…To walk among and gather shells in your dream, denotes extravagance. Pleasure will leave you naught but exasperating regrets and memories. See Mussels and Oysters….

To see oyster shells in your dreams, denotes that you will be frustrated in your attempt to secure the fortune of another.

Bad news from afar; difficulties. 76.

…or earnings, depending on the quantity one sees in his dream. Eating sweet almond in a dream means profits, though to be earned with a fight. Plucking almond from a tree in a dream means earning money from a niggardly person with a fight. An almond tree in a dream also represents one who is stingy with people, though generous with his wife and children. Eating sweet almond in a dream also means tasting the sweetness of one’s faith. Bitter almond in a dream means truth. Eating almond in a dream means money and a good health. An almond tree also represents a stranger. Seeing oneself showered with almond shells in a dream means receiving a new garment. Dry almond in a dream means sorrow, rage and clamor. Eating a leaf from an almond tree in a dream means receiving money from someone in authority and enjoying the gift….

Dreaming of bomb shells, foretells anger and disputes, ending in law suits. Many displeasing incident{s?} follow this dream.

…Dreaming that you’re eating oysters indicates the impulses and sexual satisfaction. On the other hand, it means that you’re losing strength and your senses by pursuing pleasures and indulgences for yourself. Seeing a plate of oysters in a dream symbolizes beauty, humility, wealth and wisdom. Seeing oyster shells in a dream means that you’re frustrated on your temptation to secure your fortune and on how to spend money….

Dreaming of eating oysters suggests that the dreamer is losing the sense of morality due to engaging in activities that might be illegal. Dreaming of trading with oysters indicates that the dreamer’s unscrupulousness makes the dreamer search for illicit love affairs. Dreaming of only the oyster shells hints future failures and significant losses when trying to deprive others from things that belong to them.

…— so beautiful” that I thought I should never tire looking at her. Pooh! Lil, you needn’t be jealous, old girl! She is none of my sort, anyhow.”Now!” she exclaimed with a queer kind of snarl, as she took off the glove of her left hand so as to show me the tell-tale band of gold on the third finger — ” now, Mr. Bailey, are you satisfied ? There is nothing of the missionary about me, is there?” And when I saw the long, pointed nails, pink and polished like sea-shells, just as I’ve always been told they do them at the lady-barber’s, I coughed. Observe my astuteness, Lil. I saw now that she was no prig from a church or chapel, but a member of what folks call “The Smart Set.” Yet how did she know Mr. Towell, and what brought her here? Was she one of us…