What is "dreamy"

Usage examples of "dreamy".

The flower-beds were edged with box, which diffused around it that dreamy balsamic odor, full of antenatal reminiscences of a lost Paradise, dimly fragrant as might be the bdellium of ancient Havilah, the land compassed by the river Pison that went out of Eden.

But their opiates affect a race addicted to physical repose, to sensuous enjoyment rather than to sensual excitement, and to lucid intellectual contemplation, with a sense of serene delight as supremely delicious to their temperament as the dreamy illusions of haschisch to the Turk, the fierce frenzy of bhang to the Malay, or the wild excitement of brandy or Geneva to the races of Northern Europe.

I had learned the basics, but knitting for me was still a pitched battle with knotted thread and slippery needles, not the soothing, dreamy exercise that Jamie and Ian made of it, needles clicketing away in their big hands by the fire, comforting as the sound of crickets on the hearth.

Go ye and joy in the sunshine, rest in the coolth of the grove, Drift on the dreamy river, every man with his love.

In spite of their placid, dazed, beatific smiles and grimaces, they were a kind of curious sadness, in their weird, bright patterns of love-paint on the scrawn of flesh, in their protest bangles and their disaffiliated bells, crushing the flower blossoms in a dreamy imitation of adult acts that for them had all been bleached of any significance or purpose.

From the frail, dreamy youth who showed such extraordinary guts when he had his fenestration operation, he has become an extremely competent, managerial sort of holy man with a talent for the ceremonial aspect of his services.

When she marked my dreamy langourous gaze, she asked me it it had given me much pleasure to play the part of an infant.

A calmness had crept over them both during the day, a liquid lassitude, dreamy in its warm stillness, which they both welcomed as respite from the kineticism of their journey since descending the ice plateau.

The discomfited Zabastes retired, grumbling to himself in an undertone,--and the Laureate, whose dreamy eyes had till now rested on Theos, his self constituted advocate, with an appreciative and almost tender regard, once more took up his harp, and striking a few rich, soft chords was about to sing again, when a great noise as of clanking armor was heard outside, mingled with a steadily increasing, sonorous hum of many voices and the increased tramp, tramp of marching feet.

They had stopped under some trees near the ruined chapel, and she leant against one of them and looked up at him with a strange, dreamy, far-away look in her eyes which were dark as the purple amethyst.

Even in her fatigue and in this dreamy twilight she was conscious of a latent excitement that was not lulled to sleep.

The ontologist relaxed again, and began floating through a dreamy patch of light and darkness.

When he was gone Osmond sat down in the library and dealt with letters himself, and to Reggie, smoking a dreamy pipe, it appeared that he found composition difficult.

If he had learned anything about Lady Violet Rochelle in the past several hours, it was that behind her dreamy air of otherworldliness throve a maddeningly independent female who was capable of doing anything she thought was to his benefit.

We had honeymooned in the Lake District and had returned to our dreamy Peewit Cottage in the village of Hawksrill in the Dales.