Looking at the slim figure moving in the shimmering light, a kind of dreaminess to her presence, Figg shook his head. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Then came a listless vacuity, a tawdry dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 80, June, 1864] Reference
Again the old man paused, dreaminess on his gentle face. From Wordnik.com. [The Pirate Shark] Reference
He shook himself briefly, and lost that vague dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [This Scepter'd Isle]
Any dreaminess they incline to look on as ‘a bit barmy.’. From Wordnik.com. [Flowering Wilderness] Reference
He looked at her, and his voice lost some of its dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [War for the Oaks]
The haggard watchfulness of her face was submerged in dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [Starship]
When Mary awoke late in the morning, a blurry dreaminess lingered. From Wordnik.com. [The Lightkeeper]
Clare's wistful dreaminess had vanished now, and she was bright and animated. From Wordnik.com. [The Carved Cupboard] Reference
Oh, oh, oh the dreaminess of two full days of nothing to do and nowhere to be. From Wordnik.com. [idiot-milk Diary Entry] Reference
The dreaminess and seeming attainable-ness of Michael Phelps and Apolo Anton Ohno?. From Wordnik.com. [Why I Love the Olympics: A Love Letter to Apolo Anton Ohno and Michael Phelps « The Blog at 16th and Q] Reference
However, one thing can't be denied, and that is James Purefoy's oppressive dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-05-01] Reference
Her eyes were soft and limpid, and they held an expression of dreaminess in their depths. From Wordnik.com. [Phyllis A Twin] Reference
The dreaminess had faded from the other's eyes, to be replaced by a look of bewilderment. From Wordnik.com. [The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian]
Wasn't that what Obama's Dreams of My Father meant -- it's about the dreaminess of America. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Lydon: Jill Lepore: Tea Party Time... and the Death of Compassion (AUDIO)] Reference
The Breton or Celtic imagination had peculiar qualities of dreaminess, and magic and mystery. From Wordnik.com. [French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France] Reference
There was a far-away look in her eyes, and her voice had a sad dreaminess which was new to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Deadlocked City] Reference
And it was Spain that nearly took down the team that harkens to restore that dreaminess of old. From Wordnik.com. [Spain nearly pulls off monumental upset] Reference
It was a time to celebrate and dunk the self in artificial dreaminess like one bobbing for apples. From Wordnik.com. [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference
"It was an accident," he cried, sharply; the voice had lost its dreaminess, and sounded clear now. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 6, May, 1896] Reference
Nylan yawned, as a dreaminess passed across him, and he could feel that Ayrlyn experienced it, too. From Wordnik.com. [The Chaos Balance]
Ruth had an element of romanticism in her character, which perhaps accounted for her dreaminess at times. From Wordnik.com. [The Moving Picture Girls Snowbound Or, The Proof on the Film] Reference
As quickly as it came, the odd feeling of prescience vanished, and the last vestiges of dreaminess with it. From Wordnik.com. [Curse of the Shadowmage]
She paused, and then went on again, her voice quiet and pleasant in the general dreaminess of the atmosphere. From Wordnik.com. [The White Cottage Mystery]
All, or nearly all, of the drawings share a moody tone, a certain melancholy dreaminess, and a shadowy quietude. From Wordnik.com. [Not the Seurat We Think We Know] Reference
They are preceded or followed by a state of languor or dreaminess, by a species of depression, and even by stupor. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
The moon sailed over the treetops, and a ghostly dreaminess lulled every sense, not to sleep, but to languid repose. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
“What are you thinking of, Katharine?” he asked suspiciously, noticing her tone of dreaminess and the inapt words. From Wordnik.com. [Night and Day, by Virginia Woolf] Reference
The head was turned a little, and the eyes regarded something distant, with a half wishful, half deprecating dreaminess. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of To-Day] Reference
The graininess and dreaminess of photographs make them accessible, seemingly representational, like a painting or drawing. From Wordnik.com. [Marina Cashdan: The Dichotomy of Sally Mann: "The Family and the Land" at the Photographers' Gallery, London] Reference
But she is more explorer than go-getter, given to dreaminess and poetry with a tendency to clam up when she's put on the spot. From Wordnik.com. [Erika Schickel: Acceptance] Reference
In the valley there might be fog and the chill of the north, but on the mountains lay the warmth and the dreaminess of the south. From Wordnik.com. [The California Birthday Book] Reference
Celtic melancholy, Celtic dreaminess, Celtic "other-worldliness"; and we forget the qualities that made Caesar's Gauls, St. Paul's. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
She was sitting at a table in the drawing-room, and, with persistent dreaminess, gazing through the half-open door into the garden. From Wordnik.com. [Dream tales and prose poems] Reference
And he told the judge in a richer brogue than usual that he was a painter subject to irresistible fits of dreaminess and must be excused. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
To not be slaves to fashion, either left or right, old Lefty dreaminess or neo-con idiocy, but look at what works and what does not work. From Wordnik.com. [Larry Beinhart: Capitalism 104, Part II] Reference
That evening she had not even observed Alba's dreaminess, Dorsenne once gone, and it required that Hafner should call her attention to it. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
He had no dreaminess -- meditation was no part of his mental habit -- a poetical fancy would, in him, have been an indication of insanity. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
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