…or a ‘Tec?”I see I must explain myself,” she said, pulling out a chair from the table and sitting down.”Though I’m living in a big house in Park Lane, Mr. Bailey, I’m a poor woman. My husband has all the money, and not I.” “That doesn’t sound quite fair, ma’am,” I muttered, not knowing exactly what other remark to make.”Fair! Of course it isn’t fair!” she snapped. “Nothing is fair, is it? But come, I’m not here to expatiate on injustice. Have you ever been hard up, Mr. Bailey? You have. Good! Then you can sympathise with me. I am hard up— so hard up that I am anxious to sell my diamonds — a wedding present from my husband — and, being a wedding present and positively the only present he has ever given me, you can understand my difficulty. In short, I want to sell it, but dare…

…in a dream means praiseworthiness and acquiring two types of knowledge. Seeing what is inside one’s mouth in a dream means exposing one’s ills. Biting on one’s tongue in a dream means regret. Watching one’s tongue in a dream means protecting oneself from pitfalls. Carrying one’s tongue by hand in a dream means receiving indemnity for bodily injury or receiving blood money. If one sees his throat blocked in such a way that he could not speak in a dream, it denotes his stinginess toward his own family. If one sees one of his limbs speaking against him in a dream, it means that someone will report him to the authorities or become a witness against him in court. If one sees himself in a dream riding over the shoulders of his enemy, it means that he will commit a wrongdoing or a shameful act. If there is no enmity…

(bot.) In a dream, a narcissus flower represents a woman. A garland of narcissus in a dream represents a short lived marriage. If an unmarried woman sees herself carrying a coronet of narcissus in a dream, it means a short lived marriage that will end either in divorce or in the death of her husband. Blooming narcissus in a dream represents a son. A bouquet of narcissus in a dream means the death of a son. Seeing the narcissus flower in a dream also means happiness, money, gold, or silver. The narcissus flower in a dream also signifies longevity or gray hair. (Also see Distilled water)

…(Height | Size) To see oneself taller than usual in a dream means increase in knowledge and wealth. If a man of authority sees that, it means expansion of his power. If he is a merchant, it means business prosperity. If one sees himself extremely tall and beyond the tallest human being in a dream, it means the nearing of his death, or it could mean his downfall. It is ominous for a tall person to see himself short in a dream, for it also denotes falling in rank, losing respect, or nearing one’s death. Even seeing oneself shorter in a dream means death. If one sees his figure taller in a dream, it means that his authority will expand and he will win victory over his enemies. Tallness of one’s figure in a dream also denotes longevity. If a short person sees himself tall in a dream, it…

…suggest that your plans, intentions or projects will fail. If there’s broken glass in the dream, it almost always means that we’ll receive sad news. Dreaming about receiving cut glass objects shows the upcoming success, and in some cases the honor if you’re involved in artistic activities. Giving cut glass objects to others means self-humiliation which will lead to failure. Dreaming of looking through a glass at people who are working suggest that you’ll get the job or business you were seeking, but if the glass seems dull, dirty, etc., your chances will decrease. Dreaming of handling flat glass, like stained glass, suggest that you’re involved in possibly unlawful affairs or businesses with a risk of loss. If in the dream the glass breaks, then it’s a warning for short-term losses. Dreaming of oneself talking to someone through a glass, indicates serious impediments in order to achieve short-term goals….

