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Example sentences for "dreamed"

Lexicographically close words:
dreadnought; dreadnoughts; dreads; dream; dreame; dreamer; dreamers; dreames; dreameth; dreamful
  1. Advance, then, by God's help, not so much to fight as to conquer.

  2. Next came the complaints and demands of the clergy.

  3. The price at which he was to receive tobacco, "either for commodities or upon bills," was fixed at three shillings for the best and eighteen pence for the second-rate.

  4. Mother Michel, I do bethink me, I dreamed of Moumouth last night.

  5. I never dreamed you'd take it so seriously, and I'm heartily sorry to have vexed you.

  6. Now it was as though the phantom had spoken, and a hidden drama of which I had never dreamed unfolded itself before me.

  7. Instead of the down- stricken criminal I had dreamed of, there stood before me a man of society thinking about the affairs of his club.

  8. Sometimes he seated himself near me, pale, melancholy, clothed in mourning, and breathed into my heart a venomous bitterness, such as I had never dreamed of.

  9. Yes, I had dreamed of being an avenger, a justiciary, and I allowed myself to be caught up almost instantly into the whirlwind of that life of pleasure whose destructive power those who see it only from the outside cannot measure.

  10. How many times--happening to be alone with her, and not knowing how to tell her what was weighing on my heart--how many times I had dreamed that the barrier between us would not for ever divide us.

  11. Fortunately, too, the bulldogs had learned to know him, and never dreamed of disturbing his movements.

  12. I dreamed that Count Kostia had a daughter, and that he made her very unhappy, because she had the twofold misfortune of not being his daughter, and of resembling in a striking manner a woman whose remembrance he did not cherish.

  13. He dreamed out his early reminiscences in music, and these national memories became embalmed in the history of art.

  14. Chateaubriand dreamed of an Eve innocent, yet fallen; ignorant of all, yet knowing all; mistress, yet virgin.

  15. I dreamed it would be nameless bliss, As I loved, loved to be; And to this object did I press As blind as eagerly.

  16. After I went to they dreamed most possible still more bed I could not disagreeably twice.

  17. She had dreamed of love, had been in love with love and with being loved, had believed she loved; but nothing in her experience compared with such rapture as to-night obsessed her being, wholly and without respite.

  18. She felt as one who had dreamed a dream and was not yet sure that she had waked.

  19. Do you perhaps think I regret the old chains, because I have not found the happiness dreamed of in freedom?

  20. If I had dreamed that my warning would have brought you here, I should have withheld it.

  21. Believe me, Hugo, it is only muddy below in the depths, where people seek for treasures; and an icy breath blows above in the height, where one dreamed of nothing but sunlight.

  22. When I was very, very young and had my little doll, I dreamed of you.

  23. All my life I had dreamed of doing my own work.

  24. I grew into womanhood and still I dreamed of you.

  25. It was a natural thing enough that had befallen the strange pair; only Meg, with her eyes fixed on the stars, had never dreamed of its possibility, and her heart had sunk.

  26. I dreamed I had lost you, that you had leaped over a precipice," he cried.

  27. He little dreamed that I was Il Passero, for whom he had been spreading the net for years!

  28. Naturally, he never dreamed that that quiet and respectable house, high on the beautiful Surrey hills, was the abode of a woman for whom the police of Europe were everywhere searching.

  29. Those who passed the imposing gates of the beautiful old English manor-house never dreamed that it sheltered one of the most notorious female criminals in Europe.

  30. She never dreamed that the source of the woman's wealth was highly suspicious, or that the constant travelling was in order to evade the police.

  31. They never dreamed that for both of them the police were in search.

  32. I have known Il Passero perform many kindly acts to persons in distress who have never dreamed that they have received money from a notorious international thief.

  33. Sherrard, however, little dreamed how great was Dorise's love for Hugh, and how deeply she regretted having written that hasty letter to Shapley.

  34. Yet nobody dreamed that he, of all men, had been present when the mysterious shot was fired, or that he was, indeed, the cause of the secret attack.

  35. Dorise little dreamed that if her lover married her he would inherit the remainder of old Mr. Henfrey's fortune.

  36. It was never dreamed that the bristly-haired alert little man, who was so often seen in the salerooms of Paris when antique silver was being sold, was the notorious Sparrow.

  37. I now saw much that I had not dreamed of.

  38. All that I have dreamed of angels was then realized.

  39. There seemed to rise in the horizon the dome and campaniles and lofty aisles of some celestial fane, such as he had often more than dreamed of raising to the revealed author of life and death.

  40. He dreamed that he was chasing Matey, in the form of a huge rabbit, armed with a stick.

  41. When he slept, he dreamed of Matey; this time in the form of a huge fox, whose jaws slashed the air in the most fearsome manner.

  42. But I never dreamed they would try to surprise the men in ambush.

  43. Tubby ventured to say, evidently greatly thrilled by the spectacle that could never have been dreamed of a few generations back.

