Samples
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To dream of receiving merchandise samples, denotes improvement in your business. For a traveling man to lose his samples, implies he will find himself embarrassed in business affairs, or in trouble through love engagements. For a woman to dream that she is examining samples sent her, denotes she will have chances to vary her amusements.
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Examples
- Would it be said, These cases are rare, and no samples of general practice? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- One of these samples tested out poorer than a previous lot furnished from the same factory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For instance, at the time when he was making strenuous endeavors to obtain copper wire of high conductivity, strict laboratory tests were made of samples sent by manufacturers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Samples of pipes made by different ages and by different peoples would form a collection of wonderful art and ingenuity, second only to an exhibition of the means and methods of making them. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- There were samples of cheap clocks, and samples of cheap vases of flowers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- But it is a pity, lad, he added, that you did not hang these four samples of the unwashed. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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