I see explanation is necessary before I can tell you of the substance of my
dreams. Otherwise, little could you know of the meaning of the things I know so well.
Eight-and-twenty days went by, my father, and on the nine-and- twentieth it befell that Chaka, having
dreamed a
dream in his troubled sleep, summoned before him certain women of the kraal, to the number of a hundred or more.
But the incidents of his adventure grew sensibly sharper and clearer under the attrition of thinking them over, and so he presently found himself leaning to the impression that the thing might not have been a
dream, after all.
When Mrs Flintwinch
dreamed, she usually
dreamed, unlike the son of her old mistress, with her eyes shut.
The call of the brook came up through the woods from the valley of birches with all its old allurement; the mellow air was full of the purr of the sea; beyond were fields rimmed by fences bleached silvery gray in the suns of many summers, and long hills scarfed with the shadows of autumnal clouds; with the blowing of the west wind old
dreams returned.
If it wasn't for our
dreams they might as well bury us.
Like other girls she had her
dreams of a possible Prince Charming, young and handsome and debonair.
My first thought was, "Well, what an astonishing
dream I've had!
'By the way, Kitty, if only you'd been really with me in my
dream, there was one thing you WOULD have enjoyed--I had such a quantity of poetry said to me, all about fishes!
Is all that we see or seem But a
dream within a
dream?.
Those who
dream of the banquet, wake to lamentation and sorrow.
A riddle is it still unto me, this
dream; the meaning is hidden in it and encaged, and doth not yet fly above it on free pinions.