Dreaming

Examples

• You have been dreaming again! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Hardly a night passed without my dreaming of it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I roused myself from the book which I was dreaming over rather than reading, and left my chambers to meet the cool night air in the suburbs. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was miraculously conceived through his mother dreaming of a beautiful white elephant! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Little wife, thou must be dreaming! Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Dreaming, for ever dreaming, Windsor! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I should certainly say that such an one was dreaming. Plato. The Republic.
• You have a genius for dreaming. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• When I saw you before, I was dreaming that I might come back some day. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• For years I've been dreaming of the bright green fields and the hedges of England. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I thought you had been dreaming, said she. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• I fancied she was dreaming of him when I kissed her cheek after she had slept an hour and saw how tranquil and happy she looked. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I was day-dreaming. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• I was not dreaming, I said, with some warmth, for her brazen coolness provoked me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• So up he flew directly, and a terrible scene took place, for Lucy was come to them by that time, little dreaming what was going on. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.

Edited by Annabel