Chains
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of being bound in chains, denotes that unjust burdens are about to be thrown upon your shoulders; but if you succeed in breaking them you will free yourself from some unpleasant business or social engagement. To see chains, brings calumny and treacherous designs of the envious. Seeing others in chains, denotes bad fortunes for them.
Typist: Susan
Examples
- She has joined the two chains, and has fastened them to the hasp in the tin case. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Many prisoners die here in their chains. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- He proclaimed to the Italians that the French were coming to break their chains--_and they were_! H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Arise, ye Greeks, and break your chains! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- For as to secrecy, Henry is quite the hero of an old romance, and glories in his chains. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I know not; I lost sensation, and chains and darkness were the only objects that pressed upon me. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Four brass chains support a slab of wood about 28 inches long by about 8 or ten inches in width. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- This class of bridges is usually constructed with chains or cables passing over towers, with the roadway suspended beneath. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It consisted of a large collection of bolts and screws which had been _cold-punched_, as well as of elevator and carrier chains, the links of which had been so punched. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- With the roadway and suspension chains attached, each tube weighs 1,100 tons. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The staple to which my chains were fixed, was more rusted than I or the villain Abbot had supposed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The bending of wire to form chains without welding the links has long been done for watch chains, etc. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The tin case and the dog chains were all she bought, and all she took away. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Cribbed and barred and moored by massive rusty chains, the prison-ship seemed in my young eyes to be ironed like the prisoners. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Roderigo rent his chains asunder manfully, and Hugo died in agonies of remorse and arsenic, with a wild, Ha! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
Editor: Noreen