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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
Spy-glass · Heading 1905; source lines 21122–21130 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that you are looking through a spy-glass, denotes that changes will soon occur to your disadvantage.
To see a broken or imperfect one, foretells unhappy dissensions and loss of friends.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Spy-Glass · Heading 747; source line 4643 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of looking through one of these instruments and observing objects at a distance, is a sign that you will enlarge your possessions; if you are a farmer, you will add to your farm; if a man of business, enlarge your business, &c.; but to a poor devil who hasn’t got much of anything, it predicts that he will increase his family for the want of something else to enlarge.
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