Reveries

Examples

• The old traditions of the place steal upon his memory and haunt his reveries, and then his fancy clothes all sights and sounds with the supernatural. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I know not whether I have expressed myself so clearly as not to get out of your sight in these reveries. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• I was alone; none were near me to dissipate the gloom, and relieve me from the sickening oppression of the most terrible reveries. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Nothing is more evident, than that those ideas, to which we assent, are more strong, firm and vivid, than the loose reveries of a castle-builder. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• As the word 'brotherly' passed through his mind in one of his reveries, he smiled, and glanced up at the picture of Mozart that was before him. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The wheeled chair had its associated remembrances and reveries, one may suppose, as every place that is made the station of a human being has. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Even now I cannot recollect, without passion, my reveries while the work was incomplete. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• My reveries were broken in upon by a low exclamation from the boy. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.

Edited by Harold