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Meanings of profound reverie in English

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Usage of profound reverie in English
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Captain Nemo was silent, and seemed lost in a profound reverie.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea
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She was aroused from her profound reverie by a voice near her asking:
Capitola the Madcap
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And as these questions suggested many others, she sank into a profound reverie.
Which? Or, Between Two Women
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He sits plunged in a profound reverie, with vague eyes gazing unseeing into space.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 22...
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It is rare that a profound reverie does not spring from that glance, where it falls.
Les Misérables
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He seemed buried in a profound reverie.
Manon Lescaut
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The bell for the midday meal roused Kurt from his profound reverie, and he plodded back to the house.
The Desert of Wheat
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He helped himself absently to two water biscuits and a piece of cheese and sank to a profound reverie.
Here are Ladies
9
Mr. Cranium, after a profound reverie, said, "Do you think Mr. Escot would give me that skull?"
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction
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He paused in his walk, falling into a profound reverie in which he lost all sense of his daughter's presence.
The Case of Richard Meynell
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Her profound reverie disturbed by his approach, she rose quickly, advancing to meet Duchemin with both hands offered in sympathy.
Alias the Lone Wolf
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Amid scenes so ungenial and dismal, the god sank into a profound reverie, when he thus soliloquized: 'Who am I?
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 11, September, 1858 / A Mag...
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Soon the knight threw himself on the flowery bank, and leaning his head on his hand fell into a profound reverie.
Legends of Charlemagne
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Next, found myself imagining the delicious state of a man in the grip of a profound reverie, in an absolute solitude.
The new yorker
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He gently put his daughter from him and gave way to a profound reverie in which he remained plunged for some moments.
Monte-Cristo's Daughter
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In a profound reverie he stood, his arms folded, his head on one side, and marks of stupefaction imprinted upon every feature.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 9
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