What is "revery"

Usage examples of "revery".

But he was already beginning to visualize into hypnogogic revery and sleep was coming.

At least daily, Proxenus would startle Aedon out of his frequent reveries in the courtyard by whacking him on the head with his makeshift wooden sword, sending him into a chase that would end with the boys racing through the house, wrestling on the hard tile floors and getting underfoot of the long-suffering elderly servants who attempted to maintain order.

Were I, by any chance, to fall into one of those reveries, with which I have often lost the golden hours at Hamadan, or in our old cave, I should hear, some fine morning, his Sultanship of Roum rattling at my gates.

I am continually awakened from my reveries by the jargon of an Andalusian peasant who is setting out rose-bushes, and the song of a pretty Andalusian girl who shows the Alhambra, and who is chanting a little romance that has probably been handed down from generation to generation since the time of the Moors.

Furthermore, the Brahminic thinkers and sages were a distinct class of men whose whole lives were absorbed in introspective reveries and metaphysical broodings calculated to stimulate the imagination and arouse to the keenest consciousness all the latent marvels and possibilities of human experience, thus furnishing the most favorable conditions for exactly such a belief as that of transmigration, an endless series of ever varying adventures for the imperishable soul.

A realization of his predicament at last supplanted the geologic reveries that had ifiled his mind.

And the sun perceptibly smaller, according to the astronomers, and the earth cooled down a number of degrees, and inconceivable arts practised by men of a type yet undreamed of, and all the fighting creeds merged in one great universal A knock at his door interrupted his revery.

When I come up out of my revery, I see Ardelia lookin' at her stiddy and kind a sot.

And, even accepting that imprudence in the extremest sense, - by the more penetrating judge of the higher order of character, it will probably be considered as the magnificent folly of a bold nature, excited at once by position and prosperity, by religious credulities, by patriotic aspirings, by scholastic visions too suddenly transferred from revery to action, beyond that wise and earthward policy which sharpens the weapon ere it casts the gauntlet.

These sudden congealments in the state of revery, which a single word suffices to evoke, do occur.

Woe to the brain-worker who allows himself to fall entirely from thought into revery!

He roused himself from his revery to put a piece of hand-loomed cotton cloth on the ground beneath Hunapu's hands.

Suddenly his revery was broken by three soft beeps on a digital watch on his wrist.

All the tumultuous interrogation points of revery recurred to him in throngs, but without troubling him.

So still and subdued and yet somehow preluding was all the scene, and such an incantation of revery lurked in the air, that each silent sailor seemed resolved into his own invisible self.