…(Moth | Silkworm) In a dream, a butterfly signifies ignorance, lack of experience with people, or inexperience with the proper protocol. A butterfly in a dream also could signify love and sacrificing one’s life for others. A butterfly in a dream also represents fire worshipers, fear, or a weak enemy who speaks big words. If a farmer sees butterflies in his dream, it means hardships and lack of work, or consenting to evil by associating with evil companions, or befriending vile women. A silkworm in a dream represents the best of people who spend in charity from their best and who curtail their evil, or it could represent children who live a short life in this world, or people who leave a sizeable estate for their posterity. A silkworm, or a butterfly in a dream also could signify a short life, the near end of one’s life, a miller,…

…what he maybe expecting to receive. Eating the thin variety of rock baked bread in a dream means increase in one’s earnings. A thin loaf of bread in a dream also could mean a short life. Holding two loaves of bread in a dream means marrying two sisters, one after the other. Eating simultaneously from two loaves of bread, one in each hand in a dream also means a marriage to two sisters. Eating pretzels in a dream means adopting a good health diet. Stale bread in a dream means inexpensive or shoddy prices. Dough in a dream means debts or loans. A flying loaf of bread with two wings means high prices. Eating a flat loaf of bread, or a loaf of pita bread in a dream means easy living or prosperity. Eating a bun in a dream denotes a decent financial stability. In a dream, a loaf of…

…You cannot clearly distinguish the difference between different types of schools in your dreams. To dream that you’re visiting a school symbolizes a self-reproach for having missed valuable opportunities to better yourself. To dream that you’re teaching a subject in a school insinuates that you have intellectual ambitions that you’ve not been able to develop. To dream that a school has honored you symbolizes upcoming success due to your intellectual efforts, the higher the grade the better. To dream that you’re in a high level school, either as a visitor or as a student, suggests that you’ll soon reach your goals and will receive honors. To dream that you’re visiting the school where you studied as a child, suggests an intimate feeling of loss regarding your life and your current activities. To dream that you’ve just returned from visiting the school where you completed your studies indicates that you…

…To dream you are in a large market, where all hinds of meats and vegetables are sold, is a sign you will want monkey that it will be difficult and perhaps impossible to raise; it is a bad sign for tradesmen and others who have notes to pay. Lucky lottery dream numbers – 31, 9….

…Dreaming of hearing notes from a flute, signifies a pleasant meeting with friends from a distance, and profitable engagements. For a young woman Dreaming of playing a flute, denotes that she will fall in love because of her lover’s engaging manners….

Dreaming that you hear the melancholic notes of a harp, indicates some things, that you have been enjoying (business, entertainment, pleasure, trips or just good luck), are coming to an end. Dreaming of a broken harp indicates the end of joy, for example, between lovers, perhaps a painful and difficult illness, either of your own or of family member; it may also mean making some mistakes in your political or social relationships. Dreaming of playing a harp indicates that the dreamer is overrated, so he should be a bit more humble, since that can lead to serious failures and frustrations.

…To see vacant tellers, foretells business losses. Giving out gold money, denotes carelessness | receiving it, great gain and prosperity. To see silver and bank-notes accumulated, increase of honor and fortune. You will enjoy the highest respect of all classes….

(Any tropical bird of the Coraciidae family | Eurasian roller | Canary that rolls or trills its notes.) In a dream, a roller represents a beautiful and rich woman.

…Dreaming that you are listening to the harmonious notes of the nightingale, foretells a pleasing existence, and prosperous and healthy surroundings. This is a most favorable dream to lovers, and parents. To see nightingales silent, foretells slight misunderstandings among friends….

…To hear singing in your dreams, betokens a cheerful spirit and happy companions. You are soon to have promising news from the absent. If you are singing while everything around you gives promise of happiness, jealousy will insinuate a sense of insincerity into your joyousness. If there are notes of sadness in the song, you will be unpleasantly surprised at the turn your affairs will take. Ribald songs, signifies gruesome and extravagant waste….

To dream of white clouds, is a sign of prosperity, clouds mounting high from the earth, de- notes voyages and return to the absent and revealing of secrets. Clouds red and inflamed, show an ill issue of affairs; to dream of smoky, or obscure clouds, shows an ill time, or anger.

Ask for grace indicates that you will benefit from the favors of an influential person. To grant grace notes that past mistake will have no consequences.

