Vineyard
['vɪnjɑːd;-jəd] or ['vɪnjɚd]
Definition
(n.) An inclosure or yard for grapevines; a plantation of vines producing grapes.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of a vineyard, denotes favorable speculations and auspicious love-making. To visit a vineyard which is not well-kept and filled with bad odors, denotes disappointment will overshadow your most sanguine anticipations.
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Examples
- The goings on of Aspasia were of course a fruitful vineyard for the inventions of the street. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The whole weight of the tax, therefore, would fall upon the rent and profit; properly upon the rent of the vineyard. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- But whether it was advantageous to plant a new vineyard, was a matter of dispute among the ancient Italian husbandmen, as we learn from Columella. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- A field overgrown with briars and brambles, may frequently produce as great a quantity of vegetables as the best cultivated vineyard or corn field. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Near him lived a man by the name of Naboth, who had a vineyard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So Ahab seized the vineyard, and went into it to possess it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Then Jezebel came and told the King, and said, Behold, Naboth is no more--rise up and seize the vineyard. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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.
- The peninsula of Italy was not then the smiling land of vineyards and olive orchards it has since become. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- She was a manufacturer--she made fine linen and sold it; she was an agriculturist--she bought estates and planted vineyards. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Britain need envy neither the vineyards of France, nor the olive plantations of Italy. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And he will take the tenth of your seed, and of your vineyards, and give to his officers, and to his servants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The vineyards were thin and bare-branched too and all the country wet and brown and dead with the autumn. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Triangles and rectangles cease to suggest meadows, or vineyards, or any definite imagery of that sort, and are discussed in their abstract relationship. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Oh, my love, we went to the vineyards, And there beheld bunches of purple wine fruit, Full of the milk of earth our mother. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The sugar colonies possessed by the European nations in the West Indies may be compared to those precious vineyards. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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