dreamlike

Only at rare moments of exaltation or despair do we hear the lyrical cry rising above the monotone of dreamlike content.

It was a dreamlike state combined with a dreamlike sense of insecurity.

For two or three hours we jogged along the level road which skirts the beautiful lake of Thun, with a dim and dreamlike picture of watery expanses and spectral Alpine forms always before us, veiled in a mellowing mist.

In wild dreamlike procession, embracing whom they met and pointing him out, they carried him on.

It was a distinct yet distant and dreamlike symphony of melodious instruments, as if an airy band had been hidden on the hillside and made faint music at the summons.

When she finally left it and walked down the long hill that sloped to the Lake of Shining Waters it was past sunset and all Avonlea lay before her in a dreamlike afterlight-- "a haunt of ancient peace." There was a freshness in the air as of a wind that had blown over honey-sweet fields of clover.

Through a world of toil and care she flitted with a dreamlike smile, and came hither to find a home among the lightsome hearts of Merry Mount.

But the yearning notes are very far away, and the noisy, blustering world is always bellowing so loud it drowns the dreamlike melody.

But this stupendous fragmentariness heightened the dreamlike strangeness of her bridal life.

Miss Abbey had twice made the experiment of shutting her eyes and opening them again, still finding the figures there, when, dreamlike, a confused hubbub arose in the public room.

Glegg had doubtless the glossiest and crispest brown curls in her drawers, as well as curls in various degrees of fuzzy laxness; but to look out on the week-day world from under a crisp and glossy front would be to introduce a most dreamlike and unpleasant confusion between the sacred and the secular.

His latest novel to be translated into English, Chaos: A Fable, pulls its reader into the dreamlike landscape of Tangier, Morocco, a place Rey Rosa knows well.