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Miller wrote: “To dream of associating with the nobility, denotes that your aspirations are not of the right nature, as…” 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

Nobility · Heading 1394; source lines 15955–15965 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of associating with the nobility, denotes that your aspirations are not of the right nature, as you prefer show and pleasures to the higher development of the mind.

For a young woman to dream of the nobility, foretells that she will choose a lover for his outward appearance, instead of wisely accepting the man of merit for her protector.

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Felix Fontaine

The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862

Nobility · Heading 510; source line 3391 · Text transcription

Original source (English)

Should anybody be so foolish as to dream that they are created a Duke, an Earl, or that they have conferred upon them any patent of nobility, it is a sign of shiftlessness and poverty. If a girl dreams that a lord is in love with her, she will be apt to marry a shiftless and needy fellow.

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Katherine Taylor Craig

The Fabric of Dreams: Dream Lore and Dream Interpretation, Ancient and Modern · New York, E. P. Dutton & Company, 1918; original US edition

Nobility · Printed p. 237; NLM OCR lines 11064–11066 · OCR transcription

Original source (English)

To dream of fraternizing with them, signifies social downfall (Gypsy).

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