1 Last night I dreamed I saw that man coming into the yard, she said, shuddering.
2 As a dream when one awaketh, so, oh Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
3 Tom had stood, during this speech, with his hands raised, and his eyes dilated, like a man in a dream.
4 His dreams of the past night, mingled with Cassy's prudential suggestions, considerably affected his mind.
5 In those days, this matter of slavery had never been canvassed as it has now; nobody dreamed of any harm in it.
6 There was about it an undulating and aerial grace, such as one might dream of for some mythic and allegorical being.
7 But as in an hour, this river of dreams and wild romance has emerged to a reality scarcely less visionary and splendid.
8 St. Clare saw her as in a dream, while she placed in the small hands a fair cape jessamine, and, with admirable taste, disposed other flowers around the couch.
9 She was always in motion, always with a half smile on her rosy mouth, flying hither and thither, with an undulating and cloud-like tread, singing to herself as she moved as in a happy dream.
10 Wide galleries ran all around the four sides, whose Moorish arches, slender pillars, and arabesque ornaments, carried the mind back, as in a dream, to the reign of oriental romance in Spain.
11 He drank more brandy than usual; held up his head briskly, and swore louder than ever in the daytime; but he had bad dreams, and the visions of his head on his bed were anything but agreeable.
12 In dreams, a gentle voice came over his ear; he was sitting on the mossy seat in the garden by Lake Pontchartrain, and Eva, with her serious eyes bent downward, was reading to him from the Bible; and he heard her read.
13 The tension of the nerves, which had never ceased a moment since the first hour of her flight, had given way, and a strange feeling of security and rest came over her; and as she lay, with her large, dark eyes open, she followed, as in a quiet dream, the motions of those about her.