Miller wrote: “To dream of thick, unsightly lips, signifies disagreeable encounters, hasty decision, and ill temper in…” Compare 3 historical dream books.
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Gustavus Hindman Miller
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted; Or, What’s in a Dream · Gutenberg #926; bibliography identifies the 1901 original and subsequent reprints
Lips · Heading 1207; source lines 14074–14086 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of thick, unsightly lips, signifies disagreeable encounters, hasty decision, and ill temper in the marriage relation.
Full, sweet, cherry lips, indicates harmony and affluence. To a lover, it augurs reciprocation in love, and fidelity.
Thin lips, signifies mastery of the most intricate subjects.
Sore, or swollen lips, denotes privations and unhealthful desires.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Lips · Heading 437; source line 3014 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
(See Mouth.)
A. H. Noe
The Witches' Dream Book; and Fortune Teller · New York, Henry J. Wehman, 1885
Lips · Dream section, heading 310; source lines 1242–1244 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that one hath red, handsome lips, is a sign that your friends enjoy their health. And to have them dry and chapped, the contrary.
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