But no more of your reveries;" and so saying Media gradually sunk into a reverie himself.
Halliday's reverie had been so suddenly broken into that for a moment, the young fellow's identity wavered elusively before his mind and then it materialized, and his consciousness took hold of it.
Mr. Hamilton's reverie was broken in upon by a tap at the door, and his secretary entered.
With no longer a companion to distract her, Tess fell more deeply into reverie than ever, her back leaning against the hives.
The incessant quivering, in which every fibre of her frame participated, had thrown her into a stupefied reverie in which her arms worked on independently of her consciousness.
Tess stood in reverie a long time before she thought of asking 'Liza-Lu to come in and sit down.
With the setting of the moon the pale light lessened, and Tess became invisible as she fell intoreverie upon the leaves where he had left her.
External Nature is credited with no inner spirit, reaching forth from wood or wave or cloud to touch the soul of man in reverie or trance, or breaking on his charmed senses in the form of gnome or water-sprite or fairy.
When reverie begins in a picture, one’s vision involuntarily makes a circuit of the items presented, starting at the most interesting and widening in its review toward the circumference, as ring follows ring when a stone is thrown into water.
Here the pleasure of reverie through an endless chain must be exchanged for the stimulation of a shock, for force by concentration, for ruggedness at the expense of elegance.
Not without reason have the so-styled magicians, in all lands and times, insisted on chastity and abstemious reverie as the communicants of inspiration.
But he was now becoming uneasy, scruples were tingeing his reverie with anxiety.
Then Pierre's reverie again diverged, and he thought of that trial in which Guillaume had been mentioned, like one suspected of having compromising friendships amongst the most violent revolutionaries.
And then his reverie strayed: he pictured himself married, and the thought filled him with such delight that he asked why such a dream should be unrealisable?
Her reverie alone was that little travelling bird, with rapid flight and noiseless wings, which continually went on pilgrimage to the Grotto.
And once more all the pilgrims made the sign of the cross, and once more Pierre's reverie strayed, a fresh stream of reflections bringing his anguish back to him.
The reverie into which he wandered was interrupted, however, by the gazelle asking for more.
Such were the words which aroused George Foster from a reverie one morning as he stood at the window of a villa on the coast of Kent, fastening his necktie and contemplating the sea.
From the reverie in which he was sunk he was suddenly roused by a voice, too harsh to be called female, yet too shrill for a man: 'What's kept you on the road sae lang?
Your reverie is broken by the news that you are near this point.
Our reverie was broken by the plaintive cries of the sea birds circling around us.
Now and then Rupert came out of his reverie and smiled.
I had scarcely concluded this ideal sentence when my reverie became deeper, the ruins surrounding me appeared to vanish from my sight, the light of the moon became more intense, and the orb itself seemed to expand in a flood of splendour.
I will not allow your Genius the slightest approach to inspiration, and I can admit no verisimility in a reverie which is fixed on a foundation you now allow to be so weak.
I suppose the more intense power of reverie is a symptom of the poetical temperament; and perhaps, if I possessed more enthusiasm, I should always have possessed more of the religious instinct.
Lord Lossie was roused from his reverie by a tap at the door, which he knew for Malcolm's, and answered with admission.
And now she sat there, deep in thereverie of the years.
Once more: he will point out to him the essential difference between reverie and thought; between dreaming and imagining.
For illustration allow me to read that well-known little ballad, "The Reverie of Poor Susan," and you will see how entirely it bears out what he lays down as his theory.
His eye wandered from Maria to the dancers, and a kind of reverie stole over him.
Uncle Felix, breaking out of his queer reverie with an effort, raised his voice and looked as if the end of the world had come.
He rose, shook himself free of the curious reveriewith a mighty yawn, and looked at the gold watch from his waistcoat pocket.
My reverie was interrupted by the heavy hand of the English skipper dropping abruptly upon my arm.
The Emperor has not a very firm seat, and he very often loses himself in a reverie when be is riding, so it might not be very safe if the horse were not well trained.
The verger touched my arm, my reverie of those stirring times was broken, he had other things to show and noon was fast approaching.
Suddenly a dull rumbling down some side street disturbed my reverie of the Santiago of days gone by.
The colonel waved away an abstracted crow that was hovering in deep reverieover my charger's brow, and says he: "I have enlisted all the people of Accomac.
Life and love and mystery wrapped her round, the great reverie of the race, the ecstasy of devotees that sent to death and crusade in the Middle Ages, the lovelight of life brooding warm and radiant.
Then, she slipped into the coat with a queer little laugh that would have played havoc with Wayland's resolutions, and running her hands up the long dangling sleeve ends, lay back to a reverie that could hardly be called thought.
The love-song of the catbird and the autumn reverie of the song-sparrow are perhaps the best instances.
There is a time, however, when the catbird rises above any suspicion of self-consciousness and is transported, and the listener with him, in a reverie of exceeding beauty.
On rare occasions I have heard the veery indulge in a reverie never to be forgotten.
All day the black-headed grosbeak sings in the aspens, dropping from one reverie into another.
He thus lay plunged in meditation until his reverie was broken by the door flying open.
Presently she was awakened from her reverie by the sound of footsteps.
Stanief smoked or played with his coffee-cup, his heavy double fringe of lashes brushing his cheek; Allard leaned back in his chair, less in reverie than in utter exhaustion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "reverie" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
