Stockings
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To dream of stockings, denotes that you will derive pleasure from dissolute companionship. For a young woman to see her stockings ragged, or worn, foretells that she will be guilty of unwise, if not immoral conduct. To dream that she puts on fancy stockings, she will be fond of the attention of men, and she should be careful to whom she shows preference. If white ones appear to be on her feet, she is threatened with woeful disappointment or illness. See Knitting.
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Woman's only savings for A Rainy Day.
Editor: Michel
Examples
- I had on wool stockings but Passini wore puttees. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- She was dressed in blue, with woollen yellow stockings, like the Bluecoat boys. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They wore a good deal of hair, not very neatly turned up behind, and were rather untidy about the shoes and stockings. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- You see nothing extraordinary in the stockings, _as_ stockings, I trust, Sir? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I'm being scorched in the legs, which indeed is testified to the noses of all present by the smell of his worsted stockings. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But, as princes seldom get their meat hot, my legs were not scalded, only my stockings and breeches in a sad condition. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her blue, bright dress fluttered in the wind, her thick scarlet stockings were brilliant above the whiteness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I just ran in, she said, with these little stockings for the boy,--three pair, nice, warm woollen ones. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- He wore very short trousers, and black cotton stockings, which, like the rest of his apparel, were particularly rusty. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We should in the present times consider this as a very high price for a pair of stockings to a servant of the poorest and lowest order. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- They're yours, there--' And with trembling, excited hands she put the coveted stockings under Ursula's pillow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Topsy hesitated; but, on a second order, pulled out of her bosom a little parcel done up in the foot of one of her own old stockings. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I drew off my shoes, stockings, and breeches. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Her stockings always disconcerted him, the pale-yellow stockings and the heavy heavy black shoes. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He glided in, in his stockings, and held the door closed, while he spoke in a whisper. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Of these I also made very tolerable stockings. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- They wear no shoes and stockings. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fancy stockings, with numerous colours blended, are so knit, and if the yarn holds out a mile of stockings may be thus knit, without a break and without an attendant. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I should like to know what Charlotte says about it as she sits darning her cotton stockings on a Saturday night. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Even to the mending of your brothers' stockings and the making of sheets? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The first person that wore stockings in England is said to have been Queen Elizabeth. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Stockings, in many parts of Scotland, are knit much cheaper than they can anywhere be wrought upon the loom. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She does her own hair, and I am teaching her to make buttonholes and mend her stockings. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Mine is Mivins,' said the man in the stockings. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Please send me my desk and some CLOTHS--I'm in pumps and a white tye (something like Miss M's stockings)--I've seventy in it. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Gudrun came to Ursula's bedroom with three pairs of the coloured stockings for which she was notorious, and she threw them on the bed. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gudrun was all scarlet and royal blue--a scarlet jersey and cap, and a royal blue skirt and stockings. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He still wore knee-breeches, and dark cotton stockings on his nether limbs; but they were not _the_ breeches. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She was aware of her grass-green stockings, her large grass-green velour hat, her full soft coat, of a strong blue colour. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Editor: Michel