Lawns
[lɔ:nz]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of walking upon well-kept lawns, denotes occasions for joy and great prosperity. To join a merry party upon a lawn, denotes many secular amusements, and business engagements will be successfully carried on. For a young woman to wait upon a green lawn for the coming of a friend or lover, denotes that her most ardent wishes concerning wealth and marriage will be gratified. If the grass be dead and the lawn marshy, quarrels and separation may be expected. To see serpents crawling in the grass before you, betrayal and cruel insinuations will fill you with despair.
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Examples
- Both stood in a suburb of the city, which was still country-like, with groves and lawns, large gardens, and quiet streets. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Green lawns with flower-beds are before the terrace, and the whole is encircled by the park. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- It is under these regulations only that we can import wrought silks, French cambrics and lawns, calicoes, painted, printed, stained, or dyed, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Surely the leagues of bright green lawns are swept and brushed and watered every day and their grasses trimmed by the barber. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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