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1. The sudden trilling of my mobile phone startled me from my reveries and I flipped open the handset
2. Marcia’s husky voice jerked Frank from his reveries and he grunted, a self-conscious smile twitching his lips
3. Well, I got into a little trip of listening to the music in the afternoons and having these long reveries about moving to Provence and having a house there and walking through
4. experience the hottest and steamiest reveries you can imagine
5. He however came out of his reveries in time to greet his latest group of guests
6. But, even so, numerous accounts of his drunken and violent reveries remain, in which he habitually murdered people and tore down cultural treasures (such as the palace of Xerxes)
7. Her mobile ringing got her out of her reveries
8. Do you know I still have reveries about those days? I thought of writing a novel about our love but I decided against it
9. I touched the nipples of my daydreams, the legs of my reveries, the moist female nucleus of my fantasies
10. Why afraid? Is it not that they suspect that the common sense of serious Christians will explode their opinion as contrary to Scripture? The minds of such good men, honestly unable to sustain the burden of the dogma of endless torments, and knowing no other refuge, have fled to the doctrine of the salvation of all men, quoting the Poet Laureate's agreeable reveries when Holy Scripture fails them
11. As the word `brotherly' passed through his mind in one of his reveries, he smiled, and glanced up at the picture of Mozart that was before him
12. reveries are cherished, as is too frequently the case with women, when
13. Sometimes he would fall into long reveries, sigh heavily and involuntarily, then suddenly rise, and, with folded arms, begin pacing the confined space of his dungeon
14. It is not usual with us corrupted wretches of civilization to find gentlemen like yourself, possessors, as you are, of immense fortune—at least, so it is said—and I beg you to observe that I do not inquire, I merely repeat;—it is not usual, I say, for such privileged and wealthy beings to waste their time in speculations on the state of society, in philosophical reveries, intended at best to console those whom fate has disinherited from the goods of this world
15. He ran out and ran in, smoked incessantly, played snatches on his violin, sank into reveries, devoured sandwiches at irregular hours, and hardly answered the casual questions which I put to him
16. caught herself in reveries on what might have been, if she had not been married and he had been free
17. The reveries from which it was difficult for him to detach himself were ideal constructions of something else than Rosamond's virtues, and the primitive tissue was still his fair unknown
18. Yet it seems to me that, more e’en than the pleasing Prospect of the Palace, I was taken up with Reveries of the Court of that wicked King Henry VIII, floating up to London in great Pleasure Barges, whilst Minstrels sang and play’d their Lutes, and that I fancied myself a Tudor Lady (with a Ruff about my Neck and a Dress studded with Pearls) chosen to be the King’s Mistress and i’faith so well-lov’d by him that he would ne’er behead me as he did those unfortunate others
19. I’faith, the Dean was so caught up in his Fancies and Reveries about Horses, that I could scarce tell him of my Horse, Lustre, of the fine Arabians Lord Bellars had imported, of the many Foalings I myself had witness’d as a Child, of that splendid Moment, the Culmination of eleven Months of great Anticipation, when the Foal emerges, Forelegs first, then Muzzle, then Cheaks, then Ears, then Withers, then Flank, and then the Foal entire, with the Moon-blue Membranes gleaming, and the Waters of the Womb still glist’ning upon his infant Fuzz! My own fondest Childhood Memories were also of Horses
20. Certainly, these powerful reveries have their moral utility, and by these arduous paths one approaches to ideal perfection
21. All sorts of reveries reached him from space, and mingled with his thoughts
22. The moon, entering through the four panes of the window, cast its whiteness into the crimson and flaming garret; and to the poetic spirit of Marius, who was dreamy even in the moment of action, it was like a thought of heaven mingled with the misshapen reveries of earth
23. From time to time, especially at that evening hour which is the most depressing to even the dreamy, he allowed the purest, the most impersonal, the most ideal of the reveries which filled his brain, to fall upon a notebook which contained nothing else
24. Jean Valjean had plunged into one of these reveries
25. Mad with grief, no longer conscious of anything fixed or solid in his brain, incapable of accepting anything thenceforth of fate after those two months passed in the intoxication of youth and love, overwhelmed at once by all the reveries of despair, he had but one desire remaining, to make a speedy end of all
26. In the first place, he was not in the secret; then, in his reveries of an invalid, which were still feverish, possibly, he distrusted this tenderness as a strange and novel thing, which had for its object his conquest
27. She had a few tender reveries now and then, which he could sometimes take advantage of to look in her face without detection; and the result of these looks was, that though as bewitching as ever, her face was less blooming than it ought to be
28. And meet it is, that over these sea-pastures, wide-rolling watery prairies and Potters' Fields of all four continents, the waves should rise and fall, and ebb and flow unceasingly; for here, millions of mixed shades and shadows, drowned dreams, somnambulisms, reveries; all that we call lives and souls, lie dreaming, dreaming, still; tossing like slumberers in their beds; the ever-rolling waves but made so by their restlessness
29. For a space the old man walked the deck in rolling reveries
30. At last, when the ship drew near to the outskirts, as it were, of the Equatorial fishing-ground, and in the deep darkness that goes before the dawn, was sailing by a cluster of rocky islets; the watch—then headed by Flask—was startled by a cry so plaintively wild and unearthly—like half-articulated wailings of the ghosts of all Herod's murdered Innocents—that one and all, they started from their reveries, and for the space of some moments stood, or sat, or leaned all transfixedly listening, like the carved Roman slave, while that wild cry remained within hearing
31. This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth
32. Even now I cannot recollect without passion my reveries while the work was incomplete
33. Then I became lost in my own reveries; the past came up to me again, showing itself to my imagination in large powerful outlines filled with high lights and massive shadows, details that at any other time would have remained in oblivion, presented themselves in vivid force, making on me an impression impossible under any other circumstances
34. Iván Petróvich was having pleasant reveries; he was thinking of his home, his wife, and his daughter
35. The contemplation of objects, the flying image of reveries evoked by them, are the song
36. He drank no more, but was drunk all the time, shadowed by fearful dreams, instead of the joyous reveries that wine gives
37. Her curiously happy exaltation, her absentmindedness, her long, smiling reveries; the look of flushed excitement on her pretty face, the odd impression of breathlessness; the muttering of strange words in her sleep, followed by bursts of almost ribald laughter
38. When all my reveries are past,
