Miller wrote: “To dream of varnishing anything, denotes that you will seek to win distinction by fraudulent means.” Compare 2 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
Varnishing · Heading 2102; source lines 23104–23112 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream of varnishing anything, denotes that you will seek to win distinction by fraudulent means.
To see others varnishing, foretells that you are threatened with danger from the endeavor of friends to add to their own possessions.
Felix Fontaine
The Golden Wheel Dream-book and Fortune-teller · 1862
Varnishing · Heading 825; source line 5076 · Text transcription
Original source (English)
To dream that your house or furniture is being, or has been, newly varnished, is a sign of a funeral; but if you imagine that you are varnishing anything, it merely foretells a loss with out a death.
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