Bats
[bæts]
Unserious Contents or Definition
Awful is the fate of the unfortunate dreamer of this ugly animal. Sorrows and calamities from hosts of evil work against you. Death of parents and friends, loss of limbs or sight, may follow after a dream of these ghoulish monsters. A white bat is almost a sure sign of death. Often the death of a child follows this dream.
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Examples
- Now look at the Galeopithecus or so-called flying lemur, which was formerly ranked among bats, but is now believed to belong to the Insectivora. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- I'm like a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty and knows he's no better. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- It would have been as easy for the heath-ponies, bats, and snakes to be vulgar as for her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Among mammals, we see it strikingly displayed in Bats, and in a lesser degree in the Felidae and Canidae. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Lyell asks, and assigns certain reasons in answer, why have not seals and bats given birth on such islands to forms fitted to live on the land? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Why, it may be asked, has the supposed creative force produced bats and no other mammals on remote islands? Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It is certain that insects and blood-sucking bats determine the existence of the larger naturalised quadrupeds in several parts of South America. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- What is a ball-player that bats two hundred and thirty? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- On my view this question can easily be answered; for no terrestrial mammal can be transported across a wide space of sea, but bats can fly across. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- Bats, bears, some animals of the rodent order, such as the porcupine, the dormouse, some squirrels, etc. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- They must have flitted about like bats. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Some men, like bats or owls, have better eyes for the darkness than for the light. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I dreamt another dream, sir: that Thornfield Hall was a dreary ruin, the retreat of bats and owls. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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