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  • Syed's voice broke into my reverie.†   (source)
  • Here Mr. Curtain paused, his face adopting an expression of fond reverie.†   (source)
  • Lila Mayhew trailed off into a sort of reverie, and the bald man peered out the living-room window.†   (source)
  • But what with the juice running down my hand and me nearabout drunk on the butter smell, I am lost in a peach-peeling reverie.†   (source)
  • In my reverie I had opened my mouth a bit, so I tasted some of the blood.†   (source)
  • But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which I must now put aside, writes Aronnax.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Her reverie, once rich in plausible details, had become a passing silliness before the hard mass of the actual.†   (source)
  • And Old Chong kept conducting his own private reverie.†   (source)
  • At the end of my reveries, I sat in the back of the car as my father drove.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in bed—adrift in my sighing, opiated, erotic reveries— I carried on long candid conversations with her: we are inseparable, I imagined us saying (cornily) to each other, each with a hand on the other's cheek, we can never be apart.†   (source)
  • The bell above the door chimes once and I snap out of my reverie.†   (source)
  • She was jolted out of her reverie and floundering for an answer.†   (source)
  • He was startled from his reverie by the steely rasp of a sword being unsheathed.†   (source)
  • Through her reverie of mumbo jumbo she heard the court-appointed lawyer lean over to Richie and offer two words of legal advice: "Plead guilty."†   (source)
  • The execrable, undisciplined, limp-wristed flatulent products of those reveries already have been described.†   (source)
  • I began, breaking into his reverie.†   (source)
  • "So," Mrs. Biscoe said, fluffing that same piece of hair again as she jerked me out of this paranoid reverie, "how did you meet our Roger-son?"†   (source)
  • This reverie was broken as more bolts and nuts bounded down the superstructure onto the car's roof.†   (source)
  • Her reverie ended, she thought of home and bed.†   (source)
  • Sethe groaned and Amy cut her reverie short--long enough to shift Sethe's feet so the weight, resting on leaf-covered stones, was above the ankles.†   (source)
  • "Yo," Quentin answered, shaken from some distant reverie.†   (source)
  • Percy's voice stirred me from my reverie.†   (source)
  • A car screeches into the parking garage, shaking me out of my reverie.†   (source)
  • The air was a reverie of wistful summer things, the last languorous day, a chance to go barelimbed once more, smell the mown clover.†   (source)
  • The sound of the key turning in the front door roused Clary out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, a terrible crash broke into his reverie.†   (source)
  • Ben was drowsing with the reins held loosely in one hand when the wagon hit a stone and jarred us both out of our respective reveries.†   (source)
  • Music is a meditation, a reverie, a respite from madness.†   (source)
  • Florentino Ariza, because he was so quiet and elusive, also earned the esteem of the owner, and during the most arduous period of his grief he would lock himself in the suffocating little rooms to read verses and tearful serialized love stories, and his reveries left nests of dark swallows on the balconies and the sound of kisses and the beating of wings in the stillness of siesta.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The thought of her mortification kept me company for a long time, but the sounds of music and laughter and Cisco Kid screams broke into my pleasant revengeful reveries.†   (source)
  • At this memory, I smile, but Ruth's voice cuts through my reverie, her disappointment evident.†   (source)
  • As a child he had often thought of killing himself, but those were sentimental reveries born of a wish to punish his father and mother and other enemies.†   (source)
  • As the sights of this hated city passed in front of my eyes, I sank into reverie.†   (source)
  • Camel interrupts my reverie.†   (source)
  • Dazed by the sunshine and by my reverie, I felt someone tugging at my sleeve.†   (source)
  • LINDNER (TO MAMA in her reverie) Then I would like to appeal to you, Mrs. Younger.†   (source)
  • Their cries often disturbed his quiet moments of reverie, memories of himself and Aniel long ago.†   (source)
  • I wondered if he was lost in some childhood reverie, or had simply closed up again, like an oyster around its pearl.†   (source)
  • That Alma had been taken by someone else in an on-and-off-and-on-again sort of way didn't distract from her participation in Litvinoff's reveries (which relied heavily on the technique of montage).†   (source)