…To dream about the nativity indicates that you’ve made a startling discovery about your abilities. It also notes the importance between spiritual enlightenment and inner strength, with your material wealth….

Dreaming you see an olive tree de- notes peace, delight, concord, and fruition of his desires.

Dreaming that you hear the shrill startling notes of the screech-owl, denotes that you will be shocked with news of the desperate illness, or death of some dear friend.

If you dream of having horns on your head, it de- notes grandeur. If you see a man with horns on his head, he is in danger of loss of his person and estate.

Dreaming of a piano indicates that soon the dreamer will attend a party. If there’s upbeat music at this party, it signifies that there’s upcoming success. If the notes are discordant, it suggests that the dreamer’s affairs are not doing well. Sad music announces sadness and frustration in the immediate future. Dreaming of a broken or unusable piano suggests that the dreamer is using outdated methods to handle business, which is why he or she is losing opportunities and profits.

To dream about dancing or listening to a waltz, indicates that the last moments of happiness are going away. The nostalgia will be preserved for a long time. To be in a dance with clothes from the beginnings of the past century, with soft, romantic music, waltzes for example, means that you are living very restlessly and mental and emotional balance is yearned.

If you are dancing the maypole dance, then it shows your happiness in which you are saying good bye to old days and welcoming the new one. The maypole dance could also indicate the manhood and its sexual factors.

…To feel as if someone were tickling the bottom of your feet, could indicate some flatterers or on the opposite the parasites. See them bathed with healing herbs or essential perfumes symbolizes honors and joys from those you are surrounded by. Bathe them yourself in the same way, means fatigue, vexations, unpleasant affections, consumption. Wash in a basin or other vase your feet means gluttony. To kiss the foot of someone, repentance, humiliation, change in behavior. Have the feet damaged, trouble and disappointments. Have light feet, or make some of the dancing: joy, friendship and overall happiness. Feet that burns is the most disastrous omen that we can imagine, because it signifies some serious sickness. Have sore feet, solace beneath trouble and/or success in business. Have dirty and infected feet is interpreted as tribulation, shameful affairs. Have feet bitten by a dangerous and/or poisonous snake or other reptile, jealousy…

…(Delivering water) In a dream, a water carrier represents a man of piety and trueness, because he practices the best of deeds and particularly if he does not receive a wage for his delivery in the dream. If one sees himself filling a bottle of water and delivering it to a house, it represents his earnings. A water carrier in a dream also represents a gnostic who heals the illness of people’s hearts with his knowledge, love and wisdom. A water carrier in a dream also represents one who can go near high ranking people. He also represents one who delivers people’s belongings to their hands. A water carrier in a dream also may denote evil, burdens, fights, dancing, or whirling. If a water carrier delivers someone a glass of water in a dream and receives money for it, it represents a responsibility or a burden he will carry,…

…Wandering through a palace and noting its grandeur, signifies that your prospects are growing brighter and you will assume new dignity. To see and hear fine ladies and men dancing and conversing, denotes that you will engage in profitable and pleasing associations. For a young woman of moderate means Dreaming that she is a participant in the entertainment, and of equal social standing with others, is a sign of her advancement through marriage, or the generosity of relatives. This is often a very deceitful and misleading dream to the young woman of humble circumstances | as it is generally induced in such cases by the unhealthy day dreams of her idle, empty brain. She should strive after this dream, to live by honest work, and restrain deceitful ambition by observing the fireside counsels of mother, and friends. See Opulence….

Dreaming of an entertainment where there is music and dancing, you will have pleasant tidings of the absent, and enjoy health and prosperity. To the young, this is a dream of many and varied pleasures and the high regard of friends.

…In a dream, a cowboy represents flow of profits from one’s business, or it may mean dancing or whirling….

To dream of dancing at a ball, denotes that you will be addressed by a lover, the prospect will be a momentary pleasure, and he will prove a gay deceiver.

