Walking
['wɔkɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Walk
(-) a. & n. from Walk, v.
Typist: Willard
Definition
n. the act or process of fulling cloth.—n. Walk′mill a fulling-mill.
Typist: Martha
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of walking through rough brier, entangled paths, denotes that you will be much distressed over your business complications, and disagreeable misunderstandings will produce coldness and indifference. To walk in pleasant places, you will be the possessor of fortune and favor. To walk in the night brings misadventure, and unavailing struggle for contentment. For a young woman to find herself walking rapidly in her dreams, denotes that she will inherit some property, and will possess a much desired object. See Wading.
Checker: Roy
Examples
- As a walking companion, Emma had very early foreseen how useful she might find her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- And is that why you would put tables and chairs upon them, and have people walking over them with heavy boots? Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- His strength returned, and a month after the visit of Thomasin he might have been seen walking about the garden. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- On another occasion when reconnoitring thus she beheld two female figures walking in the vale. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I opened the door; and at first looked down, to my amazement, on nothing but a great umbrella that appeared to be walking about of itself. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Hearing voices on the terrace below, I looked out of window, and saw the two gentlemen walking up and down together. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Nothing would be resolved by merely walking, walking away. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I likewise broke my right shin against the shell of a snail, which I happened to stumble over, as I was walking alone and thinking on poor England. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The senior partner took the coach, and the junior partner took his walking-stick. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- No sleep was there: the inmate was walking restlessly from wall to wall; and again and again he sighed while I listened. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Emanuel, he thinks, walking in the alley. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I should not mind walking half the way. Jane Austen. Emma.
- It was not Mr. Rushworth, however, but Edmund, who then appeared walking towards them with Mrs. Grant. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- What fancy takes you, then, for walking about in the night? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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