Grapes
[ɡreɪps]
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To eat grapes in your dream, you will be hardened with many cares; but if you only see them hanging in profuseness among the leaves, you will soon attain to eminent positions and will be able to impart happiness to others. For a young woman, this dream is one of bright promise. She will have her most ardent wish gratified. To dream of riding on horseback and passing musca-dine bushes and gathering and eating some of its fruit, denotes profitable employment and the realization of great desires. If there arises in your mind a question of the poisonous quality of the fruit you are eating, there will come doubts and fears of success, but they will gradually cease to worry you.
Typist: Michael
Examples
- Now, Handel, I am quite free from the flavor of sour grapes, upon my soul and honor! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Grapes, split and crushed under foot, lay about everywhere. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I have brought you some grapes; can you taste one? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Wild yeast settles on the skin of grapes and apples, but since it does not have access to the fruit juices within, it remains inactive very much as a seed does before it is planted. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Margaret love, only taste these grapes! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- The air there was charged with the scent of gathered grapes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Twas in the Bunch of Grapes, where, indeed, you have a delight to sit, have you not? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Afterwards a number of maidens, with vine-leaf-decorated amphoras of wine, baskets of figs, and bunches of grapes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He handed us the grapes, repeating in his radiant way, He sings! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The grapes or the cherries are sour--'hung too high. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Three months (you must not come for less) of this delicious climate--all sunshine, and grapes as common as blackberries, would quite cure her. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I only felt that it was not right to steal grapes. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fine grapes used to grow in the islands, and an excellent wine was made and exported. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The only things to be seen not fixedly staring and glaring were the vines drooping under their load of grapes. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- They were flowing for the fertilization of the land where grapes are gathered from thorns, and figs from thistles. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Twice we entered and stole grapes, and the second time somebody shouted at us from some invisible place. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- We speculated in grapes no more on that side of Athens. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I reckon, I've heerd my mother read out a text, The fathers have eaten sour grapes and th' children's teeth are set on edge. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- He no more gathers grapes from thorns or figs from thistles than older men did in old times. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Sweet peaches, apples, grapes, contain a moderate amount of sugar; watermelons, pears, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Like my grapes which the spies bore out of the Promised Land, I have got every thing in Palestine on too large a scale. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- At which his mother merely pursed her lips under the lace veil that hung down from her grey velvet bonnet trimmed with frosted grapes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The grapes are most excellent to this day, but the bunches are not as large as those in the pictures. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I will pay you a good price for it, as the grapes of Melnos are much thought of at Khanea. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Hamburg grapes. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I was surprised and hurt when I saw them, because those colossal bunches of grapes were one of my most cherished juvenile traditions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But them grapes are sour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- When that was done, the basket, which was filled with grapes and other fruit, was unpacked, and all its contents were quietly put away. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Now I had grapes enough for a dozen, but then Jackson was all swollen up with courage, too, and he was obliged to enter a vineyard presently. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- He liked grapes very much. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Michael