A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages, and a Complete Alphabetical IndexG. Bell and sons, 1899 - 583 pages |
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... tail . — Ital . tell a story , he should tell it truly . It's a poor sport that is not worth the candle . If a man The best of the sport is to do the deed , and say nothing . That which will not be spun , let it not come between the ...
... tail . — Ital . tell a story , he should tell it truly . It's a poor sport that is not worth the candle . If a man The best of the sport is to do the deed , and say nothing . That which will not be spun , let it not come between the ...
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... tail . A snow year , a rich year . Anno di neve , anno di bene . Ital . A winter's thunder's a summer's wonder . Quand il tonne en Mars on peut dire helas . Fr. Drought never bred dearth in England . Whoso hath but a mouth , shall ne'er ...
... tail . A snow year , a rich year . Anno di neve , anno di bene . Ital . A winter's thunder's a summer's wonder . Quand il tonne en Mars on peut dire helas . Fr. Drought never bred dearth in England . Whoso hath but a mouth , shall ne'er ...
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... tail . Three women and a goose make a market . This is an Italian proverb . Tré donne è un occa , fan un mercato . A ship and a woman are ever repairing . A spaniel , a woman , and a walnut tree , The more they're beaten , the better ...
... tail . Three women and a goose make a market . This is an Italian proverb . Tré donne è un occa , fan un mercato . A ship and a woman are ever repairing . A spaniel , a woman , and a walnut tree , The more they're beaten , the better ...
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... tail , and swore it was there . That which one most forehets soonest comes to pass . Quod quisque vitet nusquam , homini satis cantum est in horas . Hor . Look to him , gaoler ; there's a frog in the stocks . He frets like gumm'd ...
... tail , and swore it was there . That which one most forehets soonest comes to pass . Quod quisque vitet nusquam , homini satis cantum est in horas . Hor . Look to him , gaoler ; there's a frog in the stocks . He frets like gumm'd ...
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... tail hangs out of his mouth . He had better put his horns in his pocket than wind them . There's but an hour in a day between a good house - wife and a bad . With a little more pains , she that flatters might do things neatly . He came ...
... tail hangs out of his mouth . He had better put his horns in his pocket than wind them . There's but an hour in a day between a good house - wife and a bad . With a little more pains , she that flatters might do things neatly . He came ...
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