Perhaps it was all a vividly conceived dream.

But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.

That night he dreamed a dream violent with passion, in which he and the Woman, now the teacher, did everything except engage in the act ( and this probably only because he had never engaged in the act in reality ), and when he awoke the next morning his heart was afire.

He saw with John Hunter now that the perfectability of man was a dream.

One day Maeterlinck, coming with a friend upon an event which he recognized as the exact pattern of a previous dream, detailed the ensuing occurrences in advance so accurately that his companion was completely mystified.

At that moment Kipling was overwhelmed with awed amazement, suddenly recalling that these identical details of scene, action and word had occurred to him in a dream six weeks earlier.

Dr. Hilprecht was uncertain as to the language used by the ancient priest in his dream.

That the dream was a reality on the infinite progressions of universal, gradient frequencies, across which the modern professor and the priest of ancient Nippur met??

Other hitters bloomed with more or less vigor in the news and a few even dared to dream of matching Ruth, who was still called Jidge by all his friends, or Leo or Two-Head by those who dared to taunt him ( Leo was the name of the ball player he liked the least ) and who called most of the world `` Kid ''.

It was like a recurrent, annoying dream, but now the dream was beginning to take on overtones of a nightmare.

However, Haney knew it was not a dream.

Here was what was called the American dream, namely, the effort to build a structure which would be something new in history and to do so in such fashion that God could bless it.

The American dream was compounded of many strains.

Well, what did that matter when the sun was shining and there were dreams to dream about??

Her mouth, soft and full, was something for any man to dream about.

But now the dream was over.

There was no dream of escape for these people.

It is alleged, too, that at a time when the influence of Ambrose required vigorous support, he was admonished in a dream to search for, and found under the pavement of the church, the remains of two martyrs, Gervasius and Protasius.

As soon as he woke from the dream, the young Aeschylus began writing a tragedy, and his first performance took place in 499 BC, when he was only 26 years old ; He would win his first victory at the City Dionysia in 484 BC.

As `` a matter of fact no such complete solution of the dream has ever been accomplished in any case,, and what is more, every one attempting such solution has found that in most cases there have remained a great many components of the dream the source of which he has been unable to explain nor is the discussion closed on the subject of the mantic or prophetic power of dreams ''.

This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.

Some cultures practiced dream incubation with the intention of cultivating dreams that are prophetic.

* Barry Dennen, in Norman Jewison's musical Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1973 ), portrayed a cruel Pilate who after suffering a prophetic dream ( which in the Gospel of Matthew is dreamed by Pilate's wife ) is very reluctant to put Christ to death, but succumbs to mob pressures.

Second, because Abraham acted on a prophetic vision of what God had asked him to do, the story exemplifies how prophetic revelation has the same truth value as philosophical argument and thus carries equal certainty, notwithstanding the fact that it comes in a dream or vision.

: The leader of the underground Resistance movement against the machinations of Gotou, the Heroine is a strong woman who is saved by the Hero during a prophetic dream at the beginning of the game.

Londo tells Sinclair of a prophetic dream he once had, a vision of his own death where he saw himself and G ' Kar, both 20 years older, strangle each other to death.

* This episode provides the first look at Londo Mollari's prophetic dream of his fate, which includes several scenes that will appear in future episodes of the series.

Buffy often has prophetic dreams, and it is in a dream that she first sees one of The Gentlemen ; she sees a flash of his face just as Riley touches her shoulder.

Buffy has a vivid dream ( a very undead Drusilla dusts Angel ) which she fears is prophetic and realises that Spike and Dru may still be alive.

" Buffy is not shown to have witnessed this conversation, which lends credence to her fear that this dream is prophetic, yielding real information about things outside her direct experience to date.

" The " Jewish national idea, which can never become aggressive and warlike " will raise aloft its flag, which symbolizes the joining of the prophetic vision of " truth and justice with the noble dream of the unity of mankind.

Furthermore, she has had a prophetic dream about her younger brother Orestes and believes that he is dead.

Argentille has a crazy prophetic dream ( 195-240 ).

Kiyoaki has a third major prophetic dream.

Universally, the haḍra is almost always followed by Qur ' anic recital in the tarteel style-which according to al-Junayd al-Baghdadi, was a prophetic instruction received through a dream.

For instance, in order to determine whether a man could go hunting, he had to wait till one of the elders had had a prophetic dream ( matibahi ).

In legend, St Kenelm was a member of the royal family of Mercia, a boy king and martyr, murdered by an ambitious relative despite receiving a prophetic dream warning him of the danger.

Bart tells Homer that the entire scene is a dream conjured up by Homer's mind after he fell asleep watching The Towering Inferno, at which point Homer asks Bart how he knows the name of his prophetic vision.

Isao is moved to Ichigaya Prison in late January, and a long prophetic dream is described.

He took Jiang Ziya in his coach to the court and appointed him prime minister and gave him the title Jiang Taigong Wang (" The Great Duke's Hope ", or " The expected of the Great Duke ") in reference to a prophetic dream Danfu, grandfather of Wenwang, had had many years before.

The Master of the Straits lets them pass, and they come to the far western shore of Éire, where a delegation is waiting for them ; Moiread, Drustan mab Necthana's younger sister, saw their coming in a prophetic dream.