  • Almost inevitably, his reveries of reunion with her ended in explicit acts of love-making.†   (source)
  • Thomas Stone said, abruptly, breaking into my reverie.†   (source)
  • He was lost, lost in reverie until the crack of the first rifle sounded, then the almost fatal volley that creased his skull-oh my!†   (source)
  • The judge in question was lost in his own aimless reverie as several bottles, glasses and a bucket of ice were brought to the table.†   (source)
  • Bjurman was roused from his reverie by a shadow falling across the table at Café Hedon.†   (source)
  • In one of his solitary "reveries," Adams poured out his thoughts in an amazing letter for anyone so young to have written, and for all it foresaw and said about him.†   (source)
  • Thinking of Mr. Viccars broke my reverie and reminded me that I had not raised the problem of the dress with Mrs. Mompellion.†   (source)
  • My reverie was punctured by a raucous cackling and complaining from a tiny house floating past us.†   (source)
  • Miss Awolowo's words shook Max out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • Both ofus were unassailable proof that each of the tribes of Europe had imported their own separate fevers, predilections, and reveries into the capricious, turbulent consciousness of America.†   (source)
  • I didn't crave their company as much as the opportunity to watch them in their enjoyment and reverie.†   (source)
  • Alessandro had begun to dream, but was pulled from his reverie by the insistent and conscientious action of the corner of his eye.†   (source)
  • Irri broke her reverie to tell her that Ser Jorah Mormont was outside, awaiting her pleasure.†   (source)
  • The reverie is shattered, and with it all the joy of Washington's postwar celebration.†   (source)
  • "—she let herself fall into a moment's reverie.†   (source)
  • Taking their mental vacations, their reveries, sidewise in time as it were?†   (source)
  • He seemed torn out of a reverie.†   (source)
  • He thought of the dreams he'd had and fell deeper into reverie.†   (source)
  • At the mention of his name, Fiedler seemed to wake from the reverie into which he had sunk, and Liz looked at him consciously for the first time.†   (source)
  • When she tiptoed and stayed so quiet, she surrounded herself with a little reverie, and sometimes it seemed to her when she was so stealthy that the quiet she kept was for a sleeping baby, and that she had a baby and was its mother.†   (source)
  • So we wrangled and I smoked and from time to time she fell into a heavy reverie.†   (source)
  • Feld, the shoemaker, was annoyed that his helper, Sobel, was so insensitive to his reverie that he wouldn't for a minute cease his frantic pounding at the other bench.†   (source)
  • As Harry laid down his knife and fork, she seemed to come out of a reverie.†   (source)
  • Clary almost felt guilty interrupting Luke's reverie, but there were practical matters to attend to.†   (source)
  • Angela's voice yanked me from my reverie.†   (source)
  • Jace's voice snapped her out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • Raphael looked almost startled, as if Jace had broken him out of a reverie.†   (source)
  • 'Oh — no,' said Hermione, coming out of her reverie, 'no, it's always packed and really noisy.†   (source)
  • It was a few moments before I was brave enough to break into her reverie.†   (source)
  • When she reaches the podium I snap out of my reverie.†   (source)
  • Her thoughts had begun to drift on a plane between reverie and sleep; circling, eddying.†   (source)
  • The question jogged him out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • Reality, however, was quick to intrude on McCandless's reverie.†   (source)
  • "What did you do with yourself today?" he asked, snapping me out of my reverie.†   (source)
  • The Count's reverie was broken by the sound of a bottle being placed on the bar.†   (source)
  • Startled out of my reverie, my body tensed, ready to bolt.†   (source)
  • Snapping out of her reverie, she turned back to see Magnus getting to his feet.†   (source)
  • You're right," Simon said, snapping her out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • The rattle of kibble against the steel pan finally shook him out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • The Count looked up from his reverie to find Tanya standing in the doorway.†   (source)
  • The Inquisitor's voice cut through his reverie.†   (source)
  • The farmer spoke up, breaking my reverie.†   (source)
  • "She had a crooked nose, Reshi," Bast said, interrupting his master's reverie.†   (source)
  • Travis broke from his reverie and glanced around.†   (source)
  • Catherine's reverie was suddenly interrupted.†   (source)
