Camels
['kæml]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see this beast of burden, signifies that you will entertain great patience and fortitude in time of almost unbearable anguish and failures that will seemingly sweep every vestige of hope from you. To own a camel, is a sign that you will possess rich mining property. To see a herd of camels on the desert, denotes assistance when all human aid seems at a low ebb, and of sickness from which you will arise, contrary to all expectations.
Editor: Michel
Examples
- American deposits in the Miocene display a great variety of camels, giraffe camels with long necks, gazelle camels, llamas, and true camels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Probably he had to look after her camels or help in her trading operations; and he is said to have travelled with caravans to the Yemen and to Syria. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The road was filled with mule trains and long processions of camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- As there are no dromedaries at hand, the band facetiously plays The Camels are coming. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- These camels are very much larger than the scrawny specimens one sees in the menagerie. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We were compelled to jump over upwards of eighteen hundred donkeys, and only one person in the party was unseated less than sixty times by the camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Around it some camels stood, and others knelt. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- You really ought to see their gold and silver camels. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Camels are not beautiful, and their long under lip gives them an exceedingly gallus--[Excuse the slang, no other word will describe it]--expression. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- They persist in not being frightened by the gold and silver camels, and they are banded together to defy the elaborately chased ice-pails. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The camels eat these. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Bored out of the place, and going in for camels. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- It was Eliezer and Rebecca: the camels only were wanting. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Dining-room no less magnificent than drawing-room; tables superb; all the camels out, and all laden. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Editor: Michel