…If a sick person sees himself drinking wine in a dream, it means that he will receive the right medicine and recover from his illness. Drinking wine in a dream also means losing one’s senses, or it could denote an evil happening. Drinking wine in the company of mentally disturbed people along with sedatives, drugs, music, dancing, farce, or ridiculous actions in a dream means that one will brake his pledge of allegiance to his guardian or ruler, deny his covenant to his Lord, or that he may start a war against his ruler. If a scholar sees himself drinking wine in a dream, it means that his knowledge will grow. If it is grape wine in the dream, it means that he will eat grapes outside of their season, or that he may require a drug preparation as a cure for an ailment, or it could mean earning lawful…

See dancing means infirmities. Dance yourself with your own will means success in enterprises. When you dance in the presence of a sick or decrepit person then it shows that your life will bring calamities.

Dreaming about an entertainment filled with music and dancing, denotes abundance of health and prosperity. It is indication of pleasant notifications of relationship.

Dream that you are dancing a jig, generally indicates some kind of an invitation.

…In a dream, a filter represents the essence of one’s faith and knowledge. A filter in a dream also could mean music, taverns, dancing or insolence. A filter in a dream also represents a man who speaks only the truth and who does not allow for impurities to seep into his life. (Also see Sieve)…

…Seeing a drum in a dream means false news. Dancing on the drumbeat in a dream means that a calamity will befall that house. If one sees himself turned into a drum in a dream, it means that he is experiencing confused dreams. A one sided tambourine represents a woman with many faults. Women’s drums in a dream mean a wild business, an esoteric commerce, selling gadgets, hideous- ness, or a stingy woman with many enemies. Hearing the sound of drums in a parade in a dream means false news. Hearing the drumbeat of an auctioneer’s drum, a herald, or a harbinger in dream means death. It is also said that hearing the drumbeat of a procession represents someone who is grateful to his Lord under all circumstances. The sound of pilgrims’ drums in a dream represents a wise man and a spiritual guide. (Also see Drummer | Tambourine)…

A very satisfactory omen, if beautiful and gaily-dressed people are dancing to the strains of entrancing music. If you feel gloomy and distressed at the inattention of others, a death in the family may be expected soon.

…divine chastisement for people’s sins. If one sees the earth moving under his feet in a dream, then it represents one’s striving and pursuit of his business needs or livelihood. An earthquake in a dream also represents exposing secrets, hearing bad news, a general scare, public disturbances, the surfacing of new diseases. If one sees the walls crumbling and caving in a dream, it means his death. Seeing an earthquake in an arable land in a dream means fertility or a good harvest. An earthquake in a dream also may mean travels, dancing, abstraction of business or having an argument with one’s family. If the destruc- tion hits the buildings in urban areas in the dream, it means business growth for construction workers, contractors or related industries. Seeing an earthquake hitting a fruit farm in a dream means a good harvest. If the quake takes place during the month of…

…thereafter. Otherwise, if he loses in the dream, it means that his illness has reached its peak. A cat or a tomcat in a dream also represent reckoning, estrangement of one’s wife, her roughness with her husband, or they could represent ill behaved children with their parents, fights, theft, adultery, lack of loyalty, eavesdropping, taunting, roaring, clamor, a bastard son, a foundling or an orphan. On the other hand, a cat in a dream could represent a toadying person, dancing, being playful and kind, though awaiting to jump at the first opportunity to spoil others’ peace. If the cat, the tomcat and the mouse, or the lamb and the wolf become friends in the dream, it means hypocrisy, affectation and loss of moral standards. A civet cat in a dream represents a man who may have a suspicious look, though his character and conduct are exemplary. (Also see Cat)…

(Hoofer | Show | Soft-shoe dancer) A hoofer in a dream represents a man in trouble if he dances for himself. If so, his parable is like that of seeds pupping on top of a fire. If a hoofer dances for someone, then the host will be struck by a calamity that will affect both of them. (Also see Dancing)