Not clear; slightly clouded, blurred, or dreamy

📝 The valley looked hazy in the pale morning light.

📖 The Land of Dreams was hazy at every edge, as though the sky itself could not quite make up its mind where to begin.

To shine with a soft, faint, unsteady light

📝 A single candle began to glimmer in the window across the lane.

📖 Silver flowers seemed to glimmer softly in the fields as the wishing-chair drifted low over the sleepy meadows.

Very tired; longing for rest

📝 After the long walk home, everyone felt weary and quiet.

📖 Peter felt strangely weary the moment they crossed the border, as though every mile of the flight had suddenly caught up with him at once.

To sleep lightly for a short time

📝 Grandpa liked to doze in his armchair after Sunday lunch.

📖 Even Chinky, who never rested for a moment on their other adventures, began to doze against the arm of the wishing-chair.

Extremely delicate and light; seeming to belong to another world

📝 Her singing voice was almost ethereal in the empty church.

📖 The music that drifted between the trees was ethereal, so soft and strange that the children could not tell where it began or ended.

To move slowly and gently, as though carried by wind or water

📝 A single feather began to drift down from the shelf above.

📖 The wishing-chair did not so much fly through the Land of Dreams as drift, as slow and gentle as a leaf on a river.

To delay leaving a place; to linger

📝 "Do not tarry," said the guide, "the light is fading fast."

📖 Mollie longed to tarry among the silver flowers a little longer, but Chinky reminded her that here, a moment could turn into a hundred years.

To wake someone up, or to stir them into action

📝 The barking dog managed to rouse the whole street before dawn.

📖 Chinky had to rouse Peter with a firm little shake, terrified of what might happen if his friend slipped fully into a Land-of-Dreams sleep.

To slowly fade away or disappear

📝 The morning mist began to dissolve as the sun climbed higher.

📖 As soon as they crossed back over the border, the dreamy landscape began to dissolve, and the familiar world came sharply into view once more.

A sudden, sharp movement that surprises or wakes you

📝 The train came to a stop with a small jolt.

📖 The soft bump of the wishing-chair landing on the playroom rug was enough of a jolt to wake all three of them properly.

Shining softly or giving off a gentle light of its own

📝 The clock hands glowed a faint, luminous green in the dark bedroom.

📖 The strange pale sky of the Land of Dreams was luminous, as though it were lit from behind by an unseen moon.

A daydream; a state of being lost in one's thoughts

📝 She sat by the window, lost in a happy reverie about the summer.

📖 Mollie fell into a soft reverie of silver gardens and singing lamps, from which Chinky had to shake her, gently and firmly, before it was too late.