly took his pipe from his mouth, and said in a dreamy way, pointing towards the brook,-- "Do you see that tree? [4]
- It is like a dreamy strain of moving music, with no sharp notes in it. [5]
- Her eyes had a dreamy light, for the incident which she had just related rose before her mind with perfect clearness. [10]
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