pipe dream

I fall back into a dream and then suddenly there is a tapping on the window just above my bed.

And then I said, ‘Well, chief, when the admiral comes aboard, the first mate has to pipe him in.’

So where does this leave the millions of Palestinians—like my relatives—who dream of self-determination and a sovereign state?

Aristide washed and powdered Jean himself, the landlord lounging by, pipe in mouth, administering suggestions.

Drone: the largest tube of a bag-pipe, giving forth a dull heavy tone.

The pipe has a modern look and is altogether unlike those found by the English in use among the Indians in Virginia.

She would never forget it; but realizing its gravity, she decided thereupon never to tell it—the dream—to anybody.

Little did Tressan dream to what a cask of gunpowder he was applying the match of his smug pertness.