He was day-dreaming, seeing visions in the fire.

He would just think he was day-dreaming, and that the little girl with the soft eyes, the ash-colored pigtails, and the quick feet was just a piece of his day-dream.

The word "royal" might call up purple, a Northwestern University pennant, the person who gave it to you, and before you know it you are off in a long day-dream leading far from the history lesson.

"Come, Migwan, are you going to day-dream here forever?

Vanity had no place in his honest breast, and, sooth to say, it had not a large place in that of his master either, as we may well grant when we consider that this first display of it was on the occasion of his hunter's soul having at last realized its brightest day-dream.

Are you dreaming?" "No, not even day-dreaming.

One lay on his back, with one knee raised like a man day-dreaming and looking up at the sky.

He was a proud, affectionate, sensitive, and generous boy, hampered by circumstance, but conscious of great capabilities,not morbidly addicted to day-dreaming, but always working heartily for something beyond.

Eyes, where Delight in careless luxury Lay nestling and indulging blissful thoughts; With every day-dream, for whose food the world Offers magnificence and loveliness; All graceful motions, and all graceful forms.

She could not detach herself sufficiently from the sordid realities to lose herself in day-dreaming.

His scheme of philosophy is a mere day-dream, a poetical creation, like the Domdaniel cavern, the Swerga, or Padalon; and indeed it bears no inconsiderable resemblance to those gorgeous visions.

While listening and day-dreaming, I was overtaken by a man and his donkey, both old acquaintances.

It gives no background for day-dreaming.

They delight in playing at being this person and that, and in living for a while in a day-dream.

They are certainly not the views of a woman given to day-dreaming and window-gazing.

Footpaths lead out into the wheat and beside the hedge, where the wild flowers bloomflowers to be lovingly studied, food for many a day-dream.

He tried hard to forget it, saying to himself that it was a fancy, a foolish imagination, a day-dream; he tried to believe that in a few days he should have forgotten it.

But ever, amid school and household tasks, her day-dream was that, in time, she might be a "high-seat" Quaker.

Yet I should also see, that he was liable to mistake a reverie, a meditation, a day-dream, for a resuscitation of his memory by the Spirit.

"Recollect, this is just a day-dream," he began.

He knew that he loved to sit alone and look away to a far skyline and day-dream.

Her day-dreaming was to a large extent directed toward matters literary and artistic.

I sometimes believe, thinking on these things, that we have inherited from our father Adam a habit of day-dreaming; that in this exile of coarse and work-day life our heated brows are sometimes fanned with breezes from some half-remembered Araby the Blest, and there instinctively come over us such visions of beatitude that the Paradise we have lost is recalled to us, and we live once more among the dreamy and grateful splendors of Eden.

So far, in his aspiring day-dream, had the Serpent fared from his old familiar hauntsso far from his old-world wisdom!

She sat there day-dreaming, feeling secure in her loneliness, and presently saw a slight figure, daintily clad in gray and black, who catching her eye made an eager gesture, doffing his plumed hat and bowing low to her.