Dreams

Examples

• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Sleep, sweetly--I gild thy dreams! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• A wealth of evidence could be adduced to support this from the studies of dreams and fantasies made by the Freudian school of psychologists. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• With dreams of all you most desire. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• 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. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• My dreams, last night, were dreams I have never had before. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It will help in the consummation of man’s loftiest dreams of world friendship and world peace. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Why, even my father thinks a deal o' dreams! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Now you will have bad dreams. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• What right had she to dream the dreams of loveliness? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• The realization of my boyish day-dreams is at hand. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• I awoke with them, often, in the night; I remember to have even read them, in dreams, inscribed upon the walls of houses. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He had a very dark, fearsome face, and a gleam in his eyes that comes back to me in my dreams. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Inspirited by this wind of promise, my day dreams become more fervent and vivid. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The heathen mythology, the Sybilline oracles, the myths of Plato, the dreams of Neo-Platonists are equally regarded by him as matter of fact. Plato. The Republic.
• It was not another of the dreams in which he had often come back; he was really here. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• These in his democratic days, when he was still subject to the laws and to his father, were only let loose in the dreams of sleep. Plato. The Republic.
• If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is, as the French say, _autant de gagné_, so much added to the pleasure of life. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Oh, he dreams footnotes, and they run away with all his brains. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Dreams I am unused to have troubled me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Were our proud dreams thus to fade? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The nights here are long sometimes--very long; but they are nothing to the restless nights, and dreadful dreams I had at that time. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• As to sleep, I had dreams of poverty in all sorts of shapes, but I seemed to dream without the previous ceremony of going to sleep. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She's bad enough as it is, with her dreams and her methodee fancies, and her visions of cities with goulden gates and precious stones. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• His dreams of the past night, mingled with Cassy's prudential suggestions, considerably affected his mind. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• What shall I see in my dreams to-night? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The name I have heard Alfred mention, tossing in his dreams, IS Riah; is it not? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Already she mocked at herself for her dreaMs. They could be fulfilled easily enough. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Maybe it was like those dreams. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Such a box had Affery Flintwinch seen, in the first of her dreams, going out of the old house in the dead of the night under Double's arm. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

Typed by Geraldine