examines
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First produced in the mid-1980s, John Patrick Shanley’s “The Dreamer Examines His Pillow,” now at the Lounge 2 Theatre, holds interest as an early work by a playwright still casting about for his artistic moorings.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 1, 2017
In its current revival by the Attic Theater Company, “The Dreamer Examines His Pillow,”an early John Patrick Shanley work, is an intermissionless 90 minutes, but it’s really a play in three parts.
From New York Times • Aug. 3, 2015
Examines all men's carriage but his own, and is so kind-natured to himself, he finds fault with all men's but his own.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
The captain walks about, and searches Through all the rooms, and courts, and arches; Examines all the servants round, In vain—no doctor's to be found.
From The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1 by Browning, William Ernst
Index: D Examines both shores of Juan de Fuca Strait, 1790, 26.
From The Makers of Canada: Index and Dictionary of Canadian History by Various
