Stumps
[stʌmps]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a stump, foretells you are to have reverses and will depart from your usual mode of living. To see fields of stumps, signifies you will be unable to defend yourself from the encroachments of adversity. To dig or pull them up, is a sign that you will extricate yourself from the environment of poverty by throwing off sentiment and pride and meeting the realities of life with a determination to overcome whatever opposition you may meet.
Typist: Ursula
Examples
- Animated by this reflection, he stumps faster, and looks a long way before him, as a man with an ambitious project in abeyance often will do. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Cut them well back, so the stumps cannot be seen. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Boffin will get all the eagerer for waiting a bit,' says Silas, screwing up, as he stumps along, first his right eye, and then his left. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They turned off the main road, past a black patch of common-garden, where sooty cabbage stumps stood shameless. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Stir your stumps and get some more sticks. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What would you think of a man who stared in ecstasy upon a desert of stumps and said: Oh, my soul, my beating heart, what a noble forest is here! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I once prevailed on the barber to give me some of the suds or lather, out of which I picked forty or fifty of the strongest stumps of hair. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And it don't wear your legs to stumps in talking over a poor fellow's ways as it do to stand up in hornpipes. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The fuel within the Federal lines was exhausted, even to the stumps of trees. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Typist: Ursula