'You may go,' she said breaking into his painful reverie.

I followed his example, and each remained for a few minutes wrapt in his own painful reverie.

After a few moments, the painful reverie subsided, and her breathing returned to its odd rhythm: deep, slow and soft.

Her painful reveries were interrupted by the voice of Luke Jensen.

A slight noise from behind him served to pull him from his painful reverie.

Startled out of my painful reverie, I shrugged helplessly.

I felt that she was imprisoned in her strange fashionable garments and lost in some painful reverie.

In an intensely vivid piece of writing, Siler sends Allie on a mad dash in which the visceral thrills of a cross-country manhunt dissolve into painful reveries about a father's death and a lover's betrayal.

If painful reveries of any kind had once overwhelmed him, they did so no longer.

He was sunk deep in a painful reverie; he neither saw nor heard me, and I stood and watched him unobserved.