dream-child

Is it a description of an imaginary dream-child who seldom has problems or, when she does, hurdles them easily 100 percent of the time?

You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985

Is it a description of an imaginary dream-child who seldom has problems or, when she does, hurdles them easily 100 percent of the time?

You’re a Better Parent Than You Think! Raymond N. Guarendi 1985

Now this was the area where women were reduced to little more than a dream-child.

Oral History Interview with Mary Robertson, August 13, 1979. Interview H-0288. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) 1979

Allee was most familiar with the brown-eyed dream-child, the little family at the parsonage were quite well acquainted with her, and occasionally Gail caught a fleeting glimpse of that hidden spirit, but to the rest of the little world in which she lived she was a bright-eyed, gay-hearted little romp, whose efforts to lend assistance to others were always leading her into mischief, oftentimes with unhappy results.

At the Little Brown House Ruth Alberta Brown

I knew then that the end was near; the end had been near in the old grandmother's case sixty years before when the dream-child called in the day.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

I thanked God that we were not out in it, following the dream-child.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

At least, so it should be; and so it always had been with me until the spring when the dream-child first came into our lives.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

One day, on a dull, drowsy afternoon, the dream-child called.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

He came from the sea, and at his coming the ghostly dream-child fled, nevermore to lure my wife away from me with its exciting cry.

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920

What wild, terrible rovings we had, she straining forward, eager to overtake the dream-child; I, sick at heart, follow -

Further Chronicles of Avonlea Lucy Maud 1920