Oranges
['ɔrɪndʒ]
Unserious Contents or Definition
Seeing a number of orange trees in a healthy condition, bearing ripe fruit, is a sign of health and prosperous surroundings. To eat oranges is signally bad. Sickness of friends or relatives will be a source of worry to you. Dissatisfaction will pervade the atmosphere in business circles. If they are fine and well-flavored, there will be a slight abatement of ill luck. A young woman is likely to lose her lover, if she dreams of eating oranges. If she dreams of seeing a fine one pitched up high, she will be discreet in choosing a husband from many lovers. To slip on an orange peel, foretells the death of a relative. To buy oranges at your wife's solicitation, and she eats them, denotes that unpleasant complications will resolve themselves into profit.
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Examples
- The Story in a Box of California Oranges For several hundred years oranges have grown in this country. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The oranges continue along these rollers until the space between the rollers has widened to the point where each particular size drops into a labeled bin. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Provision of oranges, apples, and nuts was also made. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The average car carries 400 boxes of oranges or lemons. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It gave you the face-ache to look at his apples, the stomach-ache to look at his oranges, the tooth-ache to look at his nuts. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Oranges are usually divided in grades into four classes called, in the order of their quality, Extra Choice, Choice, Standards and Culls. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Oranges and lemons are called citrus fruits on account of their content of citric acid. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- We got plenty of fresh oranges, lemons, figs, apricots, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The oranges then pass over automatic sizers--that is, V-shaped rollers revolving horizontally. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Soft, seedy biscuits, also, I bestow upon Miss Shepherd; and oranges innumerable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Lemons are handled throughout the processes in practically the same manner as oranges. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Near the foot of the bed stood a dish of oranges and a carafe of water. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Brown, soft-eyed children ran out from the quaint stone hovels to offer nosegays, or bunches of oranges still on the bough. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- He could cut oranges into such devices as none of us had an idea of. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- But really--to get hold of you and Esther--and to squeeze you like a couple of tender young Saint Michael's oranges! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A few oranges formed the greengrocer's whole concession to the vulgar mind. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The garden, with its golden apples (oranges), is gone now--no vestige of it remains. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- May they haf oranges and figs? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
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