  44. I never dreamed that rough riders like the German cavalrymen would want to be caught leading such ragtag animals along.

  45. I dreamed about that grand paper hunt you told us about, Merritt," Tubby announced, as with his chums he sauntered over to the inn to see what chance there was for getting something to eat.

  46. Every stranger in Antwerp was under more or less suspicion in those days, for it was becoming known that the German secret service had for years maintained the most wonderful system of spying in France, England and Belgium ever dreamed of.

  47. But we never dreamed that these traitors would venture into this house tonight.

  48. Why, the place was swarming with enemies--and I never dreamed it!

  49. He was in uniform; I never dreamed he was not the genuine thing.

  50. And Brandes' reply was correct; Ruhannah never dreamed that it made a penny's difference to Brandes whether Nick Stoner won or whether it was Deborah Glenn which the wild-voiced throng saluted.

  51. I never dreamed that those men would come to my stateroom.

  52. That night she dreamed of the Yellow Devil in Herr Wilner's box, and, awaking, remembered her dream.

  53. Everybody I met I thought was a detective, and all night long I dreamed of my mother.

  54. While Raby that night dreamed troublously of the events of the day, a soldier was sitting in his tent near Kandahar, some four thousand or more miles away, reading a letter.

  55. Little dreamed she, as she sat by the death-bed that morning, and wrote those few dying words, into whose hands her little letter would fall, or what a spell they would work on the life of him who received them.

  56. And when you wrote this little letter," said he, showing her the precious scrap of paper, "how little you dreamed who would bless you for it!

  57. Little dreamed the brave head-master how truly his prophecy would be fulfilled.

  58. When Jonah was telling me about his good protector, John, how little I dreamed it was you!

  59. If you had not mentioned it," he said, "I should never have dreamed of such a thing.

  60. There was no special reason to connect Halgrove with the losses, except that Jeffreys would never have dreamed of speculating if he hadn't been led on.

  61. For Prince Ferdinand and his clique dreamed of the Greater Bulgaria which they should rule.

  62. No, he had never dreamed of such a thing, he said.

  63. He had become quite a master of the art of book-keeping; and as to geography and astronomy, I am not sure but he could have told some things about them which his former teacher never dreamed of.

  64. I have said before, that the peddler has been charged with a great many sins which probably he never dreamed of, and certainly never committed.

  65. All night I have thought and dreamed of her.

  66. So she replaced them, ate her supper, went to sleep, and dreamed all night that she was walking on thistles.

  67. Here on Vesta, to make sure there is an Earth in the future, you're going to do things never dreamed of by your Terran Space Patrol instructors there.

  68. Nevertheless, those corporations were so numerous as to be effectively open to a far larger proportion of the population than, in those days, had ever dreamed before of participating in the Government.

  69. As that was impossible, she did her best to seem gay; and, being rather excited, she succeeded so well that no one dreamed what an effort she was making.

  70. Staring up into the green gloom of the horse-chestnut trees above him, he dreamed dreams of all sorts, and was just imagining himself tossing on the ocean, in a voyage round the world, when the sound of voices brought him ashore in a flash.

  71. On the other hand, her father had acquired as much affection for George as for a son, and treated him as such; though he never dreamed that his daughter might from his behavior be led one day to select him as a husband.

  72. With these reflections the merchant dropped asleep, and dreamed of "Africa and golden joys.

  73. It would be difficult to select a place better adapted for the peculiar purpose; unguarded and unsuspected, nobody had ever dreamed of any smuggling attempt being made there.

  74. It is so wonderful to one who never dreamed of such things being in the woods!

  75. But she never dreamed that Frances had not mentioned the automobile as a money-maker for that summer.

  76. Who would have dreamed that the dusty old place would look like this with a few pieces of furniture and a good clean-up of the rooms.

  77. Oh, I never dreamed there was so much trouble to just raising asparagus!

  78. After this, many subjects that interest Girl Scouts were taken up and discussed, and the girls from Green Hill Farmhouse were more deeply impressed with the wonders of scouting than they had dreamed possible.

  79. I never dreamed of using them for this," returned Mrs. James.

  80. It was evening before Natalie dreamed it, and they turned toward the house with appetites that made them as ravenous as any half-starved tramp.

  81. I never dreamed how nice it is to be a farmer.

  82. Neither of the girls dreamed that Mrs. Wardell was referring to Miss Mason and her Troop, so they kept guessing who the acquaintance might be.

  83. They tramped along the foot-path that ran beside the road and Norma said jokingly: "When we hiked this from the station we never dreamed we would be retracing our steps so soon.

  84. I never dreamed so much could be found in Nature that is so absorbing to read about or study.

  85. The Sunday visit proved to be very interesting and satisfactory, for both girls saw how much the Scouts could do that they had never dreamed of before.


  86. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dreamed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.