Poppies
[pɔpi:z]
Definition
(pl. ) of Poppy
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Unserious Contents or Definition
Poppies seen in dreams, represents a season of seductive pleasures and flattering business, but they all occupy unstable foundations. If you inhale the odor of one, you will be the victim of artful persuasions and flattery. (The mesmeric influence of the poppy inducts one into strange atmospheres, leaving materiality behind while the subjective self explores these realms as in natural sleep; yet these dreams do not bear truthful warnings to the material man. Being, in a manner, enforced.)
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Examples
- All amongst the trees he saw moving objects, red, like poppies, or white, like may-blossom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The group were happy enough, but-- Pleasures are like poppies spread; You seize the flower--its bloom is shed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I should think,' said Sam, eyeing the piece of furniture in question with a look of excessive disgust--'I should think poppies was nothing to it. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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