Siege
A siege — surrounded and pressed by encircling force — often touches serious drawbacks to enjoyment that you'll finally surmount, gaining profit from seeming disappointments. The dream may ask where you feel hemmed in on all sides, and whether you can hold out, trusting that what looks like defeat may turn, in the end, to gain.
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These are the entries the historical dream-books record for siege, in their own words. They are period voices, not predictions, and they do not always agree with one another.
Gustavus Hindman Miller, 1901
For a young woman to dream that she is in a siege, and sees cavalry around her, denotes that she will have serious drawbacks to enjoyments, but will surmount them finally, and receive much pleasure and profit from seeming disappointments.