 |
"Daydream" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of thunder failed to awaken Paul to the reality of the brewing tempest; it reached him in his daydream, but as a message not of the wrath of heaven but of the wrath of man. He mistook it for the ceaseless voice of the guns and weaved it into his brooding as Wagner wove the Valkyrie theme into the score of the Nibeluengen. A faint breeze whispered ...
— The Orchard of Tears • Sax Rohmer
... of a clerk broke abruptly upon this daydream. He had a telegram in his hand, and Thorpe, rousing himself with an effort, took the liver-coloured envelope, and looked blankly at it. Some weird apprehension seized upon him, as if he belonged to the peasant ...
— The Market-Place • Harold Frederic
... hazy daydream and his thoughts wandered again to Betty—he imagined vaguely that they had had a disagreement because she refused to go to the party as the back part of the camel. He was just slipping off into a chilly doze when he was wakened by the taxi-driver opening the ...
— Tales of the Jazz Age • F. Scott Fitzgerald |
Words linked to "Daydream" : reverie, daydreaming, envisage, idle, moon, stagnate, slug, dream, stargaze, oneirism, castle in the air, ideate, air castle, dreaming, conceive of, laze |
Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org
|
