Parents
['perənts] or ['pɛrənts]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. pl. Father and mother.
Typist: Rex
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see your parents looking cheerful while dreaming, denotes harmony and pleasant associates. If they appear to you after they are dead, it is a warning of approaching trouble, and you should be particular of your dealings. To see them while they are living, and they seem to be in your home and happy, denotes pleasant changes for you. To a young woman, this usually brings marriage and prosperity. If pale and attired in black, grave disappointments will harass you. To dream of seeing your parents looking robust and contented, denotes you are under fortunate environments; your business and love interests will flourish. If they appear indisposed or sad, you will find life's favors passing you by without recognition. See Father and Mother.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
One of the hardships of a minor's life.
Typed by Hiram
Examples
- He only told me a little about his parents and grandparents, and almost all in answer to my questions. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- I asked Caddy what had made their parents choose this profession for them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My parents were indulgent, and my companions amiable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Their notions relating to the duties of parents and children differ extremely from ours. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- I dare not tell your parents yet, but I think they would consent if they knew that we adored one another. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- You may as well say that the parents be the cause of a murder by the child, for without the parents the child would never have been begot. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Augustine and another brother were the only children of their parents. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- She had often vainly applied to her parents, as well as to her uncle, Lord Carysfort, who only wrote to load her with reproaches. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I heard that the table beer was a robbery of parents, and the pudding an imposition. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- To her parents she never talked about this matter, shrinking from baring her heart to them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Who are your parents? Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I love home, I am somewhat domestic, I love, dearly love my parents, and wish to improve the little talents God has given me. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- A love-child,' returned Betty Higden, dropping her voice; 'parents never known; found in the street. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- And you, Dejah Thoris, have parents and brothers and sisters? Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- Only persons, parents, and teachers, etc. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- In the first place, the parents were made accomplices to the deed, for it was only through their mediation it was brought about. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- His name was familiar to me, for many years ago my parents were acquainted with him, but they drifted apart. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Like to our first parents, the whole earth is before him, a wide desart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There she would behold the tomb of her parents, and the territory filled with recollections of her father's glory. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Devoid of parents, devoid of relations, devoid of flocks and herds, devoid of gold and silver and of precious stones. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My dear Watson, you as a medical man are continually gaining light as to the tendencies of a child by the study of the parents. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- He was the son of---- Poor but honest parents--that is all right--never mind the particulars --go on with the legend. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The parents at home had acquiesced in the arrangement, though, between ourselves, old Mr. Sedley had a feeling very much akin to contempt for his son. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- They rung in his ears; and he was proud of the sense of justice which made him go on in every kindness he could offer to her parents. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- They are taught what their parents or guardians judge it necessary or useful for them to learn, and they are taught nothing else. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The Lord High Chancellor, at his best, appeared so poor a substitute for the love and pride of parents. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And to the parents themselves, as to other animals, the sight of their young ones will prove a great incentive to bravery. Plato. The Republic.
- And this is ever the tone adopted by both parents. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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