Dreamed

Examples

• I never dreamed a man could have such patience and perseverance. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am not sufficiently acquainted with such subjects to know whether it is at all remarkable that I almost always dreamed of that period of my life. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But I fell asleep before I had succeeded, and dreamed of the days when I lived in my godmother's house. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Even this imperfect consciousness faded away at last, and he dreamed a long, troubled dream. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• Such an elaborately developed, perplexing, exciting dream was certainly never dreamed by a girl in Eustacia's situation before. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I have always dreamed of myself as a child learning to do needlework. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• In my life have I never dreamed of such hares. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Let us then sum up in a word, I said, the character of the worst man: he is the waking reality of what we dreamed. Plato. The Republic.
• You and I have dreamed the same thing. Plato. The Republic.
• Why, if Zat Arras even dreamed that I contemplated such a thing he would have my heart cut out of me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• There was no shadowy picture of his footsteps, in the garden that I dreamed of walking in all night. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream When Mrs Flintwinch dreamed, she usually dreamed, unlike the son of her old mistress, with her eyes shut. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• He never dreamed of disputing their pretensions, but did homage to the miserable Mumbo jumbo they paraded. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Last night I dreamed about you, Miss Fairlie. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• What he had dreamed of had been so different that there was a mortal chill in his rapture. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• After that it all happened as he had dreamed. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• I am frightened out of one half of my life, and dreamed out of the other. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And long on the bright steps stood Gruff and Glum, looking after the pretty bride, with a narcotic consciousness of having dreamed a dream. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I have seen it, Herbert, and dreamed of it, ever since the fatal night of his arrival. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I dreamed it would be nameless bliss, As I loved, loved to be; And to this object did I press As blind as eagerly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Lord Kinnaird heard nothing as applied to himself, never having dreamed of such a thing as insulting or picking a quarrel with young Lambton. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I have no more dreamed of the possibility of MY being his wife, than he ever has--and words could not be stronger than that. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Nobody dreamed it would ever go off, and of course, no one imagined it was loaded. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• I think he dreamed. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I have dreamed of going down to Mrs General, with the patches on my clothes in which I can first remember myself. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Maybe you would, and probably it is something that you made up or that you dreamed. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I have thought of you very often in Spain; particularly one night, I remember, I dreamed you came out on my staff. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The man answered, that he had no business with me, and had never dreamed of entering my house. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I never close my eyes in sleep without awaking in the greatest fright and agony, having dreamed that you were taken away from me for ever. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Sometimes I thought the tomb unquiet, and dreamed strangely of disturbed earth, and of hair, still golden, and living, obtruded through coffin-chinks. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.

Editor: Rosalie