All 6 Uses of
reverie
in
War and Peace
- The boy, curly-headed like his mother and glowing with health, sat on his knee, and Prince Andrew began telling him the story of Bluebeard, but fell into a reverie without finishing the story.†
Chpt 9
- Napoleon stopped his horse and again fell into the reverie from which Berthier had aroused him.†
Chpt 10 *
- And when Dunyasha willingly promised to do it all for her, Natasha sat down on the floor, took her old ball dress, and fell into a reverie quite unrelated to what ought to have occupied her thoughts now.†
Chpt 11
- She was roused from her reverie by the talk of the maids in the next room (which was theirs) and by the sound of their hurried footsteps going to the back porch.†
Chpt 11
- When Gerasim roused him from his reverie the idea occurred to him of taking part in the popular defense of Moscow which he knew was projected.†
Chpt 11
- Reveries about Sonya had had something merry and playful in them, but to dream of Princess Mary was always difficult and a little frightening.†
Chpt 12
Definition:
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(reverie) the state of daydreaming