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reverie
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synonyms: woolgathering, brown study ???
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Definition:a state of being pleasantly lost in thought; daydreamgratuitous sound file: by limetoe, (original trimmed/edited to reduce file size)
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She caught herself in reveries on what might have been,
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"It is true that on that you can't have come from very far away..."
And he sank into a reverie, which lasted a long time.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. The Little Prince, p.14 (Katherine Woods translation) (1943)
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The sound of a door opening above brought me out of my reverie.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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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. He had long grown used to sleeping with a strong light on his face.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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There is magic in it. Let the most absent-minded of men be plunged in his deepest reveries— stand that man on his legs, set his feet a-going, and he will infallibly lead you to water, if water there be in all that region.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick
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Prince Andrew began telling him the story of Bluebeard, but fell into a reverie without finishing the story.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman . Simon & Schuster
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I had not courage to walk straight into the apartment; but I desired to divert him from his reverie, and therefore fell foul of the kitchen fire, stirred it, and began to scrape the cinders.
Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights (1847)
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Helen sighed as her reverie fled, and getting up, obeyed the monitor without reply as without delay.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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