73 examples of revery in sentences

And, while that face renews my filial grief, Fancy shall weave a charm for my relief, Shall steep me in Elysian revery, A momentary dream that thou art she.

On a summer afternoon of uncommon mildness, old Colonel Jean Albert Henri Joseph De Charleu-Marot, being in a mood for revery, slipped the custody of his feminine rulers and sought the crown of the levee, where it was his wont to promenade.

" The girl sat for a long time after McNutt had driven away, seemingly lost in revery.

As the evening wore away he became more and more absorbed in revery, from which no sallies of mine could arouse him.

It evidently cost Rosa some effort to attend to her innumerable questions, for the incessant chattering disturbed her revery.

All unconscious of the remarks she had elicited, Rosa retired to her chamber, where she sat at the window plunged in mournful revery.

One day, when she found her in dreamy revery, she patted her silky curls, and said: "Does she feel as if she was laid by, like a fifth wheel to a coach?

But, do what he would, the thoughts spoke loudest; and after a while he leaned his head forward on the piano, lost in revery.

Mrs. Delano sat awhile in revery.

Through all her revery she never forgot her duty with the rudder, though she quite forgot her oarsman.

No unsubstantial shapes are they, The offspring of the mist and sea; No splendid vision of Cathay, Recalled in dreamful revery; Their solid bastions,towering high Though rooted in earth's primal plan, Proclaim to every passer by The cradle of the Corsican.

" Aunt Henshaw fell into a long revery; and a pair of eyes, which had been glimmering near the door for some time, suddenly disappeared, and I heard the retreating footsteps of Holly as she took her way to the kitchen.

"And what was the soldier's name, Daddy?" Recalled from his revery, the father answered: "He was known, Son, as Tommy Atkins.

One is at ease here, and yet at the bottom of the heart a vague unrest is felt; the soul is softened and loses itself in melancholy and tender revery.

"No, no," she mused, looking in revery out the window.

I gave myself up to mere revery.

The room in which I sat had nothing in it but matting as fine as silk, a rare old vase with two flowers and a leaf in formal arrangement, and an atmosphere of aloofness that lulled mind and body to restful revery.

For a long time, while Nissr roared away eastward, ever eastward into the night, he sat there, sunk in a profound revery.

She, too, had been wrapped in revery; her face was grave.

Des Esseintes fell into revery.

Once abandoned on this track, his revery, at first dispersed among all the dentists he had known, concentrated and converged on one of them who was more firmly engraved in his memory.

How often had he fallen into revery, as he read these lines:

Veronica, lost in revery, paid no attention to anything about her.

It was after nine and the boy was deep in his trackless revery.

Perhaps it had only touched some note in unison with her revery.

73 examples of  revery  in sentences