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And if that happens, and “if I could have a dream run ... I dream him forwardly placed and just being able, dreamingly, to decide when to pull the trigger.”

From Washington Post • Jun. 8, 2016

And if that happens, and “if I could have a dream run, I dream him forwardly placed and just being able, dreamingly, to decide when to pull the trigger.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2016

"Because there are others of whom you ought to learn, and will learn, I am persuaded," he added, almost dreamingly, as he turned me to the moonlight, now overspread about us, and surveyed me seriously.

From Charles Auchester, Volume 1 of 2 by Sheppard, Elizabeth

Well, our foeman Won't slumber whilst we choose to doze on dreamingly.

From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 98 June 7, 1890 by Various

His parents perceived with anxiety that the little noisy child had grown into a silent, shy boy, who avoided the games of his comrades and dreamingly went his own way.

From In the Yule-Log Glow, Book I Christmas Tales from 'Round the World by Morris, Harrison S. (Harrison Smith)