  • Clary was jerked out of her reverie as they crested a hill and Sebastian pulled Wayfarer up short.†   (source)
  • "Come on," he said then, breaking off her reverie.†   (source)
  • In the middle of his reverie, Macon was interrupted by rapid tapping on the window.†   (source)
  • "There you are," Will said, breaking into her reverie.†   (source)
  • "So," Isabelle said, snapping him out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • Breaking into Jane's distracted reverie, I cleared my throat.†   (source)
  • The sound of jingling harnesses, clomping hooves, and men's voices jarred Eragon out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • The sound of his voice brought her out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • Startled out of his reverie, Eragon could only blink dumbly.†   (source)
  • A grinding noise interrupted his reverie.†   (source)
  • "Clary," face said, breaking her out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • The Doorbell Interrupts My Lawler-scented reverie.†   (source)
  • "I'm sorry," Jace said, snapping her out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • Nevertheless, pleasant as this Las Vegas reverie was, it paled beside another of his visions.†   (source)
  • I was so deep in reverie that I failed to hear Kimbro approach.†   (source)
  • A cloud swept across the boy's face as he was knocked from his reverie.†   (source)
  • A rustling behind him interrupted Dawson's reverie, and he scrambled to his feet.†   (source)
  • Only the mention of her name brought the hag from her dreamyeyed reverie.†   (source)
  • Orik shook himself then and broke from his reverie.†   (source)
  • It was five hours of swinging steel, five hours of hand-eye coordination, and five hours' reverie.†   (source)
  • Snapped out of his reverie, Luke fought to focus his exhausted eyes on the scene in front of him.†   (source)
  • Time had somehow divorced itself from my reveries.†   (source)
  • These reveries were almost pleasurable.†   (source)
  • The loud crash brought him out of his reverie; hurrying from the scene lest Filch turn up, he dashed down the marble staircase and along the passageway below.†   (source)
  • As I struggled groggily up from the depths of my troubled reverie like a drowning man rising to the ocean's surface, it took me a minute to notice why Stuart was so worried: the wind had flattened half our shelter, which rocked violently with each successive gust.†   (source)
  • As he drives through the city during the day and dreams of it at night, his mind vaults into glorious reveries—he envisions this city and this country not just as it was, but better, far better.†   (source)
  • Then the darkness deepened, and came out from behind the trees and bushes, and up through the fields, and the shadows lengthened and joined together; and I thought it looked like water, coming up through the ground, and rising slowly up like the sea; and I fell into a reverie, and was remembering back to the time I crossed the great ocean, and how at that time of day the sea and the sky were the same indigo, so you could not tell where the one left off and the other one began.†   (source)
  • Sometimes it would appear to him in reveries, charged with mystery and hidden significance, a symbol free of all contexts.†   (source)
  • I lapse into terrible reveries.†   (source)
  • "So—this is what I need from you," California Girl was saying, her crisp voice recalling me from my varicolored fever reverie.†   (source)
  • She and Baby Suggs had agreed without saying so that it was unspeakable; to Denver's inquiries Sethe gave short replies or rambling incomplete reveries.†   (source)
  • "Why, Werner" She loses herself momentarily in troubled reverie, surrounded by sleek furniture, some of it wrapped in thick wool blankets.†   (source)
  • "And yet," said Hermione, coming out of her reverie, "I doubt you'd find a woman who sulked for half an hour because Madam Rosmerta didn't laugh at their joke about the hag, the Healer, and the Mimbulus mimbletonia."†   (source)
  • I do know that any mention of Disney Hall launches him into a reverie, and it happens again when I ask if he'd like to see a chamber music performance.†   (source)
  • She was disturbed later by Betty and her helpers clearing the dining room, then those sounds also subsided and, again, Emily was far out along the branching roads of her reveries, drifting by association, and with the expertise born of a thousand headaches, avoiding all things sudden or harsh.†   (source)
  • Alice asked, breaking my reverie.†   (source)
  • No fresh-made newborn left your father alive…… " He frowned into space for a long moment, and then suddenly smiled at me, coming back from his reverie.†   (source)
