Worms
[wə:mz,vɔ:rms]
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To dream of worms, denotes that you will be oppressed by the low intriguing of disreputable persons. For a young woman to dream they crawl on her, foretells that her aspirations will always tend to the material. If she kills or throws them off, she will shake loose from the material lethargy and seek to live in morality and spirituality. To use them in your dreams as fish bait, foretells that by your ingenuity you will use your enemies to good advantage.
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Examples
- The worms have eaten the cloth a good deal--there's the stain which Sir Pitt--ha! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He summoned an assembly or diet of the empire at Worms on the Rhine. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They hang on to their old positions when the position is over-past, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Was he really so superior, and would he crush the poor worms which dared not aspire to his perfections? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The worms would worry her--not eat her--she is so worn away. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- They were not glow-worms; they were too high. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- And poor Worcester perhaps might soon be numbered with the dead, food for worms! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Leucodore, clione and other borers, parasitic or domiciliary worms work into the shell, and instinctively the protecting nacreous fluid envelops the intruder. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Why does fate play such tricks with poor, helpless worms? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- The addition of 1 ounce of powdered colocynth to the above amount will effectually banish all insects and worms from the walls where the paper is pasted. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Turning for a brief space to animals: various terrestrial species are hermaphrodites, such as the land-mollusca and earth-worms; but these all pair. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- There is no fungus growth on the redwoods neither are the redwoods attacked by boring worms or other insects so common to other species of wood. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The big fish of the sea eat the little fish, the little fish the small fry, and these in turn live upon worms and animalcula, and so on all the way down to protoplasm. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In another form of steam elevator the drums are turned in opposite directions, by right and left worms driven by a belt. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- Men must die, and worms will eat them. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
Edited by Emily