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Meanings of painful revery in English

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Usage of painful revery in English
1
After a brief but painful revery she exclaimed: But what am I thinking of?
Barriers Burned Away
2
She was aroused from her deep and painful revery by a knocking on the basement door.
An Original Belle
3
Before very long, however, he was startled out of a painful revery by a timid voice saying:
Taken Alive
4
Again the whole scene passed before her, and she dwelt upon every word, as she was beginning often to do now, in painful revery.
Barriers Burned Away
5
He was awakened from such painful reveries by a summons to his employer's private office.
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
6
"I don't like Zell's manner," said Edith, after a brief painful revery.
What Can She Do?
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