  • Edgar sat in a reverie, watching his father's hands, shaped by mist, tracing out the letters, and when he opened his eyes again he thought he'd misread the third letter that night.†   (source)
  • And in the manager's office, Mr. Halecki still sits behind his spotless desk (though a new assistant manager with the smile of an ecclesiast is prone to interrupt his reveries over the slightest infraction of the hotel's rules).†   (source)
  • He'd been working slowly, passing in and out of reverie, when his neck hairs began to prickle, as if a rivulet of sweat had been reduced there to salt by the wind, a sensation that at first meant nothing to him.†   (source)
  • The sound startled me from my reverie.†   (source)
  • I snapped out of my reverie, confused.†   (source)
  • I was jolted out of my reverie by a young woman leaning out the front door of the inn, "Damn you, Anker!" she shouted.†   (source)
  • You were supposed to say what Jordan was clearly expecting— She looked out the window and started, jerked out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • I asked her who, but she was lost in reverie, stuck in some horrible memory, unable to extricate herself.†   (source)
  • Miles was so lost in his reverie, it took a moment for the voice coming from off to the side to register.†   (source)
  • He had been walking for a quarter hour, stopping and starting in counterpoint to his thoughts, when the high-pitched tone of a woman describing something with great enthusiasm interrupted his reverie.†   (source)
  • Vic said, emerging from his reverie.†   (source)
  • He believed he could enter her reverie.†   (source)
  • From which reverie he was awoken by Hassan asking, "So how the fug did a perfectly good Austrian Archduke end up in Shitsberg, Tennessee?"†   (source)
  • He'd called them Aro, Caius, and Marcus, nighttime patrons of the arts… "Anyway, you don't irritate the Volturi," Edward went on, interrupting ray reverie.†   (source)
  • His insane reverie was broken; the nervous passenger next to him had touched his left arm-which was raised, the fingers of his hand spread, as if resisting, rigid in their locked position.†   (source)
  • Sam shook herself out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • His idea of bliss (on earth as opposed to bliss in the sky) was a long bath in piping-hot water—his head on the cool white rim, his eyes closed in reverie.†   (source)
  • Whenever he drifted into one of his quiet reveries, David's soft, round features assumed the contemplative expression of a much older person.†   (source)
  • Then we all heard it; the front door opening and my mother's voice, shattering the lawn reverie with a shrillness she had never been able to control.†   (source)
  • When I shook myself from my reverie, I saw that Joseph had moved from the car and was heading in the direction of the tent.†   (source)
  • My reverie was broken by a bellowing.†   (source)
  • The chaplain relished the privacy and isolation of his verdant surroundings and the reverie and meditation that living there fostered.†   (source)
  • "But when writing to you," he declared at the close of one letter, "I fancy myself at Auteuil and chatter on till the last page of my paper awakes me from my reverie."†   (source)
  • Lenny seemed half lost in reverie, in conjure, and maybe people began to feel uncomfortable because he could not seem to stop doing the voice.†   (source)
  • The door opened, mercifully cutting short his reverie, and Peter Holland walked slowly into the lounge.†   (source)
  • He blinked, jolted out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • …yearning but he is part of an assembling crowd, anonymous thousands off the buses and trains, people in narrow columns tramping over the swing bridge above the river, and even if they are not a migration or a revolution, some vast shaking of the soul, they bring with them the body heat of a great city and their own small reveries and desperations, the unseen something that haunts the day—men in fedoras and sailors on shore leave, the stray tumble of their thoughts, going to a game.†   (source)
  • And there was one man of whom Perry had grown especially aware, a robust, upright gentleman with hair like a gray-and-silver skullcap; his face, filled out, firm-jawed, was somewhat cantankerous in repose, the mouth down-curved, the eyes downcast as though in mirthless reverie-a picture of unsparing sternness.†   (source)
  • His thoughts were shattered by the sound of a distant horn—a discordant note that wrenched him from his reverie.†   (source)
  • Jolted from her reverie, Nasuada looked down to find Farica beating at her right arm with a cleaning rag.†   (source)
  • I was lost in reverie about the night before, and when Mr. Lawler called on me, I almost answered, "Yes, Daddy?"†   (source)
