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Examples
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It might have been a-dream, except that she was only too aware of the physical reality of his nearness.
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While floating a-dream twixt the horns of the moon.
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The voices of the souls unborn are half a-dream with Paradise.
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Prudence, although her face was all a-dream, bent conscientiously over the bit of linen in her hands.
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The boy raised his head, brown eyes a-dream with visions of automobiles, steam engines, and hook and ladder outfits.
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John scarcely heard him as he stood, eyes a-dream, looking over the even, carefully raked turf.
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It must be autumn at home now – the harbour is a-dream and the old Glen hills blue with haze, and Rainbow Valley a haunt of delight with wild asters blowing all over it – our old 'farewell-summers.'
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There came a soft warm evening, when all the world seemed a-dream; and he had been working hard, and there came to him a yearning for the stars.
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To Youth, while youth is in the arteries, Paris is ever Paris, a-throb with dreams, a-dream with love, a-love with triumphs to be triumphed o'er.
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But the fair Yolande heeded him none at all, sitting with eyes a-dream and sighing ever and anon; insomuch that the Duchess, watching her slyly, sighed amain also and presently spake:
qroqqa commented on the word a-dream
His hero is caused, by a novel device, to fall asleep and a-dream; and thus he is given yesterday.
—Dorothy Parker, review of Give Me Yesterday by her arch-nemesis A.A. Milne, in The New Yorker, 14 Mar. 1931
November 13, 2008