Example Sentences

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Revery does not prevent a cab from passing by, nor the dreamer from taking note of that cab.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

Opus 33 is a438 captivating "Spring Idyl" for the piano, for which she has also written a "Revery," of which the exquisiteness of sleep is the theme.

From Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions by Hughes, Rupert

Revery, which is utterly spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our spirit.

From Les Misérables by Hapgood, Isabel Florence

In his "Evening Revery" occur these lines:—  "The mother bird hath broken for her       brood    Their prison shells, or shoved them       from the nest,    Plumed for their earliest flight."

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John

Revery is the equivalent of weak desires; dreamers are the abulics of the creative imagination.

From Essay on the Creative Imagination by Baron, Albert Heyem Nachmen