  • His reverie interrupted by the return of his horse, who was happy to be brought up from unfamiliar stables, he mounted, and Enrico cantered out the gate into the warm spring night.†   (source)
  • Perry was "ashamed" to take off his trousers, "ashamed" to wear swimming trunks, for he was afraid that the sight of his injured legs would "disgust people," and so, despite his underwater reveries, all the talk about skin-diving, he hadn't once gone into the water.†   (source)
  • Then, to split the reverie of the mood, to shatter the spirit of exaltation over the successful crossing of the river and the return, Mrs. Brown poked her head in the doorway, saying " 'Scuse me, I'd like to have a word with your babies, Mr. Conroy."†   (source)
  • He walked still more quickly, lost in reverie, and before he knew it he was hurrying down McKinley, his own street.†   (source)
  • They walked on in silence for a while, until Fiedler interrupted his own reverie to observe: "I'm beginning to like you.†   (source)
  • There were flaring lust, inward reverie, glowing melancholy, anguished dying, radiant birth.†   (source)
  • He fell into a reverie, beating a light tattoo on the table.†   (source)
  • At this moment he was dragged out of his reverie with a violent jerk.†   (source)
  • Kumalo shook himself out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • Jarvis shook it off, and put another match to his pipe, and after he had read the paper through, sat in a reverie, smoking.†   (source)
  • Poirot started out of a reverie.†   (source)
  • Poirot was sunk in a reverie.†   (source)
  • Her indignant and hopeless reverie was broken when the crowd began pushing back against the walls, the ladies carefully holding their hoops so that no careless contact should turn them up against their bodies and show more pantalets than was proper.†   (source)
  • …best years not in sweet sins but in a dreary flickering of the mind over it knows not what and knows not why, in the gratification of curiosities so feeble that the man is only half aware of them, in drumming of fingers and kicking of heels, in whistling tunes that he does not like, or in the long, dim labyrinth of reveries that have not even lust or ambition to give them a relish, but which, once chance association has started them, the creature is too weak and fuddled to shake off.†   (source)
  • What sounds from the street, what voices drifted up the air-shafts, only made his solitude more real, the detachment of his reveries more delightful.†   (source)
  • Dona Maria would then forget herself in a reverie before the altar and leave the church by another door.†   (source)
  • "Well, it is not bad," said the magician doubtfully, "and in a way it does look a bit like an M." Then he fell into a reverie, stroking his beard, breathing fire, and staring at the paper.†   (source)
  • One day — but 'one day' was not the right expression; just as probably it was in the middle of the night: once — he fell into a strange, blissful reverie.†   (source)
  • She did not know that her face had changed, that reverie had brought a softness to her face which Rhett had never seen before.†   (source)
  • I watched him thoughtfully, or in a reverie rather, lost in admiration of his beautiful and skillful hands, warmed too, by the sense of his presence and a little apprehensive as well.†   (source)
  • Often he would lie from one meal to the next almost without stirring, sometimes asleep, sometimes waking into vague reveries in which it was too much trouble to open his eyes.†   (source)
  • His monstrous reveries came thronging into his memory.†   (source)
  • The clatter of hoofs roused him from a reverie which was half sad, half sweet.†   (source)
  • For in reverie you cannot rise above your achievements nor fall lower than your failures.†   (source)
  • This fantastic suggestion startled Hendon out of his reverie.†   (source)
  • She rested the nape of her neck against the cool iron bed-rail and fell into a reverie.†   (source)
  • Jude started up from his reverie, and saw her.†   (source)
  • "Did uncle call?" asked Helen, with a start out of her reverie.†   (source)
  • My dear man, this is the time to come out of your scientific reverie and act!†   (source)
  • IV Jude's reverie was interrupted by the creak of footsteps ascending the stairs.†   (source)
  • She had never been in love, she had never indulged in sentimental reveries.†   (source)
  • Tess stood in reverie a long time before she thought of asking 'Liza-Lu to come in and sit down.†   (source)
  • She stayed alone in a kind of reverie—a sort of stupor.†   (source)
  • When the meal was ended Anne came out of her reverie and offered to wash the dishes.†   (source)
  • "Well, I'll tell you," said the prince, apparently in a deep reverie.†   (source)
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