All 4 Uses of
reverie
in
David Copperfield
- I sat looking at Peggotty for some time, in a reverie on this supposititious case: whether, if she were employed to lose me like the boy in the fairy tale, I should be able to track my way home again by the buttons she would shed.†
Chpt 1-3
- 'Lor, Peggotty!' observed my mother, rousing herself from a reverie, 'what nonsense you talk!'†
Chpt 7-9 *
- He leaned against the chimney-piece, brooding so long that I could not decide whether to run the risk of disturbing him by going, or to remain quietly where I was, until he should come out of his reverie.†
Chpt 16-18
- When she went out of the room with Miss Murdstone (no other ladies were of the party), I fell into a reverie, only disturbed by the cruel apprehension that Miss Murdstone would disparage me to her.†
Chpt 25-27
Definition:
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(reverie) the state of daydreaming