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reverie
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    Lila Mayhew trailed off into a sort of reverie, and the bald man peered out the living-room window.†  (source)
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    The Count looked up from his reverie to find Tanya standing in the doorway.†  (source)
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    The rattle of kibble against the steel pan finally shook him out of his reverie.†  (source)
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    "Yo," Quentin answered, shaken from some distant reverie.†  (source)
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    I have heard that Sanaubar's suggestive stride and oscillating hips sent men to reveries of infidelity.†  (source)
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    The world went on, as it does, without my full participation, and I only woke up from the reverie when someone said my name.†  (source)
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    Elwood carved each syllable with such precision that the students around him stirred from their reveries, curious as to what kind of black boy talked like that.†  (source)
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    I went south for a month's vacation in my home town and spent it in an atmosphere of reverie and unreality, as though I had lived that month once already and had not been interested by it the first time either.†  (source)
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    Others around them tune in to their conversation, raising their heads toward the two men before lapsing back into silent reveries, sinking deep into their own thoughts.†  (source)
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    I was loafing under the great oak tree in our yard, deep in some reverie which I have now forgotten, except that it involved some secret, secret thoughts of one of the Harris boys across the yard.†  (source)
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    And he was grateful too for her effect on his father, whose politeness, when he recalled he was in the company of a young woman, would jar him from what otherwise were interminable reveries and would bring his attention back for a while to the here and now.†  (source)
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    Wang was shocked out of his reverie, but then realized that the director of the Nanotechnology Research Center wasn't talking to him, but to a young engineer who had also been staring at the woman.†  (source)
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    The execrable, undisciplined, limp-wristed flatulent products of those reveries already have been described.†  (source)
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