Cherries
[tʃeri:z]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of cherries, denotes you will gain popularity by your amiability and unselfishness. To eat them, portends possession of some much desired object. To see green ones, indicates approaching good fortune.
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Examples
- The grapes or the cherries are sour--'hung too high. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- For God's sake, exclaimed George Lamb, with his mouth full of dried cherries, for God's sake, do not play the fool with me! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Cherries are sometimes bleached and then colored with the bright shades which under natural conditions indicate freshness. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- And the dried cherries too! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The mistress and maid had been in full feud the whole day, on the subject of preserving certain black cherries, hard as marbles, sour as sloes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Kent, sir--everybody knows Kent--apples, cherries, hops, and women. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
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