Example Sentences

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The river passed quietly in the dreamful noon.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

Still holding him, he pointed the gun down across Hellsfork and over to where the balmy, warm sunshine made soft, dreamful pictures in black and white amid the tinted spurs and ridges of Southpaw.

From The Red Debt Echoes from Kentucky by MacDonald, Everett

In the lift I feel of immortal rapture, in the flying glimpse I gain of truth, Released is the passion that sought perfection, assuaged the ardor of dreamful youth.

From Later Poems by Carman, Bliss

The oaths, in fine, of the Western military nations distinctly breathe of the spirit of war, while those of the more dreamful Eastern world are redolent of light and air, of sun and shade.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Sharman, Julian

Nor must her mood be one of passive idle expectation, dreamful desire of the promised change, neglect of duties in the interval.

From The Gospel According to St. Mark by Chadwick, G. A.