reverie

• They are preceded or followed by a state of langour or reverie, a kind of depression, and sometimes drowsiness. —  Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
• "Mystical love to God" was the catchword which brought people to plunge into ecstatic reverie, and by complete immersion in contemplation to lose their personality, and by this self-annihilation to be absorbed in God. —  Mystics and Saints of Islam
• In the silent interval of the girl's slow emergence from her reverie, his gaze upon her was so steady that when Lydia finally glanced up at him he could not for a moment look away. —  The Squirrel-Cage
• Nor does any shadow of the coming struggle with the Church disturb the young scholar's reverie, as he wanders beneath "the high embowed roof, with antique pillars massy proof, and storied windows richly dight, casting a dim religious light," or as he hears "the pealing organ blow to the full-voiced choir below, in service high and anthem clear Milton's enjoyment of the gaiety of life stands in bright contrast with the gloom and sternness which strife and persecution fostered in Puritanism at a later time. —  History of the English People, Volume V (of 8) Puritan England, 1603-1660
• It was then about 2 A.M A sharp sound disturbed my reverie--the sound of a horse's hoofs galloping over the rocky river-bed. —  Adventures in Many Lands

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